3.0 ▼ -9.1%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.3
- 2016: 2.9
- 2021: 3.0
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Waterfall · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Waterfall
How families and households are made up across the area.
Much larger households than most similar areas define Waterfall, where homes typically hold 3.0 people. This is a family-heavy community with a very low proportion of people living alone compared to the rest of the country.
3.0
▼ -9.1%
- 1.2: 1 area
- 1.3: 0 areas
- 1.4: 0 areas
- 1.5: 3 areas
- 1.6: 3 areas
- 1.7: 18 areas
- 1.8: 37 areas
- 1.9: 87 areas
- 2.0: 173 areas
- 2.1: 203 areas
- 2.2: 204 areas
- 2.3: 216 areas
- 2.4: 164 areas
- 2.5: 136 areas
- 2.6: 109 areas
- 2.7: 94 areas
- 2.8: 81 areas
- 2.9: 65 areas
- 3.0: 52 areas
- 3.1: 36 areas
- 3.2: 16 areas
- 3.3: 18 areas
- 3.4: 9 areas
- 3.5: 11 areas
- 3.6: 5 areas
- 3.7: 7 areas
- 3.8: 5 areas
- 3.9: 11 areas
- 4.0: 9 areas
- 4.1: 2 areas
- 4.2: 6 areas
- 4.3: 4 areas
- 4.4: 6 areas
- 4.5: 5 areas
- 4.6: 4 areas
- 4.7: 3 areas
- 4.8: 1 area
- 4.9: 3 areas
- 5.0: 3 areas
- 5.1: 0 areas
- 5.2: 2 areas
- 5.3: 0 areas
- 5.4: 1 area
- 5.5: 1 area
- 5.6: 1 area
- 5.7: 2 areas
- 5.8: 0 areas
- 5.9: 1 area
- 6.0: 0 areas
- 6.1: 2 areas
All urban centre areas, 2021. The marker is Waterfall — higher than 87% of areas.
| Waterfall | 3.0 |
|---|---|
| 2233, NSW | 2.9 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
Typical homes here are larger than the national figure, although the average number of people per home has dipped since 2011. While 17.3% of people live alone, this is well below the 25.6% seen across Australia.
17.3% ▲ +130.4%
Lower than 84% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 7.5%
- 2016: 28.1%
- 2021: 17.3%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Waterfall, the largest group is 2 people at 29%, followed by 4 people (22%) and 1 person (17%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up the majority of families at 63.7%. One-parent families account for 14.5% of the total, which is about the same as the New South Wales and national figures.
14.5% ▲ +94.2%
Lower than 54% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 7.5%
- 2016: 41.4%
- 2021: 14.5%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Waterfall, Couples with children is the majority at 64%; Couples without children is next at 21%.
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 Waterfall [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL121118/waterfall/topic/family-households