1.8 ▲ +12.5%
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.6
- 2016: 1.4
- 2021: 1.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Alice Springs · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Alice Springs
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than half of all homes in Alice Springs are occupied by just one person. This high number of single-person households means the area is much smaller and less crowded than most other parts of the territory.
1.8
▲ +12.5%
- 1.5–1.6: 490 areas
- 1.6–1.8: 168 areas
- 1.8–1.9: 642 areas
- 1.9–2.1: 816 areas
- 2.1–2.2: 1854 areas
- 2.2–2.4: 1319 areas
- 2.4–2.5: 2753 areas
- 2.5–2.7: 1349 areas
- 2.7–2.8: 2332 areas
- 2.8–3.0: 805 areas
- 3.0–3.1: 1044 areas
- 3.1–3.3: 289 areas
- 3.3–3.4: 386 areas
- 3.4–3.6: 110 areas
- 3.6–3.7: 85 areas
- 3.7–3.9: 40 areas
- 3.9–4.0: 258 areas
All suburb / locality areas, 2021. The marker is Alice Springs — lower than 91% of areas.
| Alice Springs | 1.8 |
|---|---|
| 0870, NT | 2.6 |
| Northern Territory | 2.8 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Alice Springs holds only 1.8 people, which is well below the national figure of 2.5. This is because 54.2% of residents live alone, a rate far above both the Northern Territory and Australian averages.
54.2% ▼ -5.9%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 57.6%
- 2016: 67.6%
- 2021: 54.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Alice Springs, 1 person is the majority at 55%; 2 people is next at 20%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 45.2% of families here. One-parent families account for 11.9%, which is well below the Northern Territory average of 17.5%.
11.9% ▲ +8.3%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 11.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Alice Springs, the largest group is Couples with children at 47%, followed by Couples without children (41%) and One-parent families (12%).
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 Alice Springs [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70005/alice-springs/topic/family-households