Three bedrooms, and a larger share of flats than the state
In Jamisontown, 42% of homes have three bedrooms, above the 35% across NSW, and 32% have two bedrooms or fewer, above the state's 30%. Set beside the 24% with four or more bedrooms, below NSW, the figures point to a suburb whose homes lean toward the middle and smaller sizes rather than the largest.
Flats and apartments make up 26% of occupied homes, above the 22% across NSW. Separate houses account for 64% (66% across NSW) and townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses for 10% (12% across NSW), both below the state. At the 2021 Census, 8% of private dwellings in Jamisontown were unoccupied on Census night, below the 9% across NSW.
Renting through agents, and repayments below NSW
Of Jamisontown's renting households, 80% rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, above the 69% across NSW. Renting itself is above the state too: 37% of households rent, against 33% across NSW. Median rent is $370 a week, below the $420 across NSW, and median household income is $1,538 a week, below the state's $1,829.
Worked out on this page from those two medians, the median weekly rent equals 24% of the median weekly income of all Jamisontown households, above the 23% across NSW; it is not what any renter pays. The median mortgage repayment is $1,950 a month, below the $2,167 across NSW. 32% of households are paying off a mortgage (33% across NSW) and 29% own their home outright (32% across NSW), both below the state.
Smaller households in Jamisontown
An average household in Jamisontown holds 2.3 people, below the 2.6 across NSW, which suggests fewer people sharing each home than across the state. 5,321 people lived in the suburb of Jamisontown at the 2021 Census, and their median age is 38 years, below the NSW median of 39, so the middle of the age range sits younger here than the state's.
57% of people aged five and over in Jamisontown lived at the same address five years earlier, above the 54% across NSW. The figure answers one 2021 question about where each person lived in 2016, and it suggests a larger share of people aged five and over here at the same address in 2021 as in 2016 than across the state.