Townhouses, terraces and three-bedroom homes
Beside that 18% of townhouses, terraces and semi-detached houses, flats or apartments account for 15% of occupied homes in Port Macquarie, below 22% across NSW. Separate houses are 66%, the same as the state.
A three-bedroom home describes 41% of homes here, above the state's 35%. Four or more bedrooms come to 30%, below 34% across NSW, and two bedrooms or fewer to 28%, below the state's 30%. On Census night, 9% of private dwellings were unoccupied, the same as New South Wales.
Income, rent and owning outright in Port Macquarie
Port Macquarie's median household income is $1,282 a week, below $1,829 across NSW. Its median rent is $380 a week, below the state's $420. Worked out on this page from those two medians, the median rent equals 30% of the median income of all its households, renters or not, above 23% across the state.
Households that own their home outright come to 39%, above 32% across NSW. Those paying off a mortgage are 25%, below the state's 33%. The median mortgage repayment is $1,751 a month, below $2,167 statewide. Renting households are 31%, below 33% across New South Wales. Of them, 68% rent through a real estate agent, below the state's 69%.
A median age of 48 years in Port Macquarie
The median age in Port Macquarie is 48 years, above 39 across NSW, which suggests an older population than the state's. The suburb of Port Macquarie had 47,693 people at the 2021 Census.
An average household here holds 2.2 people, below 2.6 across the state. Of people aged five and over, 51% lived at the same address five years earlier, below 54% across New South Wales.