3.0 ▼ -3.2%
Higher than 93% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 3.1
- 2016: 3.1
- 2021: 3.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Lingiari · Federal Electorate
Family & Households in Lingiari
How families and households are made up across the area.
Couples with children make up the biggest family group in Lingiari, where 58.5% of families fit this category. The area is known for having larger households than most, with a typical home holding 3.0 people. This is slightly higher than the national figure.
3.0
▼ -3.2%
- 1.5: 1 area
- 1.6: 0 areas
- 1.7: 1 area
- 1.8: 0 areas
- 1.9: 2 areas
- 2.0: 1 area
- 2.1: 1 area
- 2.2: 3 areas
- 2.3: 23 areas
- 2.4: 27 areas
- 2.5: 26 areas
- 2.6: 22 areas
- 2.7: 16 areas
- 2.8: 8 areas
- 2.9: 9 areas
- 3.0: 5 areas
- 3.1: 6 areas
- 3.2: 2 areas
- 3.3: 1 area
All federal electorate areas, 2021. The marker is Lingiari — higher than 93% of areas.
| Lingiari | 3.0 |
|---|---|
| Rest of NT | 3.1 |
| Northern Territory | 2.8 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are larger than usual, with 11.7% of households fitting six or more people. While 22.9% of people live alone—a figure slightly below the Australian average—the number of single-person homes has risen slightly since 2011.
22.9% ▲ +4.2%
Lower than 68% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 21.9%
- 2016: 22.6%
- 2021: 22.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Lingiari splits fairly evenly between 2 people (28%) and 1 person (23%), with 3 people at 15%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 19.2% of the total, which is well above the national figure of 14.1%. This proportion has remained steady since 2011 and is among the highest for similar areas.
19.2% ▲ +1.1%
Higher than 99% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 19.0%
- 2016: 18.6%
- 2021: 19.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Lingiari, Couples with children is the majority at 59%; Couples without children is next at 20%.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Family & Households in Lingiari [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED701/lingiari/topic/family-households