2017-04-11 P&E Agenda Attachment 1 to Item 1 Housing Needs Assessment

Table 5. Dwelling Type, Occupied Residents, Noosa Shire, SEQ and Queensland, 2011

Dwelling Type                        Noosa Shire           South East              Queensland
                                                           Queensland

Separate House                      15,190 (79.5%)             76.1%                  78.5%

Semi-Detached                        1,858 (9.7%)              10.1%                   8.4%

Attached                             1,790 (9.4%)              12.8%                  11.7%

Other Dwelling Type                   267 (1.4%)               0.9%                    1.3%

Total Dwellings                     19,111 (100%)              100%                   100%

Notes: Excluding visitor only households. Excluding dwellings unoccupied on Census night.
Source: ABS 2013a;

3.1.3    Household Type by Dwelling Type
Of the 19,111 dwellings occupied by residents in Noosa Shire, 6,492 dwellings were occupied by
couples without children (34.0%), 4,847 dwellings were occupied by couples with children (25.4%),
4,665 were occupied by lone person households (24.4%), and 2,192 were occupied by one parent
families (11.5%) (Table 6). A small number and proportion of dwellings were occupied by group
households (793, 4.1%) and other family types (120, 0.6%).

Noosa Shire had a higher proportion of lone person households (24.4%) than the SEQ Region
(22.4%) and Queensland (22.8%). The other three household composition categories were slightly
lower for Noosa Shire when compared to the SEQ Region and the State. At least 58.4% of all
occupied dwellings in Noosa Shire were usually occupied by one person living alone, or a couple.

A high proportion of couples with children lived in separate houses (93.9%), followed by couples
without children (83.3%), one parent families (82.3%), group households (73.5%), other family
types (70.0%) and lone person households (59.2%).

Of all of the attached dwellings in Noosa Shire, 50.00% were occupied by lone person
households, and 23.6% by couples without children. Of the semi-detached dwellings, 46.4% were
occupied by lone person households, and 31.9% by couples without children. Of the separate
houses, 35.6% were occupied by couples without children, and 30.0% by couples with children.




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