2.7 → 0.0%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.7
- 2016: 2.5
- 2021: 2.7
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Boorcan · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Boorcan
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people share a roof in Boorcan than in most similar areas, with an average of 2.7 people per home. This is a place where a large majority of households are headed by couples with children, though there is also a notable number of people living on their own.
2.7
→ 0.0%
- 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 Boorcan — higher than 71% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 29.1% of people here live alone, which is well above the figures for Victoria and Australia. While two-person homes are the most common at 32.7%, larger households are frequent, with 12.7% of homes holding five people.
29.1% ▲ +47.9%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.7%
- 2016: 27.8%
- 2021: 29.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Boorcan splits fairly evenly between 2 people (31%) and 1 person (27%), with 3 people at 17%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up nearly 70% of families in the area. In contrast, one-parent families are much less common here than in most areas, at just 5.7%, which is well below the national figure.
5.7% ▲ +8.5%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.2%
- 2016: 7.0%
- 2021: 5.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Boorcan, Couples with children is the majority at 74%; Couples without children is next at 20%.
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 Boorcan [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20294/boorcan/topic/family-households