2.6 → 0.0%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.6
- 2016: 2.7
- 2021: 2.6
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Tiwi · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Tiwi
How families and households are made up across the area.
Much higher rates of one-parent families mark the social landscape of Tiwi compared to the rest of the country. This area sees 19.3% of families led by a single parent, which is well above the Australian figure of 14.1%.
2.6
→ 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 Tiwi — higher than 57% of areas.
| Tiwi | 2.6 |
|---|---|
| 0810, NT | 2.7 |
| Northern Territory | 2.8 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are slightly more crowded than the national typical of 2.5 people, though they sit at 2.6. Interestingly, 27.6% of households are people living alone, a figure well above the Northern Territory average.
27.6% ▲ +17.3%
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.5%
- 2016: 21.4%
- 2021: 27.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Tiwi splits fairly evenly between 2 people (30%) and 1 person (27%), with 3 people at 16%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the majority of families at 56.7%. Single-parent families are much more common here than in most other areas, sitting at 19.3%.
19.3% ▲ +18.1%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.3%
- 2016: 15.1%
- 2021: 19.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Tiwi, Couples with children is the majority at 57%; Couples without children is next at 23%.
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 Tiwi [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70262/tiwi/topic/family-households