2.6 ▲ +8.3%
Higher than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.6
- 2021: 2.6
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Kununurra · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Kununurra
How families and households are made up across the area.
Single-parent families are far more common in Kununurra than in the rest of the country. This creates a distinct family landscape where one in four families are led by a single parent, a figure well above the national average. Most households here are small, with 30.8% containing just two people.
2.6
▲ +8.3%
- 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 Kununurra — higher than 71% of areas.
| Kununurra | 2.6 |
|---|---|
| 6743, WA | 2.7 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes in Kununurra are slightly more crowded than the national figure, with a typical 2.6 people per house. The number of people living alone has fallen since 2011 to 26.4%, which is lower than in most similar areas.
26.4% ▼ -10.9%
Lower than 60% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 29.7%
- 2016: 26.8%
- 2021: 26.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Kununurra splits fairly evenly between 2 people (31%) and 1 person (27%), with 3 people at 17%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 24% of the total, which is far above the Western Australian figure of 13.5%. This proportion has risen by 6.9 percentage points since 2011, while couples with children remain the largest group at 50.2%.
24.0% ▲ +40.3%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 17.1%
- 2016: 22.2%
- 2021: 24.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Kununurra, Couples with children is the majority at 50%; 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 Kununurra [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL515020/kununurra/topic/family-households