Gerringong's houses and their bedrooms
Separate houses are 79% of occupied homes in Gerringong, above the 66% across New South Wales. Townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses are 15%, above 12% across the state, while flats or apartments are 5%, below 22%.
Homes with four or more bedrooms are 46% of Gerringong's homes, above the 34% across New South Wales, and three-bedroom homes are 36%, against 35%. At the other end, 17% have two bedrooms or fewer, below the 30% across the state. Separately, the 17% of private dwellings unoccupied on Census night sits above the 9% across New South Wales.
Outright owners, renters and a $500 median rent
In Gerringong, 44% of households own their home outright, above the 32% across New South Wales. Another 32% of households in Gerringong are paying off a mortgage, against 33% across the state, with a median mortgage repayment of $2,167 a month, the same as across New South Wales. Renters are 20% of households, below the 33% across the state.
The median rent is $500 a week, above $420 across New South Wales, and the median household income is $1,899 a week, above $1,829. Taken as a ratio on this page, the median rent equals 26% of the median weekly income of all Gerringong households, renters or not, above the 23% across the state. The ratio sets two medians side by side; it is not what any renter pays.
Of renting households in Gerringong, 65% rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, below the 69% across New South Wales. The rest rent from state housing, community housing, a private person or another landlord. That share sits below the state's, and so does the share of Gerringong households renting at all.
A median age of 46
Of the 4,165 people who lived in the suburb of Gerringong at the 2021 Census, the median age was 46 years, above the 39 across New South Wales. That suggests an older population than across the state. Households in Gerringong average 2.6 people, the same as the 2.6 across New South Wales. On household size, the suburb and the state are level.
In Gerringong, 59% of people aged five and over lived at the same address five years earlier, against 54% across New South Wales. The 2021 Census asked each person where they lived in 2016, and that single question is the source.