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Balgowlah Real Estate

Balgowlah real estate

In Balgowlah, 23% of occupied homes are townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses, against 12% across New South Wales. Alongside them, 40% are flats or apartments and 35% are separate houses, at the 2021 Census.

  • House 35
  • Townhouse or terrace 23
  • Flat or apartment 40
  • Other or not stated 2
  • Owned outright 34
  • Mortgaged 33
  • Rented 31
  • Other or not stated 2
Homes in Balgowlah as a street of 100, from the census count of households by kind of home and tenure. Other or not stated also takes up the rounding.
Median rent$640 a weekNSW $420
Median mortgage repayment$3,250 a monthNSW $2,167
Median household income$2,681 a weekNSW $1,829

Attached homes and apartments beside the houses

Separate houses were 35% of occupied homes in Balgowlah at the 2021 Census, below the 66% across New South Wales. Flats and apartments were 40% of occupied homes, above the state's 22%, and townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses were 23%, above 12% across the state.

By bedroom count, 42% of homes in Balgowlah have two bedrooms or fewer, against 30% across New South Wales. Homes with three bedrooms are 36%, above the state's 35%, and 21% have four or more bedrooms, below 34% across the state. Of all private dwellings in the suburb, 6% were unoccupied on Census night, below the state's 9%.

New South Wales, the same way: 66 houses, 22 flats, 33 rented. Other or not stated also takes up the rounding.

Rent, repayments and income in Balgowlah

Median rent in Balgowlah was $640 a week at the 2021 Census, above the $420 across New South Wales. The median mortgage repayment was $3,250 a month, against $2,167 across the state, and median household income was $2,681 a week, above the state's $1,829. Worked out here from those two weekly medians, rent equals 24% of the median income of all households in the suburb, renters or not, against 23% across the state. It is a ratio of two medians, not what renters pay.

Of Balgowlah's households, 34% own their home outright, above 32% across New South Wales, and 33% are paying off a mortgage, the same as the state. Another 31% rent, below the state's 33%. Among renting households, 81% rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, against 69% across the state; the rest rent from state or community housing, a private person or another landlord.

Residents and households

At the 2021 Census, 8,068 people lived in the suburb of Balgowlah. Their median age was 41 years, above 39 across New South Wales, which suggests a population older at the median than the state's. An average household in Balgowlah held 2.5 people, below 2.6 across the state. On these two figures, Balgowlah's residents are older at the median, and its households smaller on average, than the state's.

One 2021 question asked everyone aged five and over where they had lived in 2016. In Balgowlah, 54% gave the same address as in 2021, the same share as across New South Wales. On that measure the suburb sits level with the state.