2.5 ▲ +4.2%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 2.5
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Katherine South · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Katherine South
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people are living alone in Katherine South than in most other areas. This trend is seen in the typical home, where 31.9% of households are just one person, making it much higher than the national figure of 25.6%.
2.5
▲ +4.2%
- 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 South — higher than 50% of areas.
| Katherine South | 2.5 |
|---|---|
| 0850, NT | 2.7 |
| Northern Territory | 2.8 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes in Katherine South typically house 2.5 people, which is about the same as the national figure. While 31.9% of residents live alone, another 31.9% live in two-person households.
31.9% ▲ +2.1%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.2%
- 2016: 37.7%
- 2021: 31.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Katherine South splits fairly evenly between 1 person (32%) and 2 people (32%), with 3 people at 14%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 19.9% of the area, which is well above the Australian figure of 14.1%. Just over half of all families here are couples with children.
19.9% ▼ -6.2%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.2%
- 2016: 19.9%
- 2021: 19.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Katherine South, Couples with children is the majority at 50%; Couples without children is next at 27%.
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 South [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70146/katherine-south/topic/family-households