2.1 ▼ -8.7%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Daly River · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Daly River
How families and households are made up across the area.
A much higher share of people live alone in Daly River compared to the rest of the Northern Territory. This trend helps explain why homes here are smaller, with a typical household of 2.1 people, which is well below the territory figure.
2.1
▼ -8.7%
- 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 Daly River — lower than 81% of areas.
| Daly River | 2.1 |
|---|---|
| 0822, NT | 3.8 |
| Northern Territory | 2.8 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 34.9% of people live alone, a figure far above the Northern Territory's 23.8%. This high number of single-person homes means the typical household is smaller than most areas, with 37.2% of homes housing two people.
34.9% ▲ +30.8%
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.7%
- 2016: 22.5%
- 2021: 34.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Daly River splits fairly evenly between 2 people (47%) and 1 person (44%), with 4 people at 9%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
There are no one-parent families in the area, which is far below the 17.5% seen across the Northern Territory. Most families are couples, with 47.5% having no children and 44.1% with children.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.2%
- 2016: 27.5%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Daly River splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (47%) and Couples with children (44%), with Other families at 8%.
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 Daly River [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70071/daly-river/topic/family-households