Flats and apartments at 82%
In Eastgardens, flats or apartments accounted for 82% of occupied homes at the 2021 Census, above the 22% across New South Wales. Separate houses came to 15%, below the state's 66%, and townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses to 2%, below the 12% statewide.
Homes with two bedrooms or fewer made up 63%, above the state's 30%, while three-bedroom homes came to 27%, below the 35% across New South Wales, and homes with four or more bedrooms to 9%, below the 34% across the state. On Census night, 15% of private dwellings in Eastgardens were unoccupied, above the state figure of 9%.
Renting in Eastgardens, and what it costs
At the 2021 Census, 59% of Eastgardens households rented, above the 33% across New South Wales. Among those renting households, 81% rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, above the state's 69%. The median rent was $650 a week, above the New South Wales median of $420.
In Eastgardens, 24% of households are paying off a mortgage, below the 33% statewide, and 15% own their home outright, below the 32% statewide. For those with a loan, the median repayment was $2,760 a month, above the state median of $2,167. Median household income was $2,232 a week, above the $1,829 across New South Wales.
That median rent equals 29% of the median weekly income of all Eastgardens households, renters or not. The share is worked out on this page from the two medians, and across New South Wales the same working gives 23%, so Eastgardens sits above the state.
A median age of 31 years
Of people aged five and over in Eastgardens, 18% lived at the same address five years earlier, below the 54% across New South Wales. The figure comes from one 2021 question about where each person lived in 2016.
The median age in Eastgardens was 31 years, below the state median of 39. The suburb of Eastgardens was home to 4,086 people at the 2021 Census, and its households held 2.4 people on average, below the 2.6 across the state.