2.4 ▼ -4.0%
Lower than 57% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 2.5
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Inner Regional Australia · Remoteness Area
Family & Households in Inner Regional Australia
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than half of all families in Inner Regional Australia are couples with children. This mix of households is fairly typical for its level, with the typical home holding 2.4 people.
2.4
▼ -4.0%
- 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 Inner Regional Australia — lower than 57% of areas.
| Inner Regional Australia | 2.4 |
|---|---|
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Single-person homes make up 28.3% of the area, which is a little above the national figure of 25.6%. This number has risen since 2011, while the typical number of people per home has edged down slightly to 2.4.
28.3% ▲ +6.2%
Higher than 50% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 26.7%
- 2016: 27.8%
- 2021: 28.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Inner Regional Australia, the largest group is 2 people at 37%, followed by 1 person (28%) and 3 people (14%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children are the most common family type at 53.8%, followed by couples without children at 31%. One-parent families make up 14.3% of the total, a figure that is about the same as the national average and has barely changed since 2011.
14.3% ▲ +0.3%
Lower than 55% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 14.3%
- 2016: 14.4%
- 2021: 14.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Inner Regional Australia, Couples with children is the majority at 54%; 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 Inner Regional Australia [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ra/RA21/inner-regional-australia/topic/family-households