Haymarket real estate

Flats and apartments account for 99% of occupied homes in Haymarket, above the 22% across NSW, which suggests people here live in apartment buildings. Separate houses are fewer than 1% of occupied homes, against 66% across NSW, and townhouses, terraces and semi-detached houses are also fewer than 1%, against 12% across NSW.

Two bedrooms or fewer accounts for 86% of homes, above the 30% across NSW. Three bedrooms, at 10%, is below the 35% across NSW, and four or more, at 1%, is below the 34% across NSW. On Census night, 17% of private dwellings in Haymarket were unoccupied, above the 9% across NSW, a higher share standing empty that night than across the state.

Renting is more common in Haymarket than across NSW: 76% of households, against 33%. Owning outright, at 9%, is below the 32% across NSW, and paying off a mortgage, at 10%, is below the 33% across NSW. Of renting households, 84% rented from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, above the 69% across NSW.

The median rent was $650 a week, above the $420 across NSW, and the median household income $1,931 a week, above the $1,829 across NSW. Worked out on this page from the two medians, the rent equals 34% of the median weekly income of all households, renters or not, above the 23% across NSW. The median mortgage repayment was $2,600 a month, above the $2,167 across NSW.

Of people aged five and over in Haymarket, 18% lived at the same address five years earlier, below the 54% across NSW. That answer, to one 2021 question about where each person lived in 2016, is a lower share of people aged five and over at one address than across the state.

The median age was 30 years, below the 39 across NSW, which suggests younger residents than the state as a whole. An average household held 2.4 people, below the 2.6 across NSW, so households here tend to be smaller. At the 2021 Census, 8,305 people lived in the suburb of Haymarket.