Apartment buildings and smaller homes
Flats and apartments make up 68% of occupied homes in Artarmon, compared with 22% across NSW. Separate houses sit at 23%, below the NSW figure of 66%, and townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses account for 9%, below 12% statewide. Taken together, these figures suggest that apartment living is a large part of everyday life in Artarmon.
Bedroom counts lean small. 66% of homes have two bedrooms or fewer, above the 30% across NSW, while 19% have three bedrooms (35% across NSW) and 15% have four or more (34% across NSW). On Census night, 8% of private dwellings in Artarmon were unoccupied, below the NSW figure of 9%.
What renting and repayments look like in Artarmon
At the 2021 Census, 50% of households in Artarmon rented their home, above 33% across NSW. Of those renting households, 79% rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, above 69% statewide. The median rent is $525 a week, above the NSW median of $420.
Median household income is $2,420 a week, above $1,829 across NSW. Worked out on this page from those two medians, the median weekly rent equals 22% of the median weekly income of all households in Artarmon, renters or not. Across NSW the same comparison gives 23%, so Artarmon sits below the state on it.
Paying off a mortgage is less common here: 23% of households, below 33% across NSW. The median mortgage repayment is $2,772 a month, above $2,167 statewide. Outright ownership covers 25% of households, below the NSW figure of 32%, so both forms of owning sit below the state in Artarmon.
A younger median age, and fewer at the same address
Of people aged five and over in Artarmon, 48% lived at the same address five years earlier, below 54% across NSW. That comes from one 2021 question about where each person lived in 2016.
The suburb of Artarmon was home to 9,417 people at the 2021 Census. The median age was 37 years, below 39 across NSW, which suggests a younger population than the state's. Households averaged 2.5 people, below the NSW average of 2.6, which suggests smaller households sharing each home.