3.0 ▲ +15.4%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.6
- 2016: 3.0
- 2021: 3.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Boorooma · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Boorooma
How families and households are made up across the area.
Larger households are the norm in Boorooma, where the typical home holds three people. This makes the area much more crowded than most other similar places, with very few people living by themselves.
3.0
▲ +15.4%
- 1.5–1.6: 490 areas
- 1.6–1.8: 168 areas
- 1.8–1.9: 642 areas
- 1.9–2.1: 816 areas
- 2.1–2.2: 1854 areas
- 2.2–2.4: 1319 areas
- 2.4–2.5: 2753 areas
- 2.5–2.7: 1349 areas
- 2.7–2.8: 2332 areas
- 2.8–3.0: 805 areas
- 3.0–3.1: 1044 areas
- 3.1–3.3: 289 areas
- 3.3–3.4: 386 areas
- 3.4–3.6: 110 areas
- 3.6–3.7: 85 areas
- 3.7–3.9: 40 areas
- 3.9–4.0: 258 areas
All suburb / locality areas, 2021. The marker is Boorooma — higher than 86% of areas.
| Boorooma | 3.0 |
|---|---|
| 2650, NSW | 2.5 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Only 14.6% of people live alone, which is far below the national figure of 25.6%. This helps explain why the typical home has 3.0 people, a little above the New South Wales figure of 2.6.
14.6% ▲ +20.4%
Lower than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.1%
- 2016: 9.6%
- 2021: 14.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Boorooma splits fairly evenly between 2 people (26%) and 3 people (23%), with 4 people at 23%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Most families here are couples with children, making up 73.3% of the total. One-parent families account for 7.1%, which is well below the 14.1% seen across Australia.
7.1% ▲ +104.0%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.5%
- 2016: 7.8%
- 2021: 7.1%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Boorooma, Couples with children is the majority at 73%; Couples without children is next at 19%.
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 Boorooma [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10499/boorooma/topic/family-households