2015-03-03 Attachment 1 it Item 5 Planning & Organisation Agenda Community Profile Report

Noosa Coommunity Profile
Final Rep
        port A


4.2       Househ
               hold Com
                      mposition
                              n
           In line with
                    w    the high
                                h average peersons per household
                                                        h         in Cooroibah, the locality reported
            the highhest proportion of multip           ouseholds5 (3
                                            ple family ho           3.4%) and t he lowest prroportion
            of lone person
                    p       households (13.55%).
           In line with
                    w    lower av
                                verage perso
                                           ons per hous
                                                      seholds, loca
                                                                  alities reportting high pro
                                                                                            oportions
            of lone person households werre Tewantin (29.0% of all househo     olds), Noosaville and
            Doonan (28.1%) an  nd Noosa Heaads (25.6%)).

          Figure 4.3:: Household Composition
                                           n, Localities,, 2011
                                              90%
                                                    One family households   Multiple family hou
                                                                                              useholds
          Proportion of Total Dewllings (%)




                                              80%   Group housseholds       Lone person house eholds

                                              70%

                                              60%

                                              50%

                                              40%

                                              30%

                                              20%

                                              10%

                                              0%




          Source: ABS (2011a)

           The Shire reported a higher prroportion of lone person          ds (25.2%) than the
                                                                  n household
            SEQ Reggion (22.4%
                             %) and the Sttate (22.8%            ber of occup ied private dwellings
                                                      %). The numb                        d
            with usu
                   ually one res
                               sident has m
                                          more than doubled betw ween 1991 aand 2011 (1,,802 and
            4,661 re
                   espectively) (Noosa Shirre Council, 2014a).
                                                       2
           The oth
                  her three ho
                             ousehold com
                                        mposition caategories we
                                                               ere slightly lower for the Shire
            when co
                  ompared to the
                             t   SEQ Reggion and the State.




          '5 ‘Multiple family householdss’ are defined bby the ABS as any
                                                                       a   household consisting of two
                                                                                                     o or more families present
          on census night. Whereas ‘group
                                        ‘       househo olds’ are defined as a household consisting oof two or moree unrelated
          people where  e all persons arre aged 15 yea  ars and over. There
                                                                       T     are no re
                                                                                     eported couple relationships, parent-child
                                                                                                                   p
          relationships or other blood relationships
                                        r             in these households.




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