Where Blacktown sits between the house and the flat
Attached homes stand out here. At 19% of occupied homes, townhouses, terraces and semi-detached houses are above the NSW figure of 12%. Flats and apartments come in below the state, at 16% against 22%, and separate houses account for 65% of occupied homes, below the 66% across NSW. The attached-home figure suggests that a larger share of Blacktown's households live in homes that share a wall than across the state.
Three-bedroom homes stand out. 43% of homes in Blacktown have three bedrooms, above the 35% across NSW, while 27% have four or more bedrooms, below the state's 34%. Homes with two bedrooms or fewer make up 28%, below 30% across NSW. On Census night, 7% of private dwellings were unoccupied, below the NSW figure of 9%.
Renting, owning and the weekly budget in Blacktown
Renting is more common in Blacktown than across the state: 43% of households rent, against 33% across NSW. Of those renting households, 74% rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, above the 69% across NSW. Outright ownership is below the state, with 22% of households owning their home outright compared with 32% across NSW, and 32% are paying off a mortgage, below 33% across NSW.
Rent, repayments and income all come in below the state at the median. The median rent was $400 a week in Blacktown, below $420 across NSW. The median mortgage repayment was $2,094 a month, below the state's $2,167, and the median household income was $1,774 a week, below $1,829 across NSW.
Setting the median weekly rent against the median weekly income of all Blacktown households, renters or not, gives 23%. This share is worked out on this page from those two medians, and it is the same as the 23% across NSW. It describes the suburb's medians side by side rather than the budget of any one household.
A younger suburb with fuller households
The suburb of Blacktown was home to 50,961 people at the 2021 Census. Its median age of 34 years is below the 39 across NSW, which suggests a younger population than the state as a whole. Households are larger too, at 2.9 people in an average household against 2.6 across NSW, which suggests more people sharing each home.
Of people aged five and over in Blacktown, 50% lived at the same address five years earlier, according to one 2021 question about where they lived in 2016. That share is below the 54% across NSW. It suggests that, compared with the state, a smaller share of people in Blacktown were living at the address they had five years before.