2.1 → 0.0%
Lower than 95% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.1
- 2016: 2.9
- 2021: 2.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Port Darwin · State Electorate
Family & Households in Port Darwin
How families and households are made up across the area.
Small households are the norm in Port Darwin, where more than a third of residents live alone. This results in a typical home size of 2.1 people, which is well below the Northern Territory average. The area has a high proportion of single-person homes and couples without children.
2.1
→ 0.0%
- 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 Port Darwin — lower than 95% of areas.
| Port Darwin | 2.1 |
|---|---|
| Greater Darwin | 2.6 |
| Northern Territory | 2.8 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Living alone is very common here, with 35.1% of households consisting of one person—a figure well above the national average. This helps explain why the typical home holds only 2.1 people, which is among the lowest figures for similar areas.
35.1% ▲ +12.5%
Higher than 95% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 31.2%
- 2016: 16.3%
- 2021: 35.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Port Darwin splits fairly evenly between 2 people (37%) and 1 person (35%), with 3 people at 14%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest family group at 47%, while only 7.3% of families are one-parent homes. This last figure is far below the Northern Territory average and has fallen slightly since 2011.
7.3% ▼ -11.4%
Lower than 99% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 8.2%
- 2016: 15.4%
- 2021: 7.3%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Port Darwin splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (47%) and Couples with children (44%), with One-parent families at 7%.
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 Port Darwin [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED70022/port-darwin/topic/family-households