Statistics for families and children

Key statistics

These key statistics relate to families and children in Gold Coast City.

According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) 2016 Census of Population and Housing:

Family households formed 71 per cent of all households in the city, which equates to 145,416 families
25,027 were one parent families with children (17.2 per cent of families)
57,379 were couple families without children (39.5 per cent of families)
60,903 were couple families with children (41.9 per cent of families).

The number of children in Gold Coast City is increasing, with an additional 9125 children aged 0 to 14 years old compared to five years ago.
Children aged 14 years and under formed 18.1 per cent of the city’s population.
There were 32,978 children aged 0 to 4 years (5.9 per cent of the population).
There were 34,860 children aged 5 to 9 years (6.3 per cent of the population).
There were 33,017 children aged 10 to 14 (5.9 per cent of the population).
A high percentage of families with children live in the north of the city.

1600 Gold Coast children aged 0 to 9 years old had a profound or severe disability.
There were 2,746 children aged 0-14 years who needed assistance in one or more of the three core activity areas of self-care, mobility and communication, because of a disability or long-term health condition (lasting six months or more).