Eastlakes real estate

Separate houses make up 28% of occupied homes in Eastlakes, below the 66% seen across NSW, while townhouses, terraces and semi-detached houses come to 2%, below the state's 12%. Set beside the 69% share of flats and apartments, these figures suggest that apartment buildings house a larger share of Eastlakes homes than they do across NSW.

Homes here are compact by bedroom count. Some 62% have two bedrooms or fewer, above the NSW figure of 30%. Three-bedroom homes are 24%, below 35% for the state, and those with four or more bedrooms are 12%, below 34%. On Census night, 10% of private dwellings in Eastlakes were unoccupied, above the 9% across NSW.

Renting households account for 50% of all households in Eastlakes, above the 33% across NSW. Of those renting households, 57% rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, below the state's 69%. Ownership runs the other way: 25% of households own outright, below 32% for NSW, and 21% are paying off a mortgage, below 33%.

Median rent was $380 a week at the 2021 Census, below the $420 across NSW, and median household income was $1,300 a week, below the state's $1,829. Worked out on this page from those two medians, the rent equals 29% of the median weekly income of all Eastlakes households, renters or not, above 23% for NSW. The median mortgage repayment, $2,167 a month, matched the state figure.

The suburb of Eastlakes had 6,347 people at the 2021 Census. Households are smaller than the state average, at 2.4 people against 2.6 across NSW, which suggests fewer people sharing each home than across the state. The median age of 40 years is above the NSW median of 39.

Of people aged five and over in Eastlakes, 60% lived at the same address five years earlier, going by one 2021 question about where each person lived in 2016. That share is above the 54% for NSW. It suggests a larger share of people aged five and over there at the same address in 2021 as in 2016 than across NSW.