2018-08-07 Planning & Environment Committee Agenda

PLANNING & ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                   7 AUGUST 2018


3.    Families and Households
In 2016 Noosa Shire had some 20,143 households (in occupied private dwellings – excluding
visitor only households). The number was up from 19,133 in 2011 and 17,444 in 2006.
The Average household size in 2016 was 2.4 persons. At its highest the rate was 2.6 for Noosa
Hinterland and lowest was 2.1 in Noosaville.
Unitywater’s DMaTT has broken 2016 ABS Census data down into different rates for attached
and detached dwelling types, as shown in Table 3
                    Table 3 Occupancy Rate for various SA2s through Noosa Shire

                                          Attached Dwelling Occupancy   Detached Dwelling
SA2                                       Rate                          Occupancy Rate
Noosa Hinterland                          1.77                          2.64
Tewantin                                  1.55                          2.53
Noosaville                                1.66                          2.51
Noosa Heads                               1.81                          2.41
Sunshine Beach                            1.92                          2.66
Peregian Beach – Marcus Beach             1.76                          2.57


At 2016 census there were 4,954 lone person households in Noosa Shire (up from 4,200 ten
years earlier). While lone person households were some 24.6% for the Shire the rate for
Noosaville was close to 30% and as low as 19.5% in Noosa Hinterland. 8,443 households in
Noosa Shire were two person households.
In 2016 some 14,423 households identified as families, over half of which were families with two
people usually resident. 49.2% of families were “couple families with no children” (specifically
meaning no children living in that dwelling).
At 74.6%, households in the hinterland were most likely to be a one family household. The rate
was 67% for Noosaville, making it the lowest.
Couple families with children made up 34.5% of families in Noosa Shire with the figure highest at
39.9% in Peregian Beach – Marcus Beach followed closely by Noosa Hinterland at 39.3% and
38.1% at Sunshine Beach.
 For Noosa Shire 15.4% of total families were one parent families, with the highest rates being
18.9% at Tewantin and 18% for Sunshine Beach. Noosa Heads had the lowest proportion of one
parent families at 12.8%.




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