2.4 → 0.0%
Lower than 57% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Outer Regional Australia · Remoteness Area
Family & Households in Outer Regional Australia
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people live alone in Outer Regional Australia than in most similar areas. Nearly 30% of households consist of just one person, which is well above the national figure of 25.6%. This trend has grown since 2011, though the typical number of people per home remains steady at 2.4.
2.4
→ 0.0%
- 1.5: 1 area
- 1.6: 0 areas
- 1.7: 1 area
- 1.8: 0 areas
- 1.9: 0 areas
- 2.0: 2 areas
- 2.1: 1 area
- 2.2: 1 area
- 2.3: 5 areas
- 2.4: 11 areas
- 2.5: 5 areas
- 2.6: 4 areas
- 2.7: 4 areas
- 2.8: 0 areas
- 2.9: 0 areas
- 3.0: 1 area
- 3.1: 1 area
- 3.2: 0 areas
- 3.3: 0 areas
- 3.4: 0 areas
- 3.5: 0 areas
- 3.6: 0 areas
- 3.7: 0 areas
- 3.8: 1 area
All remoteness area areas, 2021. The marker is Outer Regional Australia — lower than 57% of areas.
| Outer Regional Australia | 2.4 |
|---|---|
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Single-person homes are common here, making up 29.7% of all households. This is a higher proportion than the national average, while two-person homes are the most frequent at 37.8%.
29.7% ▲ +5.8%
Higher than 66% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 28.1%
- 2016: 29.4%
- 2021: 29.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Outer Regional Australia, the largest group is 2 people at 38%, followed by 1 person (30%) and 3 people (13%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Half of all families in the area are couples with children. One-parent families make up 14.9% of the total, a figure that is about the same as the Australian average and has barely changed since 2011.
14.9% ▼ -0.5%
Higher than 54% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 15.0%
- 2016: 15.5%
- 2021: 14.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Outer Regional Australia, Couples with children is the majority at 50%; Couples without children is next at 34%.
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 Outer Regional Australia [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ra/RA12/outer-regional-australia/topic/family-households