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Rockhampton Regional CouncilCommunity profile

Rockhampton

Family blending

In 2021, Rockhampton had 15.6% of couple families with children in step families and 6.4% in blended families.

Information on blended and intact families can be an indicator of the level of family breakup and repartnering within the area, and a potential indicator of socio-economic disadvantage. Family blending only applies to couple families with children. For information more broadly about household and family types, including single-parent families, please see Household Type, Households with Children, and Households without Children.

Q:

Derived from the Census question:

'What is the person's relationship (to each other person in the household)?'

Family blending
Rockhampton - Total couples with children (Enumerated)20212016Change
Family blending by typeNumber%Norman Gardens %Number%Norman Gardens %2016 to 2021
Intact Family 6,40077.079.37,08785.690.2-687
Step family 1,29515.614.56447.85.5+651
Blended family 5366.45.54875.94.3+49
Other couple family 801.00.6660.8--+14
Total couples with children8,311100.0100.08,284100.0100.0+27
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing 2016 and 2021. Compiled and presented by .id (informed decisions).
Please refer to specific data notes for more information

Dominant groups

Analysis of the family blending in Rockhampton in 2021 compared to Norman Gardens shows that there was a higher proportion of step families as well as a higher proportion of blended families. Overall, 15.6% of total couple families with children were step families, and 6.4% were blended families, compared with 14.5% and 5.5% respectively for Norman Gardens.

There were a similar proportion of other families and a lower proportion of couples without children. Overall, the proportion of other families was 1.0% compared to 0.6% in Norman Gardens while the proportion of intact families was 77.0% compared to 79.3% in Norman Gardens.

Emerging groups

The number of couple families with children in Rockhampton increased by 27 between 2016 and 2021.

The largest changes in family blending in Rockhampton between 2016 and 2021 were:

  • Intact Family (-687 couples with children)
  • Step family (+651 couples with children)

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