Asquith's mix of flats and houses
Flats or apartments are 48% of occupied homes in Asquith, against 22% across NSW, and separate houses are 42%, below the state's 66%. Townhouses, terraces and semi-detached houses make up 9%, below 12% statewide. These figures suggest apartment buildings are a familiar part of how people in Asquith live.
Homes with two bedrooms or fewer are 50% in Asquith, above 30% across NSW. Three-bedroom homes come to 27% (35% statewide), and homes with four or more bedrooms to 23% (34% statewide). On Census night, 7% of private dwellings in Asquith were unoccupied, below 9% across NSW.
More mortgages, fewer outright owners
Outright ownership is less common in Asquith than across NSW: 21% of households own their home outright, below 32% statewide. Paying off a mortgage, on the other hand, describes 42% of households, above 33% across NSW, and the median repayment is $2,400 a month, above the state's $2,167.
Renting households are 35%, above 33% across NSW, and 86% of them rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, above 69% statewide. The other renting households rent from state housing, community housing, a private person or another landlord, or did not say whom. The median rent is $490 a week, above $420 across the state.
Median household income in Asquith is $2,300 a week, above $1,829 across NSW. Set against each other on this page, those two medians put the median weekly rent at 21% of the median weekly income of all Asquith households, renters or not. The same sum for NSW comes to 23%, which places Asquith below the state on this measure.
A younger median age, and fewer at the same address
Of people aged five and over in Asquith, 39% lived at the same address five years earlier, below 54% across NSW. The figure comes from one 2021 question about where each person lived in 2016.
The suburb of Asquith had 6,160 people at the 2021 Census. Its median age was 36 years, below 39 across NSW, which suggests a younger population. The average household held 2.7 people, above the NSW average of 2.6, which suggests homes shared by more people than across the state.