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.
Remote Australia · Remoteness Area
Family & Households in Remote Australia
How families and households are made up across the area.
About 31% of people live alone in Remote Australia, which is well above the national figure. This is a sparsely populated region where household patterns have remained stable for a decade, with the typical home holding about 2.4 people.
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 Remote Australia — lower than 57% of areas.
| Remote Australia | 2.4 |
|---|---|
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Single-person homes are common here, making up 31% of all households—a rate much higher than most other areas. Two-person homes are the most frequent at 35%, while the average household size has stayed steady at 2.4 people since 2011.
31.0% ▲ +1.5%
Higher than 76% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 30.5%
- 2016: 31.3%
- 2021: 31.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Remote Australia splits fairly evenly between 2 people (35%) and 1 person (31%), with 3 people at 13%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Over half of families are couples with children, accounting for 52.3% of the total. One-parent families make up 15.6% of the group, which is a little above the national figure and has barely changed over the last ten years.
15.6% ▲ +0.6%
Higher than 65% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 15.5%
- 2016: 17.4%
- 2021: 15.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Remote Australia, Couples with children is the majority at 52%; Couples without children is next at 31%.
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 Remote Australia [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ra/RA13/remote-australia/topic/family-households