2.0 ▼ -4.8%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 2.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Darwin City · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Darwin City
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly 39% of people live alone in Darwin City, which is far more than most other areas. This makes it a place of small households, where the typical home contains only 2.0 people.
2.0
▼ -4.8%
- 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 Darwin City — lower than 86% of areas.
| Darwin City | 2.0 |
|---|---|
| 0800, NT | 2.0 |
| Northern Territory | 2.8 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Small households are the norm here, with 38.4% of people living alone—a figure far above the national average of 25.6%. This helps explain why the 2.0 people per home is well below the Northern Territory figure of 2.8.
38.4% ▲ +14.0%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.7%
- 2016: 37.2%
- 2021: 38.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Darwin City splits fairly evenly between 1 person (38%) and 2 people (37%), with 3 people at 14%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Most families here are couples without children, making up 52.3% of the group. One-parent families are less common at 8.1%, which is well below the 14.1% seen across Australia.
8.1% ▼ -3.7%
Lower than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.4%
- 2016: 6.8%
- 2021: 8.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Darwin City, Couples without children is the majority at 52%; Couples with children is next at 37%.
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 Darwin City [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70073/darwin-city/topic/family-households