2.7 ▼ -6.9%
Higher than 86% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 2.9
- 2016: 2.7
- 2021: 2.7
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Very Remote Australia · Remoteness Area
Family & Households in Very Remote Australia
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people have lived alone in Very Remote Australia since 2011, with the number of single-person households rising by 3.7 percentage points. While households here are generally larger than the national figure, a significant 29.3% of the population now lives by themselves.
2.7
▼ -6.9%
- 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 Very Remote Australia — higher than 86% of areas.
| Very Remote Australia | 2.7 |
|---|---|
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The typical home holds 2.7 people, which is among the highest for similar areas. While 30.1% of households have two people, the number of people living alone is 29.3%, well above the national figure of 25.6%.
29.3% ▲ +14.5%
Higher than 59% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 25.6%
- 2016: 28.3%
- 2021: 29.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Very Remote Australia splits fairly evenly between 2 people (30%) and 1 person (29%), with 3 people at 13%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 20.2% of the total, a figure that is much higher than most areas and well above the 14.1% seen across Australia. Couples with children are the most common group at 53.4%.
20.2% ▲ +4.9%
Higher than 87% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 19.2%
- 2016: 19.0%
- 2021: 20.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Very Remote Australia, Couples with children is the majority at 53%; Couples without children is next at 24%.
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 Very Remote Australia [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ra/RA54/very-remote-australia/topic/family-households