1.8 ▼ -5.3%
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.9
- 2016: 2.0
- 2021: 1.8
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Waterloo · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Waterloo
How families and households are made up across the area.
Forty-one percent of people in Waterloo live alone, which is one of the highest rates for any similar area. This makes the community stand out as a place where single-person households are far more common than in the rest of the state.
1.8
▼ -5.3%
- 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 Waterloo — lower than 91% of areas.
| Waterloo | 1.8 |
|---|---|
| 2017, NSW | 1.9 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Homes here are much smaller than the national figure, with only 1.8 people per home. This is well below the Australian average of 2.5, reflecting the fact that 40.5% of residents live by themselves.
40.5% ▼ -8.1%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 44.0%
- 2016: 38.0%
- 2021: 40.5%
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%. One-parent families account for 11.9%, which is a little below the figures for both New South Wales and Australia.
11.9% ▼ -44.7%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.6%
- 2016: 16.0%
- 2021: 11.9%
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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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/sal/SAL14201/waterloo/topic/family-households