Hawkesbury real estate

Separate houses account for 87% of occupied homes in the Hawkesbury council area, above 66% across NSW. Townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses come to 10%, below the state's 12%. With flats or apartments at 3%, the figures suggest a larger share of homes here are separate houses than across NSW.

Homes here tend towards more bedrooms. 46% have four or more bedrooms, above 34% across NSW, and 39% have three, above 35% statewide. Homes with two bedrooms or fewer make up 14%, below the NSW figure of 30%. On Census night, 6% of private dwellings in the Hawkesbury council area were unoccupied, below 9% across NSW.

41% of households in the Hawkesbury council area are paying off a mortgage, above 33% across NSW, and the median repayment is $2,200 a month, above $2,167 statewide. Outright ownership sits at 32%, the same as the 32% across NSW. Renting accounts for 24% of households, below the state's 33%.

The median rent is $400 a week, below $420 across NSW, while the median household income is $1,980 a week, above $1,829 across NSW. Worked out on this page from those two medians, the rent equals 20% of the median weekly income of all households in the council area, renters or not, below 23% across NSW. It is not a Census figure, and not what renters themselves pay.

Among renting households, 66% rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, below 69% across NSW. The others rent from state housing, community housing, a private person or another landlord, or did not say whom. Set below the NSW figure, it suggests a smaller share of renters in the council area deal with an agent than across the state.

At the 2021 Census, 60% of people aged five and over in the Hawkesbury council area lived at the same address five years earlier, the answer to one question about where they lived in 2016. That is above 54% across NSW, and suggests a larger share of people aged five and over here at the same address in 2021 as in 2016 than across NSW.

67,207 people lived in the Hawkesbury council area at the 2021 Census. An average household holds 2.8 people, above 2.6 across NSW. The median age is 39 years, the same as the 39 across NSW, so on age the council area matches the state. The household figure suggests homes here are shared by more people than across NSW, while the median age gives no sign of a younger or older population.