Rydalmere real estate

At 33% of occupied homes, townhouses, terraces and semi-detached houses are more common in Rydalmere than across NSW, where they are 12%. Flats or apartments, at 14%, are below the 22% across NSW, and separate houses, at 53%, are below the 66% across NSW. On Census night, 7% of private dwellings were unoccupied, below the 9% across NSW.

Three bedrooms is the size more common here than across the state: 44% of homes, against 35% across NSW. Four or more bedrooms, at 26%, is below the 34% across NSW, and two bedrooms or fewer, at 28%, is below the 30% across NSW. The figures suggest homes in the middle of the bedroom range are more common here than across NSW.

Renting accounts for 42% of households in Rydalmere, above the 33% across NSW, while owning outright, at 22%, is below the 32% across NSW. Paying off a mortgage, at 34%, is above the 33% across NSW. Of renting households, 56% rented from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, below the 69% across NSW.

The median mortgage repayment was $2,500 a month, above the $2,167 across NSW. The median rent was $430 a week, above the $420 across NSW, and the median household income $1,871 a week, above the $1,829 across NSW. Worked out on this page from the two medians, the rent equals 23% of the median weekly income of all households, renters or not, the same as across NSW.

Households in Rydalmere hold 2.8 people on average, above the 2.6 across NSW. The median age of 37 years is below the 39 across NSW, which suggests younger residents than the state as a whole. At the 2021 Census, 7,274 people lived in the suburb of Rydalmere.

Of people aged five and over in Rydalmere, 56% lived at the same address five years earlier, above the 54% across NSW. The figure comes from one 2021 question about where each person lived in 2016.