3.4 ▼ -8.1%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.7
- 2016: 3.4
- 2021: 3.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Milikapiti · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Milikapiti
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live together in Milikapiti than in most other parts of the country. This is a place of large households, where the typical home holds 3.4 people, well above the national figure of 2.5.
3.4
▼ -8.1%
- 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 Milikapiti — higher than 93% of areas.
| Milikapiti | 3.4 |
|---|---|
| 0822, NT | 3.8 |
| Northern Territory | 2.8 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Large homes are common here, with 17.1% of households containing six or more people. This helps explain why the area is well above the national average for home size and has fewer people living alone than the typical Australian home.
21.6% ▲ +41.2%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.3%
- 2016: 13.5%
- 2021: 21.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Milikapiti splits fairly evenly between 1 person (22%) and 4 people (17%), with 6 or more at 17%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Family structures in Milikapiti differ sharply from the rest of the country, with one-parent families making up 26.4% of the total. This is far above the national figure of 14.1% and well above the Northern Territory average.
26.4% ▲ +14.4%
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.0%
- 2016: 21.8%
- 2021: 26.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Milikapiti, Couples with children is the majority at 54%; One-parent families is next at 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 Milikapiti [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70185/milikapiti/topic/family-households