2.5 —
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.9
- 2021: 2.5
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Weddell · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Weddell
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly half of all families in Weddell include couples with children, making it the most common family type. The area is mostly made up of families, though one-parent households are far more common here than in the rest of the Territory.
2.5
—
- 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 Weddell — higher than 50% of areas.
| Weddell | 2.5 |
|---|---|
| 0822, NT | 3.8 |
| Northern Territory | 2.8 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Weddell has 2.5 people, which is about the same as the national figure. About 24% of households consist of one person, a rate similar to the Northern Territory average.
24.0% —
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Weddell splits fairly evenly between 2 people (30%) and 1 person (26%), with 3 people at 22%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 37.2% of the total, which is far above the national figure of 14.1% and the Territory average of 17.5%. This is among the highest proportions of single-parent families for areas of this type.
37.2% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 19.6%
- 2021: 37.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Weddell, the largest group is Couples with children at 41%, followed by One-parent families (31%) and Couples without children (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 Weddell [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70283/weddell/topic/family-households