2.3 ▼ -8.0%
Lower than 71% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 2.5
- 2016: 2.5
- 2021: 2.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Box Hill · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Family & Households in Box Hill
How families and households are made up across the area.
Small living spaces and a high number of single-person homes shape the daily experience in Box Hill. While the typical home holds 2.3 people, about 30% of households consist of just one person, which is well above the national figure.
2.3
▼ -8.0%
- 1.0: 7 areas
- 1.1: 0 areas
- 1.2: 1 area
- 1.3: 3 areas
- 1.4: 6 areas
- 1.5: 9 areas
- 1.6: 3 areas
- 1.7: 13 areas
- 1.8: 28 areas
- 1.9: 37 areas
- 2.0: 54 areas
- 2.1: 115 areas
- 2.2: 188 areas
- 2.3: 287 areas
- 2.4: 258 areas
- 2.5: 272 areas
- 2.6: 246 areas
- 2.7: 211 areas
- 2.8: 190 areas
- 2.9: 149 areas
- 3.0: 119 areas
- 3.1: 66 areas
- 3.2: 44 areas
- 3.3: 38 areas
- 3.4: 30 areas
- 3.5: 10 areas
- 3.6: 8 areas
- 3.7: 5 areas
- 3.8: 4 areas
- 3.9: 2 areas
- 4.0: 3 areas
- 4.1: 1 area
- 4.2: 1 area
- 4.3: 2 areas
- 4.4: 0 areas
- 4.5: 1 area
- 4.6: 0 areas
- 4.7: 0 areas
- 4.8: 1 area
- 4.9: 0 areas
- 5.0: 2 areas
- 5.1: 1 area
- 5.2: 0 areas
- 5.3: 0 areas
- 5.4: 0 areas
- 5.5: 0 areas
- 5.6: 0 areas
- 5.7: 0 areas
- 5.8: 0 areas
- 5.9: 0 areas
- 6.0: 2 areas
All statistical area 2 (sa2) areas, 2021. The marker is Box Hill — lower than 71% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
More people in Box Hill live alone compared to most areas, with this figure rising to 30.4% since 2011. This helps explain why the typical home has 2.3 people, which is a little below the Victorian average of 2.5.
30.4% ▲ +4.7%
Higher than 73% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 29.0%
- 2016: 28.5%
- 2021: 30.4%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Box Hill splits fairly evenly between 2 people (34%) and 1 person (30%), with 3 people at 16%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 53.4% of families here, while 30.7% are couples without children. One-parent families account for 13.4%, a figure that is about the same as the state and national averages.
13.4% ▲ +4.0%
Higher than 53% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 12.9%
- 2016: 13.3%
- 2021: 13.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Box Hill, Couples with children is the majority at 53%; 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 Box Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/207031163/box-hill/topic/family-households