3.5 ▼ -18.6%
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.3
- 2016: 4.0
- 2021: 3.5
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Wurrumiyanga · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Wurrumiyanga
How families and households are made up across the area.
Typical homes in Wurrumiyanga hold 3.5 people, which is well above the national figure of 2.5. This makes the area one of the most crowded for similar places. Most households are families, with a notably high number of single parents raising children.
3.5
▼ -18.6%
- 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 Wurrumiyanga — higher than 95% of areas.
| Wurrumiyanga | 3.5 |
|---|---|
| 0822, NT | 3.8 |
| Northern Territory | 2.8 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
People living alone are much less common here than in the rest of Australia, making up only 17.4% of households. This helps explain the large home sizes, with nearly 20% of households containing six or more people.
17.4% ▲ +33.4%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.0%
- 2016: 11.7%
- 2021: 17.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Wurrumiyanga splits fairly evenly between 2 people (21%) and 3 people (19%), with 6 or more at 19%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Over half of all families are couples with children. One-parent families are very common, making up 24.0% of the total, which is well above the Northern Territory figure of 17.5%.
24.0% ▲ +31.4%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.2%
- 2016: 23.9%
- 2021: 24.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Wurrumiyanga, Couples with children is the majority at 51%; One-parent families is next at 24%.
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 Wurrumiyanga [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70295/wurrumiyanga/topic/family-households