2.2 ▼ -8.3%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.2
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Box Hill · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Box Hill
How families and households are made up across the area.
Fewer people share a home in Box Hill than in most similar areas, with a typical household of just 2.2 people. This trend is driven by a high number of residents living on their own, which is well above the national figure.
2.2
▼ -8.3%
- 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 Box Hill — lower than 76% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
About 33% of people in Box Hill live alone, a figure well above the Victorian average of 25.9%. Most homes are small, with 37.6% housing two people and 33% housing one person.
33.0% ▲ +9.0%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.2%
- 2016: 30.6%
- 2021: 33.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Box Hill splits fairly evenly between 2 people (38%) and 1 person (33%), with 3 people at 15%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 44.2% of families here, while 14.5% are one-parent families, which is higher than most other areas.
14.5% ▲ +10.5%
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.1%
- 2016: 13.6%
- 2021: 14.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Box Hill, the largest group is Couples with children at 44%, followed by Couples without children (38%) and One-parent families (14%).
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/sal/SAL20314/box-hill/topic/family-households