Number of female-headed households in South Africa 2021, by province
the total number of South African households was close to 18 million.
In 2021, around 7.6 million households in South Africa were led by women. Of those, the majority were in Gauteng, with 1.5 million female-headed households. KwaZulu-Natal, Western Cape, and Eastern Cape followed
with 1.5 million, 900,000, and 900,000, respectively. As of the same year,