2.6 ▼ -3.7%
Higher than 77% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 2.7
- 2016: 2.7
- 2021: 2.6
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.
Fewer people are living in each home across Outer Regional Australia than in 2011. This shift is partly because more people are now living on their own, though homes here still tend to be larger than in most other areas.
2.6
▼ -3.7%
- 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 — higher than 77% of areas.
| Outer Regional Australia | 2.6 |
|---|---|
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The typical home holds 2.6 people, which is much higher than most similar areas. While 23.4% of people live alone—a little below the national figure—this number has risen by 2.1 percentage points since 2011.
23.4% ▲ +9.7%
Lower than 87% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 21.3%
- 2016: 20.8%
- 2021: 23.4%
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 32%, followed by 1 person (23%) and 3 people (18%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 59.2% of families here. One-parent families account for 14.6% of the total, a figure that is about the same as the national average and has barely changed since 2011.
14.6% ▲ +1.5%
Higher than 50% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 14.4%
- 2016: 12.7%
- 2021: 14.6%
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 59%; Couples without children is next at 25%.
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/RA72/outer-regional-australia/topic/family-households