, 2021 released by Statistics South Africa, shows that approximately one-quarter of households were single-person households, while 13.9% had six members or more. In KwaZulu-Natal, a fifth of all households contained more than five members.
The largest percentage of households contained two generations , while 13.6% contained three generations, and 4.6% could be considered skip-generation households where grandparents lived with their grandchildren. In addition to the 23.3% of single person households, 13.8% of households were comprised of partners co-residing in single-generation households.
Pit toilets with ventilations pipes were most common in Eastern Cape while pit toilets without ventilation pipes were most common in Limpopo . Approximately 94% of households in income quintile 5 used a flush toilet compared to 43.3% of quintile 1 households.Household refuse was removed at least once per week or less often for 62,9% of all households, while more than one-third of households had to rely on communal or their own refuse dumps.
An income quintile is a method to measure the average household income of residents, ranking them from poorest to wealthiest, and then grouping them into five income quintiles , each quintile containing approximately 20% of households.More than three-quarters of households had access to the internet in one way or the other, but only 10,4% of households could access the internet at home using fibre or ADSL.
However, in Eastern Cape, the percentage of households that received grants as a main source of income exceeded those that received salaries and wages .