There were 1,050 families in Sheffield: 44.3% were couple families with children, 43.6% were couple families without children, 11.3% were one parent families and 0.8% were other families.

92.0% of persons usually resident in Sheffield were Australian citizens, 10.5% were born overseas and 0.1% were overseas visitors.

58.3% of persons aged 15 years and over usually resident in Sheffield were married, 25.4% never married, 10.9% separated or divorced and 5.3% widowed.

* statistcs taken from the 2006 Census for postal area 7306 conducted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics