3.4 ▼ -26.1%
Higher than 91% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.6
- 2016: 3.4
- 2021: 3.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Milikapiti · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Milikapiti
How families and households are made up across the area.
Fewer people are living in each home in Milikapiti than they were in 2011. The area is now defined by larger-than-average households, with a typical home holding 3.4 people, which is well above the national figure of 2.5.
3.4
▼ -26.1%
- 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 Milikapiti — higher than 91% of areas.
| Milikapiti | 3.4 |
|---|---|
| 0822, NT | 3.8 |
| Northern Territory | 2.8 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
While home sizes have shrunk since 2011, the number of people per home remains among the highest for similar areas. Only 21.6% of people live alone, which is well below the Australian average of 25.6%.
21.6% ▲ +43.0%
Lower than 73% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 15.1%
- 2016: 13.5%
- 2021: 21.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Milikapiti splits fairly evenly between 1 person (22%) and 4 people (17%), with 6 or more at 17%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 26.4% of the total, a figure far above the national average of 14.1%. This proportion has fallen by 5.4 percentage points since 2011, while couples with children remain the most common family type at 55.6%.
26.4% ▼ -16.9%
Higher than 89% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 31.7%
- 2016: 21.8%
- 2021: 26.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Milikapiti, Couples with children is the majority at 54%; One-parent families is next at 26%.
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 Milikapiti [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL722021/milikapiti/topic/family-households