1.8 —
Lower than 99% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Waterloo · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Family & Households in Waterloo
How families and households are made up across the area.
A shift toward smaller living arrangements has seen Waterloo become a place where single-person homes are now very common. Small households dominate the area, with the typical home containing only 1.8 people, which is well below the national figure of 2.5.
1.8
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- 1.0: 7 areas
- 1.1: 0 areas
- 1.2: 1 area
- 1.3: 3 areas
- 1.4: 6 areas
- 1.5: 9 areas
- 1.6: 3 areas
- 1.7: 13 areas
- 1.8: 28 areas
- 1.9: 37 areas
- 2.0: 54 areas
- 2.1: 115 areas
- 2.2: 188 areas
- 2.3: 287 areas
- 2.4: 258 areas
- 2.5: 272 areas
- 2.6: 246 areas
- 2.7: 211 areas
- 2.8: 190 areas
- 2.9: 149 areas
- 3.0: 119 areas
- 3.1: 66 areas
- 3.2: 44 areas
- 3.3: 38 areas
- 3.4: 30 areas
- 3.5: 10 areas
- 3.6: 8 areas
- 3.7: 5 areas
- 3.8: 4 areas
- 3.9: 2 areas
- 4.0: 3 areas
- 4.1: 1 area
- 4.2: 1 area
- 4.3: 2 areas
- 4.4: 0 areas
- 4.5: 1 area
- 4.6: 0 areas
- 4.7: 0 areas
- 4.8: 1 area
- 4.9: 0 areas
- 5.0: 2 areas
- 5.1: 1 area
- 5.2: 0 areas
- 5.3: 0 areas
- 5.4: 0 areas
- 5.5: 0 areas
- 5.6: 0 areas
- 5.7: 0 areas
- 5.8: 0 areas
- 5.9: 0 areas
- 6.0: 2 areas
All statistical area 2 (sa2) areas, 2021. The marker is Waterloo — lower than 99% of areas.
| Waterloo | 1.8 |
|---|---|
| 2017, NSW | 1.9 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Living alone is very common here, with 40.5% of people in their own home—far above the New South Wales figure of 25%. This explains why the area has some of the lowest numbers of people per home across the region.
40.5% —
Higher than 96% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Waterloo splits fairly evenly between 2 people (42%) and 1 person (41%), with 3 people at 12%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples without children make up the largest group of families at 55.9%. Meanwhile, one-parent families account for 11.9% of the total, which is a little below the Australian average of 14.1%.
11.9% —
Lower than 62% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Waterloo, Couples without children is the majority at 56%; Couples with children is next at 30%.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Family & Households in Waterloo [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/117031647/waterloo/topic/family-households