Apartment buildings set the pattern in Allawah
Flats and apartments make up 78% of occupied homes in Allawah, above the 22% recorded across NSW. Separate houses account for 18% here, below 66% statewide, and townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses for 3%, below 12% across NSW. Taken together, these figures suggest a larger share of homes in apartment buildings, and a smaller share in separate houses, than across the state.
Bedroom counts follow the same line. In Allawah, 58% of homes have two bedrooms or fewer, above 30% across NSW, while 31% have three bedrooms (35% across NSW) and 10% have four or more (34% across NSW), both below the state. On Census night, 8% of private dwellings in Allawah were unoccupied, below the NSW figure of 9%.
Renting through agents, and what it costs in Allawah
Renting is common here: 46% of Allawah 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. That suggests rented homes in Allawah are more often let through agencies than across the state, rather than by private individuals or housing providers.
The median rent in Allawah is $428 a week, above $420 across NSW. Median household income sits at $1,774 a week, below the state median of $1,829. Set against each other, the median weekly rent equals 24% of the median weekly income of all Allawah households, a share worked out on this page from those two medians; across NSW the same share is 23%, so Allawah sits above.
Ownership runs below the state on both counts. In Allawah, 26% of households are paying off a mortgage, below 33% across NSW, and 26% own their home outright, below 32% across NSW. The median mortgage repayment is $2,167 a month, the same as the NSW figure.
A younger crowd in smaller households
The suburb of Allawah had 5,351 residents at the 2021 Census. Their median age is 36 years, below 39 across NSW, which suggests a younger population than the state as a whole. Households hold 2.5 people on average, below the NSW average of 2.6. On both measures, age and household size, Allawah sits below the state.
Asked where they lived in 2016, 50% of people aged five and over in Allawah gave the same address they had in 2021. Across NSW that figure is 54%, so Allawah sits below the state. The figure suggests a smaller share of people aged five and over here at the same address in 2021 as in 2016 than across NSW.