3.1 ▲ +14.8%
Higher than 88% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.7
- 2016: 2.8
- 2021: 3.1
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Kitchener · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Kitchener
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people share each home in Kitchener (L) than in most similar areas, creating a community of larger households. The typical home now holds 3.1 people, which is a little above the national figure of 2.5.
3.1
▲ +14.8%
- 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 Kitchener — higher than 88% of areas.
| Kitchener | 3.1 |
|---|---|
| 2325, NSW | 2.5 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are larger than usual, with a little more people per home than in New South Wales. This is consistent with the fact that only 15.2% of people live alone, a figure far below the Australian average of 25.6%.
15.2% ▼ -20.8%
Lower than 88% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 19.2%
- 2016: 9.2%
- 2021: 15.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Kitchener splits fairly evenly between 2 people (28%) and 4 people (23%), with 3 people at 17%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Most families are couples with children, making up 68.7% of the total. One-parent families account for 15.2%, a figure that has risen by 9.1 percentage points since 2011.
15.2% ▲ +150.4%
Higher than 51% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.1%
- 2016: 5.0%
- 2021: 15.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Kitchener, Couples with children is the majority at 69%; One-parent families is next at 15%.
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 Kitchener [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL121061/kitchener/topic/family-households