3.9 ▲ +62.5%
Higher than 96% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.3
- 2021: 3.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Warakurna · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Warakurna
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly half of all families in Warakuna are led by a single parent, marking the most common family type in the area. This high proportion of one-parent homes contributes to very large households, with the typical home now holding almost four people.
3.9
▲ +62.5%
- 1.2: 1 area
- 1.3: 0 areas
- 1.4: 0 areas
- 1.5: 3 areas
- 1.6: 3 areas
- 1.7: 18 areas
- 1.8: 37 areas
- 1.9: 87 areas
- 2.0: 173 areas
- 2.1: 203 areas
- 2.2: 204 areas
- 2.3: 216 areas
- 2.4: 164 areas
- 2.5: 136 areas
- 2.6: 109 areas
- 2.7: 94 areas
- 2.8: 81 areas
- 2.9: 65 areas
- 3.0: 52 areas
- 3.1: 36 areas
- 3.2: 16 areas
- 3.3: 18 areas
- 3.4: 9 areas
- 3.5: 11 areas
- 3.6: 5 areas
- 3.7: 7 areas
- 3.8: 5 areas
- 3.9: 11 areas
- 4.0: 9 areas
- 4.1: 2 areas
- 4.2: 6 areas
- 4.3: 4 areas
- 4.4: 6 areas
- 4.5: 5 areas
- 4.6: 4 areas
- 4.7: 3 areas
- 4.8: 1 area
- 4.9: 3 areas
- 5.0: 3 areas
- 5.1: 0 areas
- 5.2: 2 areas
- 5.3: 0 areas
- 5.4: 1 area
- 5.5: 1 area
- 5.6: 1 area
- 5.7: 2 areas
- 5.8: 0 areas
- 5.9: 1 area
- 6.0: 0 areas
- 6.1: 2 areas
All urban centre areas, 2021. The marker is Warakurna — higher than 96% of areas.
| Warakurna | 3.9 |
|---|---|
| 0872 crosses NT/SA/WA | 3.6 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes in Warakurna are much more crowded than the national figure, with an average of 3.9 people per dwelling. This is a sharp increase from 2011, while the number of people living alone has fallen significantly to 14.6%.
14.6% ▼ -54.8%
Lower than 89% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 32.4%
- 2016: 34.0%
- 2021: 14.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Warakurna, the largest group is 6 or more at 27%, followed by 5 people (19%) and 2 people (17%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 45% of the total, a figure far above the 14.1% national average. This proportion has risen by 16 points since 2011, making single-parent homes more common here than couples with children.
45.0% ▲ +54.7%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 29.1%
- 2016: 16.9%
- 2021: 45.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Warakurna splits fairly evenly between One-parent families (45%) and Couples with children (41%), with Couples without children at 12%.
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 Warakurna [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL522063/warakurna/topic/family-households