Apartments first in Naremburn
In Naremburn, flats or apartments accounted for 43% of occupied homes, above the 22% across NSW. Townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses added 20%, above 12% statewide, while separate houses stood at 38%, below the NSW share of 66%. Read together, these figures suggest that, compared with NSW, a larger share of people in Naremburn live in apartment buildings or in homes that are attached to their neighbours.
Homes with two bedrooms or fewer came to 48%, above 30% across NSW. Four or more bedrooms covered 18%, below 34%, and three bedrooms 35%, the same as the state. At the 2021 Census, 8% of private dwellings in Naremburn were unoccupied on Census night, below the 9% for NSW, so a lower share stood empty than across the state.
High incomes beside high rents and repayments
Median household income in Naremburn was $3,272 a week, above $1,829 across NSW. Median rent was $602 a week, above the state's $420, and the median mortgage repayment was $3,500 a month, above $2,167. Worked out on this page from the two weekly medians, rent equals 18% of the median income of all households in Naremburn, renters or not, below the 23% for NSW.
Renters made up 36% of households, above 33% across NSW, and 79% of renting households rented from a landlord recorded as a real estate agent, above 69% statewide. Paying off a mortgage matched the state, at 33% of households. Outright owners were 30% of households, below the NSW share of 32%.
Matching the state in age, smaller at home
The suburb of Naremburn had 5,924 people at the 2021 Census. The median age there was 39 years, the same as the NSW median, so on age the suburb sits level with the state. Households were smaller: an average household held 2.4 people, below 2.6 across NSW, suggesting fewer people under each roof than across the state.
Of people aged five and over in Naremburn, 52% lived at the same address five years earlier, below 54% across NSW. This share comes from a single 2021 question on where each person lived in 2016. Being below the state's figure, it suggests a smaller proportion of people in Naremburn were living at the same address as five years earlier.