3.5 ▼ -34.0%
Higher than 92% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.3
- 2016: 3.5
- 2021: 3.5
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Borroloola · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Borroloola
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far more people live in one-parent families in Borroloola than in the rest of the country. This is a place where homes are typically much larger than the national figure, though the number of people per household has dropped from 5.3 to 3.5 since 2011.
3.5
▼ -34.0%
- 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 Borroloola — higher than 92% of areas.
| Borroloola | 3.5 |
|---|---|
| 0854, NT | 3.5 |
| Northern Territory | 2.8 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Borroloola has an average of 3.5 people per home, which is well above the Northern Territory's 2.8. While 22.8% of people now live alone—a rise of 20 points since 2011—about 20.7% of households still contain six or more people.
22.8% ▲ +659.0%
Lower than 70% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.0%
- 2016: 20.7%
- 2021: 22.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Borroloola splits fairly evenly between 2 people (24%) and 1 person (23%), with 6 or more at 21%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 28.5% of the total, a figure far above the 14.1% seen across Australia. This proportion has risen by 11 points since 2011, while couples with children remain the most common family type at 52.1%.
28.5% ▲ +59.6%
Higher than 91% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 17.9%
- 2016: 31.3%
- 2021: 28.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Borroloola, Couples with children is the majority at 52%; One-parent families is next at 29%.
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 Borroloola [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL721003/borroloola/topic/family-households