Terraces and flats in place of the separate house
Erskineville's mix of homes runs against the state's. Separate houses account for 3% of occupied homes here, below the 66% across New South Wales. Townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses make up 34%, above the state's 12%, and flats or apartments 62%, above the 22% across NSW. The figures suggest attached homes and apartment buildings, rather than the separate house, shape how people in Erskineville live.
Bedrooms follow suit. Some 78% of homes have two bedrooms or fewer, above the 30% across New South Wales. Three-bedroom homes are 17%, below the state's 35%, and homes with four or more bedrooms are 5%, below the 34% across NSW. The figures suggest smaller homes are more common here than across the state. On Census night, 10% of private dwellings in Erskineville were unoccupied, above the 9% across New South Wales, so the share standing empty that night sat above the state's.
High incomes, high rents, renting above the state
Median household income in Erskineville is $3,020 a week, above the $1,829 across New South Wales. Median rent is $620 a week, above the state's $420. Set against each other on this page, the median weekly rent equals 21% of the median weekly income of all households here, renters or not, below the 23% across NSW.
Renting is more common: 53% of households rent, above the 33% across New South Wales, and 83% of renting households rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, above the state's 69%. The figures suggest that renting, and renting through an agent, was a larger part of how households here lived at the 2021 Census than across the state.
Outright ownership is less common, at 13% of households against 32% across the state. The share paying off a mortgage, 33%, is the same as the 33% across NSW, while the median mortgage repayment is $2,800 a month, above the $2,167 across New South Wales. Owning without a loan, on these figures, was a smaller part of household life here than across the state.
Smaller households and fewer at the same address
Of people aged five and over in Erskineville, 32% lived at the same address five years earlier, according to one 2021 question about where they lived in 2016. Across New South Wales the share was 54%, so Erskineville sits below the state.
An average household in Erskineville holds 2 people, below the 2.6 across New South Wales, and the median age is 34 years, below the state's 39, which suggests younger residents than across the state. The household figure suggests homes shared by fewer people than the state's average. At the 2021 Census, 9,657 people lived in the suburb of Erskineville.