Sylvania real estate

Sylvania's mix of homes tilts towards the attached house. Townhouses, terraces and semi-detached houses make up 27% of occupied homes, above 12% across New South Wales, while flats and apartments are 12%, below the state's 22%. Separate houses are 60%, below 66% statewide. On these figures, medium-density homes in Sylvania tend to take the form of attached houses rather than apartment buildings.

Smaller homes are less common. Homes with two bedrooms or fewer are 20%, below 30% across the state. Three-bedroom homes are 40%, above the state's 35%, and homes with four or more bedrooms are 38%, above 34% across New South Wales, so the bedroom figures lean towards the middle and upper sizes.

At the 2021 Census, 8% of private dwellings in Sylvania were unoccupied on Census night, below the 9% across New South Wales. The figure counts dwellings that nobody was living in on that one night in 2021. Set beside the state, a smaller share of Sylvania's dwellings stood empty, and a larger share were occupied on Census night.

Owning outright stands out in Sylvania: 41% of households own their home outright, above 32% across New South Wales. Paying off a mortgage accounts for 34%, above the state's 33%, and 21% of households rent, below 33% statewide. On these figures, renting plays a smaller part in Sylvania than across the state, and owning outright a larger one.

Housing costs sit above the state. Median rent is $530 a week, above $420 across New South Wales, and the median mortgage repayment is $2,730 a month, above the state's $2,167. Median household income is $1,961 a week, above $1,829 statewide. Worked out on this page, the median weekly rent equals 27% of the median weekly income of all households, renters or not, above 23% across the state.

Among renting households, 69% rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, the same as across New South Wales. The others rent from state or community housing, a private person or another landlord, or did not say whom. On this figure, renting through an agent is as common in Sylvania as across the state, among the 21% of households that rent.

The median age in Sylvania is 46 years, above 39 across New South Wales, which suggests an older population at the median than the state's. Of people aged five and over, 65% lived at the same address five years earlier, above 54% across the state.

The suburb of Sylvania had 10,749 people at the 2021 Census. An average household has 2.6 people, the same as across New South Wales, so on household size alone Sylvania matches the state, even where its homes and ages differ. Larger or smaller households, on this figure, are no more a feature of Sylvania than of the state as a whole.