1.8 ▼ -18.2%
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2
- 2016: 1.9
- 2021: 1.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Boydtown · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Boydtown
How families and households are made up across the area.
Fewer people per home than most similar areas is a defining feature of Boydtown. The typical household is very small, with just 1.8 people living in each dwelling, which is well below the national figure of 2.5.
1.8
▼ -18.2%
- 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 Boydtown — lower than 91% of areas.
| Boydtown | 1.8 |
|---|---|
| 2551, NSW | 2.2 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 33.3% of people live alone, a rate well above the New South Wales figure of 25%. This helps explain why the area has some of the lowest occupancy rates around, with 43.6% of homes housing just two people.
33.3% ▲ +13.3%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.4%
- 2016: 23.3%
- 2021: 33.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Boydtown, the largest group is 2 people at 49%, followed by 1 person (37%) and 3 people (14%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 45.2% of families here, while 42.9% are couples without children. One-parent families account for 11.9%, which is a little below the national figure of 14.1%.
11.9% ▼ -9.0%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.1%
- 2016: 6.1%
- 2021: 11.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →Boydtown splits fairly evenly between Couples with children (45%) and Couples without children (43%), with One-parent families at 12%.
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 Boydtown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10539/boydtown/topic/family-households