2.6 → 0.0%
Higher than 86% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 2.6
- 2016: 2.6
- 2021: 2.6
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Alice Springs · Urban Area
Family & Households in Alice Springs
How families and households are made up across the area.
Larger households are more common in Alice Springs than in most similar areas. This trend is reflected in the fact that 56.5% of families here are couples with children, and the typical home holds 2.6 people.
2.6
→ 0.0%
- 2.0: 2 areas
- 2.1: 1 area
- 2.2: 11 areas
- 2.3: 27 areas
- 2.4: 24 areas
- 2.5: 27 areas
- 2.6: 9 areas
- 2.7: 5 areas
- 2.8: 3 areas
- 2.9: 0 areas
- 3.0: 1 area
- 3.1: 0 areas
- 3.2: 0 areas
- 3.3: 1 area
All urban area areas, 2021. The marker is Alice Springs — higher than 86% of areas.
| Alice Springs | 2.6 |
|---|---|
| 0873, NT | 2.6 |
| Northern Territory | 2.8 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 27.1% of residents live alone, which is a little above the national figure and has risen since 2011. While people per home is much higher than most areas, the typical 2.6 people per dwelling is about the same as the rest of the country.
27.1% ▲ +6.1%
Lower than 70% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 25.5%
- 2016: 26.8%
- 2021: 27.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Alice Springs splits fairly evenly between 2 people (30%) and 1 person (27%), with 3 people at 17%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 17.5% of the total, a figure that is well above the Australian average and has risen slightly over the last decade. This is consistent with the Northern Territory average.
17.5% ▲ +7.0%
Higher than 62% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 16.4%
- 2016: 15.6%
- 2021: 17.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Alice Springs, Couples with children is the majority at 56%; Couples without children 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 Alice Springs [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/7001/alice-springs/topic/family-households