2.2 ▼ -33.3%
Lower than 64% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.3
- 2016: 3.1
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Kambalda East · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Kambalda East
How families and households are made up across the area.
A far higher proportion of people live alone in Kambalda East compared to the rest of the state. This shift has seen the typical household size drop significantly since 2011, resulting in a community where small, single-person homes are now very common.
2.2
▼ -33.3%
- 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 Kambalda East — lower than 64% of areas.
| Kambalda East | 2.2 |
|---|---|
| 6442, WA | 2.4 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 36.1% of people here live alone, which is far above the Western Australian figure of 25.4%. This trend helps explain why the number of people per home has fallen from 3.3 in 2011 to just 2.2 today.
36.1% ▲ +61.4%
Higher than 76% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 22.3%
- 2016: 8.8%
- 2021: 36.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Kambalda East splits fairly evenly between 1 person (37%) and 2 people (36%), with 4 people at 11%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 55.4% of families, while one-parent families account for 10.4%. This last figure is well below the national average of 14.1% and has fallen by 29 points since 2011.
10.4% ▼ -73.4%
Lower than 78% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 38.9%
- 2016: 4.8%
- 2021: 10.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Kambalda East, Couples with children is the majority at 56%; Couples without children is next at 31%.
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 Kambalda East [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL521027/kambalda-east/topic/family-households