2.8 ▲ +3.7%
Higher than 79% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.7
- 2016: 3.1
- 2021: 2.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Kimberley (Mining and Pastoral) · State Electorate
Family & Households in Kimberley (Mining and Pastoral)
How families and households are made up across the area.
One-parent families are far more common in Kimberley (Mining and Pastoral) than in the rest of the state. This region's family structures differ sharply from national trends, with a high proportion of single parents and homes that are generally more crowded than the Australian average.
2.8
▲ +3.7%
- 1.5: 1 area
- 1.6: 0 areas
- 1.7: 1 area
- 1.8: 2 areas
- 1.9: 3 areas
- 2.0: 4 areas
- 2.1: 7 areas
- 2.2: 23 areas
- 2.3: 65 areas
- 2.4: 66 areas
- 2.5: 72 areas
- 2.6: 51 areas
- 2.7: 44 areas
- 2.8: 32 areas
- 2.9: 28 areas
- 3.0: 11 areas
- 3.1: 10 areas
- 3.2: 10 areas
- 3.3: 2 areas
- 3.4: 0 areas
- 3.5: 1 area
- 3.6: 0 areas
- 3.7: 0 areas
- 3.8: 0 areas
- 3.9: 1 area
- 4.0: 1 area
- 4.1: 1 area
All state electorate areas, 2021. The marker is Kimberley (Mining and Pastoral) — higher than 79% of areas.
| Kimberley (Mining and Pastoral) | 2.8 |
|---|---|
| Rest of WA | 2.5 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are more crowded than usual, with 2.8 people per home compared to the national figure of 2.5. While a typical home has two people, those living alone make up 25.9% of households, a figure that has risen since 2011.
25.9% ▲ +11.8%
Higher than 51% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 23.2%
- 2016: 28.5%
- 2021: 25.9%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Kimberley (Mining and Pastoral) splits fairly evenly between 2 people (29%) and 1 person (26%), with 3 people at 15%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Single-parent families make up 23.9% of the total, which is far above the Western Australian rate of 13.5%. This is a significant increase from 2011, when only 13.7% of families were headed by one parent.
23.9% ▲ +74.1%
Higher than 99% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 13.7%
- 2016: 23.0%
- 2021: 23.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Kimberley (Mining and Pastoral), Couples with children is the majority at 53%; One-parent families 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 Kimberley (Mining and Pastoral) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED52903/kimberley/topic/family-households