78.6% of persons usually resident in Waterford were Australian citizens, 33.0% were born overseas and 1.9% were overseas visitors.

39.2% of persons aged 15 years and over usually resident in Waterford were married, 42.0% never married, 11.4% separated or divorced and 7.4% widowed.

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.

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