Homes of four or more bedrooms, and few standing empty
56% of homes in Pemulwuy have four or more bedrooms, above the 34% across NSW. Three-bedroom homes come to 24% (35% across NSW) and homes with two bedrooms or fewer to 18% (30% across NSW), both below the state. The figures suggest a suburb weighted toward larger homes, with smaller ones less common than across NSW.
On Census night, 5% of private dwellings in Pemulwuy were unoccupied, below the 9% across NSW. Separate houses make up 74% of occupied homes, above the state's 66%, while flats or apartments make up 19% (22% across NSW) and townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses 6% (12% across NSW). Both of those attached kinds of home sit below the state figure here.
Repayments, incomes and rent in Pemulwuy
Outright ownership is less common in Pemulwuy than across the state: 18% of households own their home outright, below the 32% across NSW. The median mortgage repayment is $2,511 a month, above the $2,167 across NSW, and median household income is $2,758 a week, above the NSW figure of $1,829. Both the repayment and the income sit above the state's middle figures.
21% of households in Pemulwuy rent, below the 33% across NSW, and 88% of renting households rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, above the state's 69%. Median rent is $570 a week, above the $420 across NSW. Worked out on this page from the two medians, the median weekly rent equals 21% of the median weekly income of all households here, below the 23% across NSW. It is not what any renter pays.
Younger at the middle, more to a household
Pemulwuy's median age is 37 years, below the 39 across NSW, which suggests a younger population than the state's. 5,532 people lived in the suburb of Pemulwuy at the 2021 Census, and an average household here holds 3.2 people, above the 2.6 across NSW, so more people share each home than across the state.
When asked in 2021 where they lived in 2016, 61% of people aged five and over in Pemulwuy gave the same address, above the 54% across NSW. The figure suggests a larger share of people aged five and over in Pemulwuy at the same address in 2021 as in 2016 than across the state as a whole.