2.3 → 0.0%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Katherine · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Katherine
How families and households are made up across the area.
Roughly half of all families in Katherine consist of couples with children. This is a place where people often live in smaller groups, with a typical household size of 2.3 people, which is a little below the national figure.
2.3
→ 0.0%
- 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 Katherine — lower than 71% of areas.
| Katherine | 2.3 |
|---|---|
| 0850, NT | 2.7 |
| Northern Territory | 2.8 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Living alone is much more common here than in most areas, with 32.4% of households consisting of a single person. This is well above the Northern Territory figure of 23.8% and the national figure of 25.6%.
32.4% ▼ -8.1%
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.3%
- 2016: 31.7%
- 2021: 32.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Katherine splits fairly evenly between 1 person (33%) and 2 people (30%), with 3 people at 16%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 19.2% of the total, which is much higher than most areas. This is well above the Australian figure of 14.1% and a little above the Territory's 17.5%.
19.2% ▲ +32.5%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.5%
- 2016: 20.9%
- 2021: 19.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Katherine, the largest group is Couples with children at 49%, followed by Couples without children (30%) and One-parent families (19%).
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 Katherine [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70144/katherine/topic/family-households