2.1 ▲ +5.0%
Lower than 90% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 2.0
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Wagait · Council (LGA)
Family & Households in Wagait
How families and households are made up across the area.
Smaller household sizes have become the norm in Wagait, where the typical home now holds 2.1 people. This is much lower than most similar areas and well below the Northern Territory figure of 2.8. While the number of people per home has edged up since 2011, the area remains defined by small households.
2.1
▲ +5.0%
- 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 Wagait — lower than 90% of areas.
| Wagait | 2.1 |
|---|---|
| Rest of NT | 3.1 |
| Northern Territory | 2.8 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Nearly 30% of residents live alone, which is well above both the national and territory figures. Half of all households consist of just two people, though the proportion of one-person homes has fallen slightly since 2011.
29.7% ▼ -9.2%
Higher than 56% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 32.7%
- 2016: 26.8%
- 2021: 29.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Wagait, the largest group is 2 people at 49%, followed by 1 person (29%) and 3 people (14%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest group at 47%, followed by couples with children at 39.1%. One-parent families account for 12.5% of the total, a figure that has risen since 2011 but remains well below the Northern Territory average.
12.5% ▲ +20.6%
Lower than 61% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 10.4%
- 2016: 10.8%
- 2021: 12.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Wagait, the largest group is Couples without children at 47%, followed by Couples with children (39%) and One-parent families (13%).
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 Wagait [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA74560/wagait/topic/family-households