Separate houses, and townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses
Townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses account for 35% of occupied homes in Parkdale, above 14% across VIC. Separate houses come to 55%, below the Victorian share of 73%, and flats or apartments to 10%, below 12%. These figures suggest a larger share of people here live in a townhouse, terrace or semi-detached house than across Victoria.
Homes with two bedrooms or fewer make up 30% in Parkdale, above 25% statewide. Three-bedroom homes account for 41%, below 42% across VIC, and homes with four or more bedrooms for 29%, below the state's 33%. On Census night, 6% of private dwellings in Parkdale were unoccupied, below the Victorian figure of 11%.
Repayments, ownership and rent in Parkdale
The median mortgage repayment in Parkdale is $2,366 a month, above $1,859 across VIC. Households paying off a mortgage come to 38%, above 36% statewide, and those owning outright to 38%, above the state's 32%. Renting households make up 22%, below 29% across Victoria, and 76% of them rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, above 73%.
Household income in Parkdale has a median of $2,130 a week, above $1,759 across VIC, and the median rent is $410 a week, above $370. Worked out on this page from those two medians, rent equals 19% of the median weekly income of all households, renters or not, below 21% across Victoria.
Who was at their 2016 address
At the 2021 Census, 64% of people aged five and over in Parkdale lived at the same address five years earlier, above 54% across VIC. Because the figure comes from one 2021 question about where each person lived in 2016, it suggests a larger share of people aged five and over lived at the same address five years earlier than across Victoria.
The suburb of Parkdale was home to 12,308 people at the 2021 Census. Its median age is 43 years, above 38 statewide, suggesting an older population than Victoria as a whole. An average household holds 2.5 people, the same as the Victorian average.