Flats, houses and bedroom counts in Willoughby
In Willoughby, 32% of occupied homes are flats or apartments, above the 22% across NSW. Separate houses make up 56% of occupied homes, below the 66% across NSW. Townhouses, terraces and semi-detached houses account for 11% of occupied homes in Willoughby, below the 12% of occupied homes across NSW.
Counted by bedrooms, 36% of homes in Willoughby have two bedrooms or fewer, above the 30% across NSW. Three bedrooms is the count in 32% of homes, below the 35% across NSW, and 31% have four or more bedrooms, below the 34% across NSW. On Census night, 8% of private dwellings in Willoughby were unoccupied, below the 9% across NSW.
Income, rent and mortgage repayments
Households in Willoughby have a median income of $2,995 a week, above the $1,829 across NSW, and a median mortgage repayment of $3,500 a month, above the $2,167 across NSW. Median rent is $583 a week, above the $420 across NSW. Worked out on this page from the two medians, that rent equals 19% of the median weekly income of all Willoughby households, renters or not, below the 23% across NSW.
At the 2021 Census, 33% of households in Willoughby owned their home outright, above the 32% across NSW, and 34% were paying off a mortgage, above the 33% across NSW. Households that rent made up 31%, below the 33% across NSW. Of those renting households, 77% rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, above the 69% across NSW.
7,124 people and their 2016 address
At the 2021 Census, 7,124 people lived in the suburb of Willoughby. Their median age was 40 years, above the median of 39 years across NSW. An average household in Willoughby held 2.7 people, above the average of 2.6 people in a household across NSW.
One 2021 Census question asked each person aged five and over where they lived in 2016. In Willoughby, 57% of people aged five and over lived at the same address five years earlier, above the 54% of people aged five and over across NSW.