Flats and homes of two bedrooms or fewer in Ashfield
Flats or apartments made up 70% of occupied homes in Ashfield, above the 22% across New South Wales. Separate houses made up 22%, below the state's 66%, and townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses 7%, below the NSW figure of 12%. Two bedrooms or fewer describes 67% of homes in Ashfield, above the state's 30%. Three-bedroom homes came to 20%, below the 35% across NSW, and homes with four or more bedrooms to 11%, below the state's 34%. On Census night 11% of private dwellings in the suburb were unoccupied, above the 9% across New South Wales.
Renting, repayments and income in Ashfield
In Ashfield, 51% of households rented at the 2021 Census, above the 33% across New South Wales, and 82% of those renting households rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, above the state's 69%. The median rent was $440 a week, above the NSW median of $420.
Households paying off a mortgage came to 23%, below the state's 33%, and outright owners to 22%, below the 32% across NSW. The median mortgage repayment was $2,210 a month, above the state median of $2,167.
Ashfield's median household income was $1,888 a week, above the NSW figure of $1,829. Worked out on this page from the two medians, the median rent equals 23% of the median income of all households in Ashfield, renters or not, the same as the 23% across New South Wales.
Who lives in Ashfield, and where they lived in 2016
Among people aged five and over in Ashfield, 44% lived at the same address five years earlier, below the 54% across New South Wales. The suburb of Ashfield was home to 23,012 people at the 2021 Census. Their median age was 36 years, below the NSW median of 39, and an average household held 2.3 people, below the state's 2.6.