South Penrith real estate

Fewer than 1% of occupied homes were flats or apartments at the 2021 Census, below 22% across NSW. Separate houses made up 92%, above 66% for the state, and townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses were 7%, below 12%. The figures suggest a larger share of homes as separate houses than across NSW.

Homes with three bedrooms were 53% in South Penrith, above 35% across NSW, and homes with four or more were 39%, above 34%. Homes with two bedrooms or fewer were 7%, below 30% for the state. Of private dwellings, 4% were unoccupied on Census night, below the NSW figure of 9%.

Two of South Penrith's money figures are the same as the state's. The median rent was $420 a week, the same as $420 across NSW, and the median mortgage repayment was $2,167 a month, the same as $2,167 for the state. Median household income was $1,870 a week, above $1,829 across NSW. Worked out on this page from the two medians, rent equals 22% of the median weekly income of all households, below the 23% for NSW.

Households paying off a mortgage were 37%, above 33% across NSW, while 31% owned outright, below 32%. Renting households made up 30%, below 33% statewide. Of those renting, 74% rented from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, above 69% across NSW, which suggests renting here more often runs through an agent than across the state.

One 2021 question asked where people aged five and over lived five years earlier, and 63% of them gave the same address, above 54% across NSW. That suggests a larger share of people aged five and over at the same address in 2021 as in 2016 than across NSW.

The suburb of South Penrith counted 12,005 people at the 2021 Census. The median age was 37 years, below 39 across NSW, suggesting a younger population than the state. An average household held 2.7 people, above 2.6 for NSW, so homes here were shared by more people on average than across the state.