Apartment buildings, and two bedrooms or fewer
Flats or apartments make up 92% of occupied homes in Homebush West, above the NSW share of 22%. Separate houses come to 5%, below 66% statewide, and townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses to 2%, below 12% across the state. The flat share suggests that a larger share of people here live in apartment buildings than across NSW.
In Homebush West, 73% of homes have two bedrooms or fewer, above 30% across NSW. Three-bedroom homes account for 20%, below 35% statewide, and homes with four or more bedrooms for 5%, below 34%. On Census night, 11% of private dwellings in Homebush West were unoccupied, above the NSW figure of 9%.
Renting through agents, at a rent above the state
In Homebush West, 61% of households rent, above 33% across NSW. Of those renting households, 85% rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, above 69% statewide. Outright owners are 9% of households, below 32% across NSW, and 27% are paying off a mortgage, below 33%.
The median rent in Homebush West is $431 a week, above $420 across NSW, and the median household income is $1,952 a week, above $1,829. Worked out on this page from those two medians, rent equals 22% of the median weekly income of all households, renters or not, below 23% statewide. The median mortgage repayment is $2,000 a month, below the NSW figure of $2,167.
A median age of 31, and a smaller share at the same address
At the 2021 Census, 30% of people aged five and over in Homebush West lived at the same address five years earlier, below 54% across NSW. That comes from one 2021 question about where each person lived in 2016, and it suggests a smaller share of people aged five and over lived at the same address five years earlier than across the state.
The median age is 31 years, below 39 across NSW, which points to a younger population than the state overall. The suburb of Homebush West was home to 9,108 people at the 2021 Census. An average household holds 2.6 people, the same as the NSW average.