Flats, terraces and smaller bedroom counts
Flats or apartments account for 55% of occupied homes in Waverley, above the 22% across NSW. Townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses are a further 26%, above the 12% across NSW. Separate houses make up 17% of occupied homes in Waverley, below the 66% of occupied homes that are separate houses across NSW.
In Waverley, 56% of homes have two bedrooms or fewer, above the 30% across NSW. Homes with three bedrooms are 22%, below the 35% across NSW, and homes with four or more bedrooms are 18%, below the 34% across NSW. On Census night, 10% of private dwellings in Waverley were unoccupied, above the 9% across NSW.
Mortgages, rent and who rents in Waverley
The median mortgage repayment in Waverley is $3,731 a month, above the $2,167 across NSW. The median household income is $2,873 a week, above the $1,829 across NSW, and median rent is $630 a week, above the $420 across NSW. Worked out on this page from the two medians, the median weekly rent equals 22% of the median weekly income of all Waverley households, renters or not, below the 23% across NSW.
Renting households are 43% of households in Waverley, above the 33% across NSW, and 77% of them rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, above the 69% across NSW. Of all Waverley households, 23% own their home outright, below the 32% across NSW, and 29% are paying off a mortgage, below the 33% across NSW.
Waverley's 4,216 people, and where they lived in 2016
One 2021 Census question asked each person aged five and over where they lived in 2016. In Waverley, 45% of people aged five and over gave the same address five years earlier, below the 54% of people aged five and over across NSW.
The suburb of Waverley had 4,216 people at the 2021 Census. Households there held 2.3 people on average, below the average of 2.6 people across NSW, and the median age was 38 years, below the median of 39 years across NSW.