Separate houses with three bedrooms or more
Small homes are uncommon here. 3% of homes in Claremont Meadows have two bedrooms or fewer, against 30% across NSW, while 54% have four or more bedrooms (34% across NSW) and 42% have three (35% across NSW). Taken together, the bedroom figures suggest a suburb built around homes of three bedrooms or more rather than smaller ones.
Separate houses make up 93% of occupied homes, above the 66% across NSW. Townhouses, terraces and semi-detached houses account for 6%, below the 12% across NSW. On Census night, 2% of private dwellings in Claremont Meadows were unoccupied, below the 9% across NSW, a lower share standing empty than across the state.
Mortgages above the state, renting below
Paying off a mortgage is more common in Claremont Meadows than across NSW: 57% of households, against 33%. Renting, at 21% of households, sits below the 33% across NSW, and owning outright, also at 21%, is below the 32% across NSW. The median mortgage repayment was $2,167 a month, the same as across NSW.
The median household income was $2,297 a week, above the $1,829 across NSW, and the median rent was $430 a week, above the $420 across NSW. Worked out on this page from those two medians, the rent equals 19% of the median weekly income of all households here, renters or not, below the 23% across NSW. Of renting households, 75% rented from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, above the 69% across NSW.
Bigger households, younger residents
An average household in Claremont Meadows holds 3.2 people, above the 2.6 across NSW. The median age of 33 years sits below the 39 across NSW, which suggests younger residents than the state as a whole. At the 2021 Census, 5,177 people lived in the suburb of Claremont Meadows.
One 2021 question asked where each person aged five and over had lived in 2016. In Claremont Meadows, 65% of people aged five and over lived at the same address five years earlier, above the 54% across NSW.