2.5 —
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.2
- 2021: 2.5
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Waverly · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Waverly
How families and households are made up across the area.
Couples with children make up 51.7% of families in Waverly, the most common family type in the area. This small community has very few people living alone and a higher than usual rate of one-parent families.
2.5
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- 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 Waverly — higher than 50% of areas.
| Waverly | 2.5 |
|---|---|
| 2337, NSW | 2.4 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Most homes in Waverly house two people, while only 12% of residents live alone, which is far below the national figure of 25.6%. On average, 2.5 people live in each home, about the same as the typical Australian household.
12.0% —
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Waverly, 2 people is the majority at 63%; 4 people is next at 25%.
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
One-parent families make up 17.2% of the total, which is well above the New South Wales rate of 14%. Other families in the area are mostly couples, with 39.7% being couples without children.
17.2% —
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 17.2%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Waverly, the largest group is Couples with children at 48%, followed by Couples without children (37%) and One-parent families (16%).
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 Waverly [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14218/waverly/topic/family-households