3.2 ▼ -25.6%
Higher than 93% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 4.3
- 2016: 3.8
- 2021: 3.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Belyuen · Council (LGA)
Family & Households in Belyuen
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live in large groups in Belyuen than in most similar areas. This is a place where few people live alone, and a very high 39.1% of families are headed by a single parent.
3.2
▼ -25.6%
- 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 Belyuen — higher than 93% of areas.
| Belyuen | 3.2 |
|---|---|
| Rest of NT | 3.1 |
| Northern Territory | 2.8 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are crowded, with a typical 3.2 people per household, which is well above the national figure of 2.5. Only 19.6% of people live alone, a rate well below both the Territory and Australian averages.
19.6% ▲ +3.4%
Lower than 91% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 18.9%
- 2016: 18.4%
- 2021: 19.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Belyuen splits fairly evenly between 2 people (30%) and 3 people (30%), with 1 person at 20%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Single-parent families make up 39.1% of the total, a figure far above the 14.1% seen across Australia. This is a high proportion for the area, even though the figure has fallen 4.0 percentage points since 2011.
39.1% ▼ -9.3%
Higher than 99% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 43.1%
- 2016: 39.0%
- 2021: 39.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Belyuen, the largest group is One-parent families at 41%, followed by Couples with children (29%) and Couples without children (24%).
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 Belyuen [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA70540/belyuen/topic/family-households