Houses and flats, few townhouses
Townhouses, terraces and semi-detached houses are 3% of occupied homes in Roseville, below the 12% across NSW. Separate houses make up 69% of occupied homes, above the 66% across NSW, and flats or apartments 28%, above the 22% across NSW.
Larger homes are more common: 48% have four or more bedrooms, against 34% across NSW. Three bedrooms, at 26%, is below the 35% across NSW, and two bedrooms or fewer, at 25%, is below the 30% across NSW. On Census night, 7% of private dwellings in Roseville were unoccupied, below the 9% across NSW.
Higher incomes, higher repayments
The median household income in Roseville was $3,200 a week, above the $1,829 across NSW. The median mortgage repayment was $3,651 a month, above the $2,167 across NSW, and the median rent was $600 a week, above the $420 across NSW. Worked out on this page, that median rent equals 19% of the median weekly income of all households here, renters or not, below the 23% across NSW.
Owning outright is more common than across NSW, at 39% of households against 32%. Renting is less common, at 26% against 33%, and paying off a mortgage matches the state at 33%. Among renting households, 83% rented from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, above the 69% across NSW.
Larger households, an older median
Roseville households hold 2.9 people on average, above the 2.6 across NSW. The median age is 40 years, above the 39 across NSW, which suggests older residents than the state as a whole. The suburb of Roseville was home to 10,340 people at the 2021 Census.
Of people aged five and over in Roseville, 59% lived at the same address five years earlier, above the 54% across NSW. The figure comes from one 2021 question about where each person lived in 2016. It is one answer per person aged five and over, not a count of households.