The most common industries of employment for persons aged 15 years and over usually resident in Waterford were School Education 5.1%, Cafes, Restaurants and Takeaway Food Services 4.9%, Hospitals 3.6%, Architectural, Engineering and Technical Services 3.5% and Tertiary Education 3.3%.

There were 5,457 families in Waterford: 36.8% were couple families with children, 42.4% were couple families without children, 15.9% were one parent families and 4.9% were other families.

60.2% of persons usually resident in Waterford stated they were born in Australia. Other common responses within Waterford were: England 6.5%, Malaysia 3.3%, Indonesia 2.0%, Singapore 1.7% and New Zealand 1.6%.

* statistcs taken from the 2006 Census for postal area 6152 conducted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics