2.1 → 0.0%
Lower than 89% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 2.1
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.
Couples without children make up the largest group in Remote Australia, accounting for 45% of families. This area is marked by very small households and a high number of people living on their own, with far more single-person homes than the national average.
2.1
→ 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 89% of areas.
| Remote Australia | 2.1 |
|---|---|
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
A high 36.4% of people live alone, which is far above the Australian figure of 25.6%. This explains why the typical home in Remote Australia is smaller than most, holding just 2.1 people.
36.4% ▲ +2.8%
Higher than 97% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 35.5%
- 2016: 37.6%
- 2021: 36.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Remote Australia, the largest group is 2 people at 42%, followed by 1 person (36%) and 3 people (9%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 10.5% of the total, a figure that is well below the 14.1% seen across Australia. This proportion has fallen slightly since 2011.
10.5% ▼ -9.0%
Lower than 96% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 11.6%
- 2016: 11.6%
- 2021: 10.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Remote Australia splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (45%) and Couples with children (44%), with One-parent families at 11%.
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/RA23/remote-australia/topic/family-households