3.2 ▼ -8.6%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.5
- 2016: 2.6
- 2021: 3.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Tiwi Islands · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Tiwi Islands
How families and households are made up across the area.
Family sizes have remained consistently large in the Tiwi Islands, with 3.2 people living in the typical home. This is well above the national figure of 2.5, reflecting a local trend toward larger households compared to most of Australia.
3.2
▼ -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 Tiwi Islands — higher than 89% of areas.
| Tiwi Islands | 3.2 |
|---|---|
| 0822, NT | 3.8 |
| Northern Territory | 2.8 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are larger than usual, with 3.2 people per dwelling and 8.3% of households holding six or more people. Fewer people live alone here (22.2%) than in the Northern Territory or across Australia.
22.2% ▲ +59.3%
Lower than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.0%
- 2016: 14.6%
- 2021: 22.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Tiwi Islands, the largest group is 2 people at 33%, followed by 1 person (24%) and 5 people (21%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 61.0% of families in the Tiwi Islands. One-parent families are much less common here at 7.0%, which is far below the Northern Territory figure of 17.5%.
7.0% ▼ -63.7%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.3%
- 2016: 11.8%
- 2021: 7.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Tiwi Islands, Couples with children is the majority at 64%; Couples without children is next at 29%.
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 Islands [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70263/tiwi-islands/topic/family-households