3.4 ▼ -15.0%
Higher than 96% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 4.0
- 2016: 3.8
- 2021: 3.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Tiwi Islands · Council (LGA)
Family & Households in Tiwi Islands
How families and households are made up across the area.
Much larger households than most similar areas define the Tiwi Islands, where the typical home holds 3.4 people. This is well above the national figure of 2.5. Family life is central here, with over half of all families consisting of couples with children.
3.4
▼ -15.0%
- 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 Tiwi Islands — higher than 96% of areas.
| Tiwi Islands | 3.4 |
|---|---|
| Rest of NT | 3.1 |
| Northern Territory | 2.8 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes in the Tiwi Islands are often crowded, with 16.7% holding six or more people. This helps explain why only 19.2% of people live alone, a figure well below the national average of 25.6%.
19.2% ▲ +33.0%
Lower than 92% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 14.4%
- 2016: 13.4%
- 2021: 19.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Tiwi Islands splits fairly evenly between 2 people (23%) and 1 person (19%), with 3 people at 17%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 25.4% of the total, which is far above the Australian figure of 14.1%. This proportion has risen by 5.5 percentage points since 2011.
25.4% ▲ +27.4%
Higher than 91% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 19.9%
- 2016: 23.3%
- 2021: 25.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Tiwi Islands, Couples with children is the majority at 51%; One-parent families is next at 25%.
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 Tiwi Islands [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA74050/tiwi-islands/topic/family-households