Drysdale real estate

Apartments are a small part of Drysdale's homes. At the 2021 Census, flats or apartments were 2% of occupied homes, below 12% across VIC, and townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses were 10%, below 14%. Separate houses came to 89%, above 73% for the state. The figures suggest a larger share of homes that are detached houses here than across Victoria.

Homes with three bedrooms were 43%, above 42% across VIC, and homes with four or more were 36%, above 33%. Homes with two bedrooms or fewer were 20%, below 25% statewide. Of private dwellings in Drysdale, 7% were unoccupied on Census night, below the VIC figure of 11%.

Outright ownership is above the state in Drysdale. At the 2021 Census, 47% of households owned their home outright, above 32% across VIC. Renting households were 16%, below 29%, and households paying off a mortgage were 30%, below 36% statewide. The median mortgage repayment was $1,733 a month, below $1,859 across the state.

Median household income in Drysdale was $1,273 a week, below $1,759 across VIC, and median rent was $340 a week, below $370. Worked out on this page from those two medians, rent equals 27% of the median weekly income of all households, above the 21% for VIC. Of renting households, 69% rented from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, below 73% across the state.

Drysdale's median age sits above Victoria's. The median age was 52 years at the 2021 Census, above 38 across VIC, which suggests an older population than Victoria as a whole. Households were smaller, at 2.3 people in an average household against 2.5 for the state, suggesting fewer people sharing each home.

In the suburb of Drysdale, 4,976 people were counted at the 2021 Census. One 2021 question asked people aged five and over where they lived in 2016, and 56% gave the same address, above 54% across VIC. That suggests a larger share of people aged five and over here at the same address in 2021 as in 2016 than across the state.