3.1 ▲ +10.7%
Higher than 96% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 2.8
- 2016: 3.0
- 2021: 3.1
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.
A higher proportion of large households than most similar areas defines Inner Regional Australia. The area is characterised by bigger homes and far fewer people living alone, with the typical household now containing 3.1 people.
3.1
▲ +10.7%
- 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 Inner Regional Australia — higher than 96% of areas.
| Inner Regional Australia | 3.1 |
|---|---|
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Living alone is uncommon here, with only 13.4% of people in single-person homes—a figure that has fallen since 2011 and is far below the national 25.6%. This helps explain why the typical home size has grown to 3.1 people, which is a little above the Australian figure of 2.5.
13.4% ▼ -35.5%
Lower than 99% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 20.8%
- 2016: 14.8%
- 2021: 13.4%
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 33%, followed by 4 people (22%) and 3 people (15%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the majority of families at 58.8%. One-parent families account for 12.7% of the total, which is much lower than most similar areas and a little below the national figure of 14.1%.
12.7% ▲ +20.8%
Lower than 79% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 10.5%
- 2016: 8.8%
- 2021: 12.7%
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 59%; Couples without children is next at 27%.
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/RA81/inner-regional-australia/topic/family-households