Separate houses at 24%, two bedrooms or fewer at 63%
In Liverpool, separate houses made up 24% of occupied homes, below 66% across NSW. Townhouses, terraces and semi-detached houses accounted for 10%, below the state's 12%, and flats and apartments for 65%, against 22% for NSW.
Homes with two bedrooms or fewer are 63% of the total in Liverpool, above 30% across the state, while three bedrooms account for 24%, below 35%, and four or more for 11%, below 34%. On Census night, 12% of private dwellings were unoccupied, above 9% across NSW.
Rent, income and repayments in Liverpool
In Liverpool, 61% of households rent, above 33% across NSW. Of those renting households, 80% rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, above 69% for the state. The median rent is $370 a week, below $420 across NSW. Median household income is $1,303 a week, below $1,829 for the state. Worked out on this page from those two medians, the rent equals 28% of the median income of all Liverpool households, renters or not, above 23% across NSW.
In Liverpool, 15% of households own their home outright, against 32% across NSW, and 20% are paying off a mortgage, against 33% for the state. The median mortgage repayment is $1,733 a month, below $2,167 across NSW.
A younger population, and 42% at one address
The suburb of Liverpool had 31,078 people at the 2021 Census. Its median age was 34 years, below 39 across NSW, and a median age under the state's suggests younger residents. An average household in Liverpool holds 2.6 people, the same as 2.6 across NSW.
Among people aged five and over, 42% lived at the same address five years earlier, below 54% across the state. The answer comes from one 2021 question about where each person lived in 2016, and a share under the state's suggests a smaller share of people aged five and over lived at the same address five years earlier than across NSW.