Apartments, townhouses and fewer bedrooms
Flats and apartments make up 41% of occupied homes in Mortdale, above the 22% across NSW, and townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses 16%, above 12%. Separate houses come to 43%, below the 66% across NSW.
Bedroom counts sit lower too. Homes with two bedrooms or fewer reach 46%, above the 30% across NSW, while three bedrooms (28%, against 35%) and four or more (25%, against 34%) are both below the state. On Census night, 7% of private dwellings were unoccupied, below the 9% across NSW.
Rent level with NSW, renting through agents
The median rent in Mortdale was $420 a week, the same as across NSW. Renting is more common, at 37% of households against 33%, and 83% of those renting households rented from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, above the 69% across NSW. Median household income was $1,995 a week, above the $1,829.
Worked out on this page from the two medians, the rent equals 21% of the median weekly income of all households, renters or not, below the 23% across NSW. Owning outright (30%, against 32%) and paying off a mortgage (31%, against 33%) are both below the state. The median mortgage repayment was $2,286 a month, above the $2,167 across NSW.
Same address as in 2016
Of people aged five and over in Mortdale, 57% lived at the same address five years earlier, above the 54% across NSW. The figure comes from one 2021 question about where each person lived in 2016.
At the 2021 Census, 10,745 people lived in the suburb of Mortdale. An average household held 2.6 people, the same as across NSW. The median age was 38 years, below the 39 across NSW, which suggests residents younger than the state's, while household size matches the state exactly.