3.3 ▼ -2.9%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.4
- 2016: 3.5
- 2021: 3.3
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Waterways · Suburb / Locality
Family & Households in Waterways
How families and households are made up across the area.
More than three people usually live in each Waterways home, which is well above the national figure of 2.5. This is a high-density family area where very few people live alone. The community is overwhelmingly made up of couples raising children together.
3.3
▼ -2.9%
- 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 Waterways — higher than 91% of areas.
Households
Average household size.
With 3.3 people per home, household sizes here are among the highest for similar areas. Only 6.5% of people live alone, a figure far below the 25.6% seen across Australia.
6.5% ▼ -20.9%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.2%
- 2016: 6.7%
- 2021: 6.5%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Waterways, the largest group is 4 people at 32%, followed by 2 people (24%) and 3 people (21%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 75.7% of families, while one-parent families are at 8.4%. This is well below the national figure of 14.1%.
8.4% ▲ +156.8%
Lower than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.3%
- 2016: 6.4%
- 2021: 8.4%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Waterways, Couples with children is the majority at 76%; Couples without children is next at 15%.
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 Waterways [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22720/waterways/topic/family-households