2.9 ▼ -17.1%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.5
- 2016: 3.3
- 2021: 2.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Wallace Rockhole · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Wallace Rockhole
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more one-parent families live in Wallace Rockhole than in the rest of the Northern Territory, with 47.1% of families falling into this group. This is a small area where nearly half of all families are headed by a single parent, making it one of the highest proportions at this level across the country.
2.9
▼ -17.1%
- 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 Wallace Rockhole — higher than 81% of areas.
| Wallace Rockhole | 2.9 |
|---|---|
| 0872 crosses NT/SA/WA | 3.6 |
| Northern Territory | 2.8 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Wallace Rockhole holds 2.9 people, which is slightly more than the Australian figure of 2.5. Interestingly, a high 37% of households consist of just one person, a figure far above the national average.
37.0% —
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 10.7%
- 2021: 37.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Wallace Rockhole, 1 person is the majority at 63%; 2 people is next at 19%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Single-parent families make up 47.1% of the total, which is 33 percentage points higher than the Australian average. Couples with children are the next most common group at 35.7%.
47.1% ▲ +34.7%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.0%
- 2016: 30.6%
- 2021: 47.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Wallace Rockhole, the largest group is One-parent families at 48%, followed by Couples with children (36%) and Couples without children (9%).
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 Wallace Rockhole [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70279/wallace-rockhole/topic/family-households