2.3 ▼ -4.2%
Lower than 86% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.2
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Nightcliff · State Electorate
Family & Households in Nightcliff
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people live alone in Nightcliff than in most similar areas. This trend has grown over the last decade, with 31.4% of households now consisting of just one person. Consequently, homes here are smaller than the national norm, with a typical household holding only 2.3 people.
2.3
▼ -4.2%
- 1.5: 1 area
- 1.6: 0 areas
- 1.7: 1 area
- 1.8: 2 areas
- 1.9: 3 areas
- 2.0: 4 areas
- 2.1: 7 areas
- 2.2: 23 areas
- 2.3: 65 areas
- 2.4: 66 areas
- 2.5: 72 areas
- 2.6: 51 areas
- 2.7: 44 areas
- 2.8: 32 areas
- 2.9: 28 areas
- 3.0: 11 areas
- 3.1: 10 areas
- 3.2: 10 areas
- 3.3: 2 areas
- 3.4: 0 areas
- 3.5: 1 area
- 3.6: 0 areas
- 3.7: 0 areas
- 3.8: 0 areas
- 3.9: 1 area
- 4.0: 1 area
- 4.1: 1 area
All state electorate areas, 2021. The marker is Nightcliff — lower than 86% of areas.
| Nightcliff | 2.3 |
|---|---|
| Greater Darwin | 2.6 |
| Northern Territory | 2.8 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Single-person households are well above the national figure of 25.6%, and the number of people living alone has risen since 2011. This helps explain why the 2.3 people per home in Nightcliff is a little below both the Northern Territory and Australian averages.
31.4% ▲ +12.6%
Higher than 86% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 27.9%
- 2016: 33.3%
- 2021: 31.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Nightcliff splits fairly evenly between 2 people (32%) and 1 person (31%), with 3 people at 17%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Most families here are couples with children (55.5%) or couples without children (30%). One-parent families make up 12.7% of the total, which is well below the Northern Territory figure of 17.5%.
12.7% ▼ -3.4%
Lower than 63% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 13.2%
- 2016: 6.5%
- 2021: 12.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Nightcliff, Couples with children is the majority at 56%; Couples without children is next at 30%.
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 Nightcliff [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED70021/nightcliff/topic/family-households