2.7 ▲ +8.0%
Higher than 76% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.5
- 2016: 2.9
- 2021: 2.7
Average number of people usually resident per household.
Waterview Heights · Urban Centre
Family & Households in Waterview Heights
How families and households are made up across the area.
Only 13.6% of people live alone in Waterview Heights, which is far below the national figure of 25.6%. This makes it a place where very few people live by themselves and households are generally larger than in most areas. The typical home now holds 2.7 people, an increase from 2.5 in 2011.
2.7
▲ +8.0%
- 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 Waterview Heights — higher than 76% of areas.
| Waterview Heights | 2.7 |
|---|---|
| 2460, NSW | 2.4 |
| New South Wales | 2.6 |
| Australia | 2.5 |
Households
Average household size.
About 47.7% of homes are shared by two people. The number of people living alone has fallen sharply since 2011, dropping by 9.6 percentage points.
13.6% ▼ -41.4%
Lower than 91% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 23.3%
- 2016: 14.7%
- 2021: 13.6%
Share of households that are a single person living alone.
Household size
View on map →In Waterview Heights, the largest group is 2 people at 47%, followed by 3 people (16%) and 1 person (13%).
Families
Family types and one-parent families.
Couples with children make up 52.6% of families here. One-parent families account for 10.7%, a figure that is well below the New South Wales average and has fallen since 2011.
10.7% ▼ -32.1%
Lower than 76% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 15.8%
- 2016: 15.6%
- 2021: 10.7%
Share of people who live in one-parent families.
Family composition
View on map →In Waterview Heights, Couples with children is the majority at 53%; Couples without children is next at 37%.
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 Waterview Heights [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL121119/waterview-heights/topic/family-households