Four bedrooms or more as the ordinary Austral home
In Austral, 69% of homes have four or more bedrooms, compared with 34% across New South Wales. At the other end of the count, 6% have two bedrooms or fewer, against 30% for the state, and 23% have three bedrooms, below the state's 35%.
Separate houses make up 88% of occupied homes in Austral, above the 66% across the state. Flats and apartments account for 2%, against 22% across New South Wales, and townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses for 6%, against 12%. These figures suggest that living in an apartment building is uncommon here. On Census night, 7% of private dwellings in Austral were unoccupied, below the state's 9%.
Mortgages, rent and income in Austral
Paying off a mortgage is the position of 51% of households in Austral, compared with 33% across New South Wales. The median mortgage repayment is $2,535 a month, above the state's $2,167. Another 17% of households own their home outright, below the 32% across the state, and 27% rent, below the state's 33%.
The median rent in Austral is $520 a week, against $420 across New South Wales, and the median household income is $2,168 a week, above the state's $1,829. Setting the rent median against the income median on this page gives 24% for Austral, above 23% for the state. It compares two medians across all households and is not a measure of what any renter pays.
Among renting households in Austral, 81% rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, compared with 69% across New South Wales. The others rent from state housing, community housing, a private person or another landlord. At the 2021 Census, then, a renting household in Austral was more likely than the state's renting households as a whole to have an agent as its landlord.
Median age 31
The suburb of Austral had 6,847 people at the 2021 Census, with a median age of 31 years, below the state's 39. An average household holds 3.1 people, against 2.6 across New South Wales. One 2021 question asked people aged five and over where they lived in 2016. In Austral, 21% were at the same address, compared with 54% across New South Wales.