2.5 ▼ -3.8%
Higher than 57% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 2.6
- 2016: 2.7
- 2021: 2.5
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Christmas Island · Sub-region (SA3)
Family & Households in Christmas Island
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people live alone on Christmas Island than in the typical Australian town. This creates a unique domestic landscape where a large number of single-person households exists alongside a strong prevalence of couples raising children.
2.5
▼ -3.8%
- 1.0: 1 area
- 1.1: 0 areas
- 1.2: 0 areas
- 1.3: 0 areas
- 1.4: 0 areas
- 1.5: 1 area
- 1.6: 0 areas
- 1.7: 1 area
- 1.8: 2 areas
- 1.9: 4 areas
- 2.0: 3 areas
- 2.1: 7 areas
- 2.2: 17 areas
- 2.3: 60 areas
- 2.4: 55 areas
- 2.5: 57 areas
- 2.6: 43 areas
- 2.7: 19 areas
- 2.8: 27 areas
- 2.9: 16 areas
- 3.0: 13 areas
- 3.1: 6 areas
- 3.2: 5 areas
- 3.3: 2 areas
- 3.4: 1 area
- 3.5: 1 area
- 3.6: 0 areas
- 3.7: 0 areas
- 3.8: 1 area
- 3.9: 0 areas
- 4.0: 1 area
All sub-region (sa3) areas, 2021. The marker is Christmas Island — higher than 57% of areas.
| Christmas Island | 2.5 |
|---|---|
| Other Territories | 2.4 |
| Other Territories | 2.4 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 31% of people live alone, a figure that is well above the national average and has risen by 7 percentage points since 2011. Despite this, the typical home holds 2.5 people, which is about the same as the rest of the country.
31.0% ▲ +28.9%
Higher than 84% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 24.1%
- 2016: 23.8%
- 2021: 31.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Christmas Island splits fairly evenly between 1 person (31%) and 2 people (31%), with 3 people at 14%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Families with couples raising children make up 65% of the local total. Meanwhile, one-parent families account for only 8.6%, which is well below both the national figure and other territories.
8.6% ▲ +10.7%
Lower than 99% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 7.8%
- 2016: 8.3%
- 2021: 8.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Christmas Island, Couples with children is the majority at 65%; Couples without children is next at 25%.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
More for Christmas Island
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Family & Households in Christmas Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/90101/christmas-island/topic/family-households