3.0 —
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.8
- 2021: 3.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Boxwood Hill · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Boxwood Hill
How families and households are made up across the area.
Far fewer people live alone in Boxwood Hill than in the rest of the country. This is a place where large households are common, with a typical home holding 3.0 people, which is a little above the national figure.
3.0
—
- 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 Boxwood Hill — higher than 86% of areas.
| Boxwood Hill | 3.0 |
|---|---|
| 6338, WA | 2.3 |
| Western Australia | 2.5 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes in Boxwood Hill are larger than most areas, with 36% of households containing four people and 20% having five. Only 16% of people live alone, which is well below the Western Australian figure of 25.4%.
16.0% —
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 41.4%
- 2021: 16.0%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Boxwood Hill splits fairly evenly between 4 people (31%) and 2 people (28%), with 5 people at 17%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Almost every family here is a couple, with 68.1% raising children and 31.9% without. Notably, there are no one-parent families, a figure far below the 14.1% national average.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Boxwood Hill, Couples with children is the majority at 68%; Couples without children is next at 32%.
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 Boxwood Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50167/boxwood-hill/topic/family-households