0.50 —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Average number of usual residents per bedroom — a crowding measure.
Barrow Island · Suburb / Locality
Where and how people live — the homes, how they are held, and what they cost.
Very few people share bedrooms on Barrow Island, placing it among the lowest areas for this measure. The island is sparsely populated and largely non-residential, with a typical home density far lower than the national figure.
Houses, townhouses, apartments and bedrooms.
With only 0.50 people per bedroom, the typical home here is much less crowded than across Australia or Western Australia, where the figure is 0.80.
0.50 —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Average number of usual residents per bedroom — a crowding measure.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Housing & Dwellings in Barrow Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50076/barrow-island/topic/housing-dwellings