2.6 ▼ -16.1%
Higher than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.1
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 2.6
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Mataranka · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Mataranka
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far fewer one-parent families live in Mataranka compared to the rest of the Northern Territory. While 45% of families here are couples with children, a growing number of people are living on their own. The usual home holds 2.6 people, which is about the same as the national figure.
2.6
▼ -16.1%
- 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 Mataranka — higher than 71% of areas.
| Mataranka | 2.6 |
|---|---|
| 0852, NT | 4.0 |
| Northern Territory | 2.8 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 31.2% of people in Mataranka live alone, which is well above the Australian figure of 25.6%. This is a rising trend from 2011, though the typical number of people per home has dropped from 3.1 to 2.6 over the same period.
31.2% ▲ +11.4%
Higher than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 28.0%
- 2016: 46.2%
- 2021: 31.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Mataranka splits fairly evenly between 2 people (33%) and 1 person (31%), with 4 people at 14%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up only 9.1% of the total, a figure that is well below the 17.5% seen across the Northern Territory. This is a sharp drop from 2011, when the proportion was 26.3%.
9.1% ▼ -65.4%
Lower than 85% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 26.3%
- 2016: 8.1%
- 2021: 9.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Mataranka splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (46%) and Couples without children (43%), with One-parent families at 9%.
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 Mataranka [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL722020/mataranka/topic/family-households