Australian Bureau of Statistics 1301.0 - Year Book Australia,
2005 Previous ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME)
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30 June 2001 there were an estimated 7.4 million households in
Australia which were home to an estimated 19.1 million people,
or 98% of the resident population. Over the past 90 years the
number of households has increased by an average 2.4% per year,
compared with an average yearly increase in population of 1.6%.
This is reflected by the fall in average household size over the
period - from 4.5 persons per household in 1911 to 2.6 persons
per household in 2001 (graph 5.57). Much of this decline can be
attributed to reductions in completed family size and the
increase in numbers of one and two-person households. The number
of one-person households has grown largely as a result of the
ageing of the population, while a combination of ageing,
increased childlessness among couples and an increase in the
number of one-parent families h