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.
Inner Regional Australia · Remoteness Area
Family & Households in Inner Regional Australia
How families and households are made up across the area.
Inner Regional Australia shows family and household patterns that are generally similar to other areas of its type. One-parent families are much more common here than in most similar regions, though the typical household size has remained steady at 2.4 people since 2011.
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 Inner Regional Australia — lower than 57% of areas.
| Inner Regional Australia | 2.4 |
|---|---|
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 28.3% of people live alone, which is a little above the national figure of 25.6%. Two-person homes are the most common, making up 34.5% of all households.
28.3% ▼ -0.5%
Lower than 51% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 28.4%
- 2016: 29.6%
- 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 34%, followed by 1 person (28%) and 3 people (16%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 16.5% of the total, a figure that is much higher than in most similar areas and a little above the Australian average of 14.1%. Couples with children are the largest group at 52.4%.
16.5% ▼ -0.3%
Higher than 74% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 16.6%
- 2016: 17.0%
- 2021: 16.5%
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 52%; Couples without children is next at 30%.
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/RA61/inner-regional-australia/topic/family-households