Detached houses with four or more bedrooms
Separate houses make up 94% of occupied homes in Australind, compared with 80% across Western Australia. Townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses account for 4%, against 13% across the state, and flats or apartments for 1%, against 6%. Taken together, these figures suggest that a detached house is the common form of home in Australind.
Bedroom counts sit on the higher side. In Australind, 67% of homes have four or more bedrooms, above the 45% across Western Australia. Three-bedroom homes are 28% of the total, against 37% across the state, and homes with two bedrooms or fewer are 5%, against 17%. On Census night, 8% of private dwellings in Australind were unoccupied, below the 11% across the state.
Mortgages, rent and the household budget
In Australind, 49% of households are paying off a mortgage, above the 40% across Western Australia. The median mortgage repayment is $1,712 a month, below the median of $1,842 across the state. Another 27% of households own their home outright, compared with 29% across the state, and 21% rent, compared with 27%. These shares suggest that repaying a home loan is a common household circumstance here.
The median rent in Australind is $350 a week, against $340 across Western Australia, and the median household income is $1,856 a week, against $1,815. Set side by side on this page, the median rent equals 19% of the median weekly income of all households, renters or not, the same as the 19% across the state. It compares two medians and is not a measure of what renters pay.
Among renting households in Australind, 58% rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, compared with 55% across Western Australia. The others rent from state housing, community housing, a private person or another landlord. Both of those shares count renting households only, not every household in the suburb.
A younger median age and households of 2.7
At the 2021 Census, 15,988 people lived in the suburb of Australind. Their median age is 36 years, below the median of 38 across Western Australia, which suggests a younger population than across the state as a whole. An average household in Australind holds 2.7 people, above the average of 2.5 across the state. One 2021 question asked people where they lived in 2016. In Australind, 56% of people aged five and over gave the same address, compared with 54% across Western Australia.