4.0 ▲ +66.7%
Higher than 97% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 5.0
- 2021: 4.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Kalumburu · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Kalumburu
How families and households are made up across the area.
Nearly half of all families in Kalumburu consist of couples with children. This is a place where large households are the norm, with the typical home now holding 4.0 people, a figure far above the national average of 2.5.
4.0
▲ +66.7%
- 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 Kalumburu — higher than 97% of areas.
| Kalumburu | 4.0 |
|---|---|
| 6740, WA | 3.0 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are much larger than in most areas, and those with six or more people make up 31.8% of the total. Meanwhile, the share of people living alone has dropped sharply since 2011 to just 18.8%, which is well below the Western Australian figure.
18.8% ▼ -46.5%
Lower than 80% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 35.2%
- 2016: 10.0%
- 2021: 18.8%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Kalumburu, the largest group is 6 or more at 33%, followed by 1 person (20%) and 5 people (16%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Single parenthood is very common here, as one-parent families make up 37% of the total. This is far above the national figure of 14.1% and represents a rise of 17 percentage points since 2011.
37.0% ▲ +84.8%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 20.0%
- 2016: 35.0%
- 2021: 37.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Kalumburu, the largest group is Couples with children at 49%, followed by One-parent families (37%) and Couples without children (11%).
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 Kalumburu [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL522032/kalumburu/topic/family-households