3.8 ▲ +8.6%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.5
- 2016: 3.7
- 2021: 3.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Emungalan · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Emungalan
How families and households are made up across the area.
Larger households are common in Emungalan, which has some of the highest densities of people per home for its area type. This is a place where very few people live alone, with the typical home holding nearly four people.
3.8
▲ +8.6%
- 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 Emungalan — higher than 99% of areas.
| Emungalan | 3.8 |
|---|---|
| 0850, NT | 2.7 |
| Northern Territory | 2.8 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are much larger than usual, with 3.8 people per household compared to 2.8 in the Northern Territory and 2.5 nationally. This is reflected in the low number of people living alone, at just 5.7%, which is far below the national figure of 25.6%.
5.7% ▼ -73.4%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.3%
- 2016: 19.0%
- 2021: 5.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Emungalan splits fairly evenly between 2 people (27%) and 3 people (27%), with 5 people at 18%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 27.6% of the community, a figure far above the 14.1% seen across Australia. Nearly half of all families are couples with children, while 26.5% are couples without children.
27.6% ▲ +56.5%
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.6%
- 2016: 15.0%
- 2021: 27.6%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Emungalan, the largest group is Couples with children at 45%, followed by One-parent families (27%) and Couples without children (26%).
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 Emungalan [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70094/emungalan/topic/family-households