Separate houses with three bedrooms
Flats are close to absent from Airds: 1% of occupied homes are flats or apartments, below the 22% across NSW. Separate houses make up 82% of occupied homes, above the NSW figure of 66%, and townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses account for 17%, above 12% statewide. Together these suggest a smaller share of homes in Airds in apartment buildings than across NSW.
57% of homes in Airds have three bedrooms, above the 35% across NSW, while 11% have two bedrooms or fewer, below the state's 30%. Homes with four or more bedrooms come to 30%, below 34% across NSW. On Census night, 10% of private dwellings in Airds were unoccupied, above the NSW figure of 9%.
Rent, landlords and mortgages in Airds
Of the renting households in Airds, 17% rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, below the 69% across NSW. The rest rent from state housing, community housing, a private person or another landlord, or did not say whom. The median rent is $220 a week, below $420 across NSW, and the median household income is $944 a week, below $1,829 statewide.
Set against each other, the median weekly rent equals 23% of the median weekly income of all households in Airds, renters or not, the same as the 23% across NSW. That share is worked out on this page from the two medians; it is not a Census figure and not what renters themselves pay.
Ownership is less common here. 3% of households own their home outright, below 32% across NSW, and 17% are paying off a mortgage, below the state's 33%. Among those with a mortgage, the median repayment is $2,210 a month, above the NSW figure of $2,167. Both shares sit below the state, which suggests a smaller share of households in Airds owning their home, whether outright or with a loan, than across NSW.
A younger suburb with fuller households
The median age in Airds is 29 years, below 39 across NSW, which suggests a younger population than the state as a whole. The suburb of Airds had 3,265 people at the 2021 Census. An average household holds 2.9 people, above 2.6 across NSW, which suggests homes here are shared by more people than across the state.
Asked where they lived in 2016, 46% of people aged five and over in Airds said they were at the same address five years earlier. That sits below the 54% across NSW, and suggests a smaller share of people aged five and over in Airds at the same address in 2021 as in 2016 than across the state.