3.0 → 0.0%
Higher than 93% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 3.0
- 2016: 3.2
- 2021: 3.0
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.
Larger homes and more children define daily life in Inner Regional Australia, where 3 people typically live in each household. This is a little above the national figure, making it one of the highest-density living arrangements among similar regional areas.
3.0
→ 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 — higher than 93% of areas.
| Inner Regional Australia | 3.0 |
|---|---|
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 3.0 people live in each home, a figure that has barely changed since 2011. Far fewer people live alone here compared to the rest of Australia, with only 22.5% of households being single-person homes.
22.5% ▲ +28.8%
Lower than 90% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 17.4%
- 2016: 22.1%
- 2021: 22.5%
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 31%, followed by 1 person (23%) and 4 people (17%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 36.8% of the total, which is far above the national figure of 14.1%. While this remains among the highest proportions for similar areas, the number of single-parent homes fell 10 percentage points since 2011.
36.8% ▼ -22.2%
Higher than 99% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 47.2%
- 2016: 53.8%
- 2021: 36.8%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Inner Regional Australia splits fairly evenly between One-parent families (37%) and Couples with children (34%), with Couples without children at 19%.
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/RA91/inner-regional-australia/topic/family-households