4.0 ▼ -24.5%
Higher than 97% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.3
- 2016: 4.4
- 2021: 4.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Amoonguna · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Amoonguna
How families and households are made up across the area.
Four people per home is the typical experience in Amoonguna, making it an area of unusually large households. This is a place where very few people live alone, and more than half of all families are headed by a single parent.
4.0
▼ -24.5%
- 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 Amoonguna — higher than 97% of areas.
| Amoonguna | 4.0 |
|---|---|
| 0873, NT | 2.6 |
| Northern Territory | 2.8 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The usual home here is far larger than the national figure, though the count dropped from 5.3 people in 2011 to 4.0 in 2021. Only 5.6% of people live alone, which is far below the Northern Territory average of 23.8%.
5.6% ▼ -67.4%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 17.0%
- 2016: 16.3%
- 2021: 5.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Amoonguna splits fairly evenly between 4 people (26%) and 6 or more (26%), with 2 people at 21%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 51.5% of the area, a figure that rose 24 points since 2011. This is far above the national average of 14.1% and is among the highest proportions seen in similar areas.
51.5% ▲ +86.5%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 27.6%
- 2016: 42.1%
- 2021: 51.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Amoonguna, One-parent families is the majority at 52%; Couples with children is next at 33%.
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 Amoonguna [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL722004/amoonguna/topic/family-households