Attached homes, with four or more bedrooms common
In Rouse Hill, 54% of occupied homes are separate houses, below 66% across New South Wales, while flats or apartments make up 25%, above the state's 22%. Yet the homes are not small by bedroom count. 55% have four or more bedrooms, above 34% across the state, while 20% have three, below 35%, and 25% have two bedrooms or fewer, below the state's 30%. On Census night, 8% of private dwellings were unoccupied, below the 9% across New South Wales.
Less outright ownership, more loans and rentals
16% of households in Rouse Hill own their home outright, below 32% across New South Wales. At the same count, 43% of households were paying off a mortgage, against 33% statewide, with a median repayment of $2,730 a month, above the state's $2,167. Median household income is $2,643 a week, above $1,829 across the state.
Renting is more common here too: 40% of households rent, above the state's 33%. Of those renting households, 90% rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, above 69% across New South Wales, which suggests a larger share of the suburb's renting households deal with an agent than across the state. The median rent is $500 a week, above $420 statewide.
Worked out on this page, that median rent equals 19% of the median weekly income of all households in Rouse Hill, renters or not. The same two medians give 23% across New South Wales, so Rouse Hill sits below the state on this measure. Both medians behind it, the rent and the income, sit above the state's own.
Younger people, and fewer at the same address
The suburb of Rouse Hill was home to 11,349 people at the 2021 Census. The median age was 34 years, below 39 across New South Wales, which suggests a younger population. An average household holds 3 people, above the state's 2.6, which suggests more people sharing each home than across New South Wales. Among people aged five and over in Rouse Hill, 46% lived at the same address five years earlier, below 54% across the state.