Bonnyrigg's mix of houses and attached homes
Flats or apartments make up 7% of occupied homes in Bonnyrigg, below the 22% across NSW, and townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses 20%, above 12%. Separate houses come to 74%, above the 66% statewide.
Small homes are less common. In Bonnyrigg, 14% have two bedrooms or fewer, below 30% across NSW, while three bedrooms covers 49% of homes, above the state's 35%. Four or more bedrooms sits at 35%, above 34% statewide. At the 2021 Census, 5% of private dwellings in Bonnyrigg were unoccupied on Census night, below the 9% across NSW.
Renting in Bonnyrigg, and who the landlord is
Among renting households in Bonnyrigg, 36% rent from a landlord recorded as a real estate agent, below 69% across NSW. The rest rent from state housing, community housing, a private person or another landlord, or did not say whom. Renting itself is more common here: 43% of households rent, above the 33% statewide.
Median household income is $1,393 a week, below $1,829 across NSW, and median rent is $374 a week, below the state's $420. Worked out on this page from those two medians, rent equals 27% of the median income of all households, above 23% for NSW. Of households, 25% own outright, below 32%, and 29% are paying off a mortgage, below 33%, with a median repayment of $1,950 a month, below $2,167 statewide.
Larger households
An average household in Bonnyrigg holds 3.2 people, above the 2.6 across NSW, which suggests more people sharing each home than in the state generally. The suburb of Bonnyrigg counted 9,785 people at the 2021 Census, and its median age of 37 years is below the 39 statewide, pointing to a younger population.
Of people aged five and over in Bonnyrigg, 63% were at the same address as five years earlier, above 54% across NSW. The figure comes from one 2021 question about where each person lived in 2016.