2.4 ▼ -7.7%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.6
- 2016: 2.5
- 2021: 2.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Kangaroo Gully · Suburb / Locality
How families and households are made up across the area.
Few changes have seen the way people live in Kangaroo Gully over the last decade, though it remains an area where few people live alone. Most homes are shared, with a typical resident living with at least one other person.
All suburb / locality areas, 2021. The marker is Kangaroo Gully — lower than 57% of areas.
| Kangaroo Gully | 2.4 |
|---|---|
| 6255, WA | 2.3 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Average household size.
Two-person households are very common here, making up 55.6% of all homes. Only 17.9% of people live alone, which is well below the national figure of 25.6%.
2.4 ▼ -7.7%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
Average number of people usually resident per household.
17.9% ▲ +15.4%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
In Kangaroo Gully, 2 people is the majority at 56%; 1 person is next at 18%.
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples make up the vast majority of families, with 48.4% having no children and 43.6% with children. Only 8.3% of families are one-parent households, which is much lower than the 14.1% seen across Australia.
8.3% ▼ -7.2%
Lower than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Kangaroo Gully splits fairly evenly between Couples without children (48%) and Couples with children (43%), with One-parent families at 8%.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Family & Households in Kangaroo Gully [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50719/kangaroo-gully/topic/family-households