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.
Outer Regional Australia · Remoteness Area
Family & Households in Outer Regional Australia
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people are living alone in Outer Regional Australia than in other parts of the country. Since 2011, the number of single-person households has risen by 3.6 percentage points. This trend has contributed to a slight drop in the typical number of people living in each home.
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 Outer Regional Australia — lower than 57% of areas.
| Outer Regional Australia | 2.4 |
|---|---|
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 29.2% of people live alone, which is well above the Australian figure of 25.6%. Most homes are small, with 37.1% containing two people and 29.2% containing just one.
29.2% ▲ +14.1%
Higher than 57% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 25.6%
- 2016: 26.9%
- 2021: 29.2%
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 37%, followed by 1 person (29%) and 3 people (13%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Over half of all families (52.4%) are couples with children, while 32.7% are couples without children. One-parent families make up 14.0% of the total, a figure that is about the same as the national average.
14.0% ▲ +5.2%
Lower than 61% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 13.3%
- 2016: 13.6%
- 2021: 14.0%
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 52%; Couples without children is next at 33%.
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/RA52/outer-regional-australia/topic/family-households