2.4 ▲ +4.3%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.3
- 2016: 2.4
- 2021: 2.4
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Waitara · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Waitara
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people live alone in Waitara than in most similar areas, with 27.1% of households consisting of just one person. While the area is home to many single-person homes, the typical household size of 2.4 people is about the same as the national figure.
2.4
▲ +4.3%
- 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 Waitara — lower than 57% of areas.
| Waitara | 2.4 |
|---|---|
| 2077, NSW | 2.6 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Single-person households are a little more common here than in the rest of New South Wales. Two-person homes are the most frequent, making up 29.6% of all households.
27.1% ▼ -15.8%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.2%
- 2016: 27.2%
- 2021: 27.1%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →Waitara splits fairly evenly between 2 people (30%) and 1 person (27%), with 3 people at 23%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 64.3% of families in the area. The proportion of one-parent families is 10.9%, which is well below the national figure.
10.9% ▼ -6.8%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.7%
- 2016: 10.6%
- 2021: 10.9%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Waitara, Couples with children is the majority at 64%; Couples without children is next at 23%.
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 Waitara [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14104/waitara/topic/family-households