Number of bedrooms explained Place Forecast Feature
Abbreviated as BEDD; referenced by 0 other explainers
Number of bedrooms shows how many bedrooms the homes in an area have. It counts occupied private dwellings, the homes people were living in on Census night.
These figures are Place Forecast estimates based on Census data published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
There are eight categories:
- None (a studio or bedsitter).
- One bedroom.
- Two bedrooms.
- Three bedrooms.
- Four bedrooms.
- Five bedrooms.
- Six or more bedrooms.
- Not stated.
A studio or bedsitter is a home with no separate bedroom. It is counted as having no bedrooms.
Empty homes are not counted. Nor are non-private dwellings, such as hotels, hospitals, aged-care homes, or hostels.
Two ABS household groups are left out here. They are Visitor only homes and homes that do not fit a group. So the total here sits a little below the full ABS count of homes for the area.
Not stated covers homes where the question was left blank. It also covers homes that did not return a Census form.
Each home is counted once, whatever its size or the number of people in it. To see how big households are, look at average household size. To see the type of home, such as a house or a flat, look at dwelling structure.
Reading this data fairly
These figures show how people answered Census questions. Here are the equity caveats to keep in mind. They keep the numbers fair:
- In Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander kinship, and in many culturally and linguistically diverse households, care is shared across many adults and homes. A bedroom count does not show how a household shares its space.
- Read each bedroom count as a count of homes. It is not a measure of need or a judgement about the people who live in them.
See the marker methodology for how these figures are calculated and their limitations.