Redfern real estate

Separate houses account for 1% of occupied homes in Redfern, against 66% across NSW. Flats or apartments make up 68%, and townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses 29%, above the 12% across NSW.

Homes with two bedrooms or fewer reach 70%, above the 30% across NSW. Three bedrooms (21%, against 35%) and four or more (7%, against 34%) both sit below the state. On Census night, 13% of private dwellings in Redfern were unoccupied, above the 9% across NSW.

Renting stands out in Redfern, at 62% of households against 33% across NSW. Of renting households, 59% rented from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, below the 69% across NSW. Owning outright (15%, against 32%) and paying off a mortgage (20%, against 33%) are both less common than across the state.

The median rent was $500 a week, above the $420 across NSW, and median household income $2,145 a week, above the $1,829. Worked out on this page from those two medians, the rent equals 23% of the median weekly income of all households, renters or not, the same as across NSW. The median mortgage repayment was $2,811 a month, above the $2,167.

Of people aged five and over in Redfern, 37% lived at the same address five years earlier, below the 54% across NSW. An average household in Redfern held 1.9 people, below the 2.6 across NSW, so homes here held fewer people on average. The median age was 36 years, below the 39 across NSW, which suggests younger residents than across the state. At the 2021 Census, 13,072 people lived in the suburb of Redfern.