3.9 ▼ -4.9%
Higher than 96% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.1
- 2016: 3.7
- 2021: 3.9
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Mutitjulu · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Mutitjulu
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than half of all families in Mutitjulu are couples with children, making up 57.7% of the total. This creates a community with very large households, though the number of people living alone has grown since 2011.
3.9
▼ -4.9%
- 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 Mutitjulu — higher than 96% of areas.
| Mutitjulu | 3.9 |
|---|---|
| 0872 crosses NT/SA/WA | 3.6 |
| Northern Territory | 2.8 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are much larger than the national figure, with a typical 3.9 people per dwelling. This helps explain why 27.9% of households contain six or more people, although the number of people living alone rose to 21.3% over the last decade.
21.3% ▲ +49.2%
Lower than 74% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 14.3%
- 2016: 27.3%
- 2021: 21.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Mutitjulu, the largest group is 6 or more at 30%, followed by 1 person (23%) and 5 people (18%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 18.4% of the community, which is well above the Australian figure. This is a notable drop from 2011, when that figure was 27.1%.
18.4% ▼ -32.1%
Higher than 70% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 27.1%
- 2016: 26.9%
- 2021: 18.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Mutitjulu, Couples with children is the majority at 58%; One-parent families is next at 19%.
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 Mutitjulu [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL722023/mutitjulu/topic/family-households