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Blakehurst Real Estate

Blakehurst real estate

Flats and apartments make up 7% of occupied homes in Blakehurst, below 22% across NSW. Separate houses, at 86%, sit above the state share of 66%.

  • House 86
  • Townhouse or terrace 7
  • Flat or apartment 7
  • Owned outright 44
  • Mortgaged 38
  • Rented 14
  • Other or not stated 4
Homes in Blakehurst 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$600 a weekNSW $420
Median mortgage repayment$3,208 a monthNSW $2,167
Median household income$2,474 a weekNSW $1,829

Separate houses, and plenty of bedrooms

Separate houses account for 86% of occupied homes in Blakehurst, above the NSW share of 66%. Flats and apartments sit at 7%, below 22% across the state, and townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses are also 7%, below the NSW figure of 12%. Taken together, these figures suggest a suburb where living in an apartment building is the exception rather than the pattern.

Bedroom counts lean large. At the 2021 Census, 56% of homes in Blakehurst had four or more bedrooms, above 34% across NSW, while 32% had three bedrooms, below the state's 35%. Homes with two bedrooms or fewer were 10%, below 30% for NSW. On Census night, 7% of private dwellings were unoccupied, below the NSW figure of 9%.

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

Owning outright, and what rent and repayments look like

In Blakehurst, 44% of households own their home outright, above 32% across NSW. Another 38% are paying off a mortgage, above the state's 33%, and 14% rent, below 33% for NSW. The median mortgage repayment is $3,208 a month, above $2,167 across the state, and the median household income is $2,474 a week, above the NSW median of $1,829.

Rent runs higher too: the median is $600 a week, above $420 across NSW. Worked out on this page from the two medians, that rent equals 24% of the median weekly income of all Blakehurst households, renters or not, above 23% for the state. Of the households that rent, 76% rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, above 69% across NSW.

Larger households, and more at their 2016 address

In all, 67% of people aged five and over in Blakehurst lived at the same address five years earlier, above 54% across NSW. That single 2021 question about where people lived in 2016 suggests a larger share of people aged five and over at the same address in 2021 as in 2016 than across NSW. The suburb of Blakehurst was home to 6,652 people at the 2021 Census.

Households here are larger than the state's: an average of 3.1 people, against 2.6 across NSW. The median age is 43 years, above 39 for the state, which suggests an older population than across the state. The larger average household suggests more people sharing each home than across NSW.