51.4% of persons aged 15 years and over usually resident in Maitland were married, 30.7% never married, 11.5% separated or divorced and 6.4% widowed.

There were 6,375 families in Maitland: 45.5% were couple families with children, 35.1% were couple families without children, 18.1% were one parent families and 1.3% were other families.

English was stated as the only language spoken at home by 94.1% of persons usually resident in Maitland. The most common languages other than English spoken at home were: Polish 0.2%, German 0.2%, Italian 0.2%, Cantonese 0.2% and Tagalog 0.1%.

* statistcs taken from the 2006 Census for postal area 2320 conducted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics