2.5 —
Higher than 71% of council (lga) areas.
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Christmas Island · Council (LGA)
Family & Households in Christmas Island
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people live in each home on Christmas Island than in most other areas, with a typical household size of 2.5 people. The island has a distinct mix of family types, where two-thirds of all families include children.
2.5
—
- 1.5: 3 areas
- 1.6: 1 area
- 1.7: 1 area
- 1.8: 5 areas
- 1.9: 5 areas
- 2.0: 9 areas
- 2.1: 26 areas
- 2.2: 77 areas
- 2.3: 107 areas
- 2.4: 90 areas
- 2.5: 83 areas
- 2.6: 39 areas
- 2.7: 30 areas
- 2.8: 18 areas
- 2.9: 13 areas
- 3.0: 3 areas
- 3.1: 9 areas
- 3.2: 5 areas
- 3.3: 2 areas
- 3.4: 4 areas
- 3.5: 5 areas
- 3.6: 1 area
- 3.7: 3 areas
- 3.8: 2 areas
- 3.9: 1 area
- 4.0: 1 area
- 4.1: 2 areas
- 4.2: 2 areas
- 4.3: 0 areas
- 4.4: 0 areas
- 4.5: 1 area
- 4.6: 0 areas
- 4.7: 0 areas
- 4.8: 1 area
- 4.9: 1 area
All council (lga) areas, 2021. The marker is Christmas Island — higher than 71% of areas.
| Christmas Island | 2.5 |
|---|---|
| Other Territories | 2.4 |
| Other Territories | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 31% of residents live alone, which is well above the national figure of 25.6%. However, larger households are also common, with 8.1% of homes containing five or more people.
31.0% —
Higher than 66% of council (lga) areas.
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Christmas Island splits fairly evenly between 1 person (31%) and 2 people (31%), with 3 people at 14%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 65% of families here. Meanwhile, one-parent families account for only 8.6% of the total, a figure that is well below the Australian average of 14.1%.
8.6% —
Lower than 88% of council (lga) areas.
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Christmas Island, Couples with children is the majority at 65%; Couples without children is next at 25%.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
More for Christmas Island
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Family & Households in Christmas Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA51710/christmas-island/topic/family-households