Apartments and smaller homes
With 67% of occupied homes being flats or apartments, separate houses come to 19% in Sutherland, below 66% across NSW. Townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses account for 14%, above 12% statewide. A high share of flats suggests a larger share of homes in apartment buildings here than across the state, and a smaller share of separate houses than across NSW.
Bedroom counts run small. 68% of homes in Sutherland have two bedrooms or fewer, above 30% across NSW. Three-bedroom homes make up 21%, below the state's 35%, and homes with four or more bedrooms come to 10%, below 34% across NSW. On Census night, 8% of private dwellings in Sutherland were unoccupied, below 9% across NSW.
A suburb where renting runs above the state
42% of households in Sutherland rent, above 33% across NSW. Among those renting households, 79% rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, above 69% statewide; the others rent from state housing, community housing, a private person or another landlord, or did not say whom. Outright ownership sits at 22%, below 32% across NSW.
Median rent is $450 a week, above $420 across NSW, and median household income is $1,949 a week, above $1,829 across NSW. From these two medians, worked out on this page, the rent equals 23% of the median weekly income of all households in Sutherland, renters or not, the same as 23% across NSW. It is not a Census figure, and not what renters themselves pay.
Mortgages in Sutherland match the state on both counts. 33% of households are paying off a mortgage, the same as 33% across NSW, and the median repayment is $2,167 a month, the same as $2,167 statewide. On these two figures, Sutherland and NSW cannot be told apart. That repayment is the midpoint for households with a mortgage, not an average across every household.
Smaller households, and fewer at the same address
An average household in Sutherland holds 2.1 people, below 2.6 across NSW, which suggests fewer people sharing each home than across the state. The suburb of Sutherland had 11,570 people at the 2021 Census, and its median age is 37 years, below 39 across NSW, pointing to a younger population than the state's.
When the 2021 Census asked where people lived in 2016, 45% of people aged five and over in Sutherland gave the same address as five years earlier. That falls below 54% across NSW, and suggests a smaller share of people aged five and over in Sutherland at the same address in 2021 as in 2016 than across the state.