2.0 ▼ -4.8%
Lower than 91% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.1
- 2021: 2.0
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.
Far more people live alone in Very Remote Australia than in other parts of the country. This creates a unique social landscape where one-person households are very common, which helps explain why homes here have fewer people in them than the national figure.
2.0
▼ -4.8%
- 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 — lower than 91% of areas.
| Very Remote Australia | 2.0 |
|---|---|
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Very Remote Australia holds just 2.0 people, which is well below the national figure of 2.5. Living alone is very common here, with 36.8% of households consisting of one person, a figure that has risen since 2011.
36.8% ▲ +4.6%
Higher than 98% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 35.2%
- 2016: 36.2%
- 2021: 36.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Very Remote Australia splits fairly evenly between 2 people (41%) and 1 person (37%), with 3 people at 10%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Family structures are varied, with couples with children (44.8%) and couples without children (44.2%) making up the vast majority. One-parent families are much less common here than across Australia, accounting for only 10.0% of families.
10.0% ▼ -1.5%
Lower than 99% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 10.2%
- 2016: 8.9%
- 2021: 10.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Very Remote Australia splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (45%) and Couples without children (44%), with One-parent families at 10%.
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/RA64/very-remote-australia/topic/family-households