2.6 → 0.0%
Higher than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.6
- 2016: 2.7
- 2021: 2.6
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Kalgoorlie - Boulder · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Kalgoorlie - Boulder
How families and households are made up across the area.
Fewer one-parent families have lived in Kalgoorlie - Boulder since 2011, where that figure fell by 3.9 percentage points. The area's household patterns remain steady, with a typical home holding 2.6 people. This is slightly more than the national figure.
2.6
→ 0.0%
- 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 Kalgoorlie - Boulder — higher than 71% of areas.
| Kalgoorlie - Boulder | 2.6 |
|---|---|
| 6430, WA | 2.6 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 27.2% of people live alone, which is a little above the national figure and has risen since 2011. Two-person households are the most common at 31.2%, followed by one-person homes.
27.2% ▲ +5.8%
Lower than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 25.7%
- 2016: 24.5%
- 2021: 27.2%
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 largest group at 61.4%. One-parent families account for 13.4% of the total, which is lower than most similar areas and about the same as the state and national figures.
13.4% ▼ -22.5%
Lower than 61% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 17.3%
- 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/ucl/UCL512004/kalgoorlie-boulder/topic/family-households