3.8 ▲ +2.7%
Higher than 95% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.7
- 2016: 4.1
- 2021: 3.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Elliott · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Elliott
How families and households are made up across the area.
Large households are a defining feature of Elliott, where people per home is among the highest at this level. This is a community of mostly large families, with very few people living alone compared to the rest of the country.
3.8
▲ +2.7%
- 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 Elliott — higher than 95% of areas.
| Elliott | 3.8 |
|---|---|
| 0862, NT | 3.1 |
| Northern Territory | 2.8 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Typically, 3.8 people live in each home, which is well above the national figure of 2.5. This high density is reflected in the fact that only 14.7% of people live alone, a figure that is far below the Australian average and has fallen since 2011.
14.7% ▼ -35.3%
Lower than 89% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 22.7%
- 2016: 19.2%
- 2021: 14.7%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Elliott splits fairly evenly between 6 or more (21%) and 3 people (20%), with 4 people at 20%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 36.7% of the area, which is far above the Northern Territory's 17.5%. This proportion has risen by 11 percentage points since 2011, while couples with children account for 52.2% of families.
36.7% ▲ +44.7%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 25.3%
- 2016: 34.8%
- 2021: 36.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Elliott, Couples with children is the majority at 52%; One-parent families is next at 37%.
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 Elliott [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL722014/elliott/topic/family-households