2.6 ▼ -3.7%
Higher than 79% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 2.7
- 2016: 2.7
- 2021: 2.6
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Kalgoorlie-Boulder · Council (LGA)
Family & Households in Kalgoorlie-Boulder
How families and households are made up across the area.
Very few differences exist between Kalgoorlie-Boulder and the rest of the country in terms of family life. Most homes here follow national patterns, though the area has a higher proportion of people living alone than the state average. Over the last decade, these single-person households have become more common, rising by 5 percentage points since 2011.
2.6
▼ -3.7%
- 1.5: 3 areas
- 1.6: 1 area
- 1.7: 1 area
- 1.8: 5 areas
- 1.9: 5 areas
- 2.0: 9 areas
- 2.1: 26 areas
- 2.2: 77 areas
- 2.3: 107 areas
- 2.4: 90 areas
- 2.5: 83 areas
- 2.6: 39 areas
- 2.7: 30 areas
- 2.8: 18 areas
- 2.9: 13 areas
- 3.0: 3 areas
- 3.1: 9 areas
- 3.2: 5 areas
- 3.3: 2 areas
- 3.4: 4 areas
- 3.5: 5 areas
- 3.6: 1 area
- 3.7: 3 areas
- 3.8: 2 areas
- 3.9: 1 area
- 4.0: 1 area
- 4.1: 2 areas
- 4.2: 2 areas
- 4.3: 0 areas
- 4.4: 0 areas
- 4.5: 1 area
- 4.6: 0 areas
- 4.7: 0 areas
- 4.8: 1 area
- 4.9: 1 area
All council (lga) areas, 2021. The marker is Kalgoorlie-Boulder — higher than 79% of areas.
| Kalgoorlie-Boulder | 2.6 |
|---|---|
| Rest of WA | 2.5 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
The typical home in Kalgoorlie-Boulder holds 2.6 people, which is much higher than most areas and slightly above the national figure of 2.5. While 27.3% of residents live alone, the most common household size is two people, making up 31.2% of homes.
27.3% ▲ +22.6%
Lower than 62% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 22.3%
- 2016: 24.5%
- 2021: 27.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Kalgoorlie-Boulder splits fairly evenly between 2 people (31%) and 1 person (27%), with 3 people at 16%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the majority of local families at 61.4%. One-parent families account for 13.4% of the total, a figure that is about the same as the Western Australian and national averages.
13.4% ▲ +6.5%
Lower than 52% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 12.5%
- 2016: 12.5%
- 2021: 13.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Couples with children is the majority at 61%; Couples without children is next at 24%.
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 Kalgoorlie-Boulder [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA54280/kalgoorlie-boulder/topic/family-households