3.8 —
Higher than 99% of council (lga) areas.
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Cocos Islands · Council (LGA)
Family & Households in Cocos Islands
How families and households are made up across the area.
Large households have become the norm on Cocos Islands, with the typical home now housing 3.8 people. This is well above the national figure of 2.5. Most homes here are filled with families, while very few people live by themselves.
3.8
—
- 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 Cocos Islands — higher than 99% of areas.
| Cocos Islands | 3.8 |
|---|---|
| Other Territories | 2.4 |
| Other Territories | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Living alone is rare here, with only 7.4% of people in single-person homes, far below the Australian figure of 25.6%. This helps explain why homes are so crowded, as 21.3% of households contain six or more people.
7.4% —
Lower than 99% of council (lga) areas.
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Cocos Islands, the largest group is 2 people at 30%, followed by 6 or more (23%) and 3 people (16%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 64.2% of families, while one-parent families are very rare at just 2.7%. This is far below the national figure of 14.1%.
2.7% —
Lower than 99% of council (lga) areas.
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Cocos Islands, Couples with children is the majority at 65%; Couples without children is next at 33%.
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 Cocos Islands [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA51860/cocos-islands/topic/family-households