2.7 → 0.0%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.7
- 2016: 2.7
- 2021: 2.7
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Mount Waverley · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Mount Waverley
How families and households are made up across the area.
More people share a home in Mount Waverley than in most similar areas. This is a family-focused community where 65.7% of families are couples with children, contributing to a typical household size of 2.7 people.
2.7
→ 0.0%
- 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 Mount Waverley — higher than 71% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
The area has far fewer people living alone than the state or national figures, at just 19.2%. This helps explain why the typical home here has 2.7 people, which is higher than most other areas.
19.2% ▼ -7.2%
Lower than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.7%
- 2016: 19.8%
- 2021: 19.2%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Mount Waverley, the largest group is 2 people at 30%, followed by 4 people (22%) and 1 person (19%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the largest group at 65.7%, while one-parent families account for 11.0%. This last figure is well below the national average of 14.1%.
11.0% ▼ -2.3%
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.2%
- 2016: 11.1%
- 2021: 11.0%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Mount Waverley, Couples with children is the majority at 66%; Couples without children is next at 22%.
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 Mount Waverley [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21816/mount-waverley/topic/family-households