Greystanes real estate

Separate houses account for 85% of occupied homes in Greystanes, above the 66% across NSW, while flats or apartments make up 1%, below the state's 22%. Townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses come to 13%, above 12% for NSW. These shares suggest a place built around freestanding homes, with apartment buildings a small part of the local housing.

At the smaller end, 6% of homes in Greystanes have two bedrooms or fewer, below 30% across NSW. Three-bedroom homes come to 49%, above the state's 35%, and 44% have four or more bedrooms, above 34% across NSW. At the 2021 Census, 5% of private dwellings were unoccupied on Census night, below the NSW figure of 9%.

Outright ownership runs above the state here: 40% of households in Greystanes own their home outright, above 32% across NSW, and 37% are paying off a mortgage, above the state's 33%. Renting households come to 20%, below 33% across NSW. Among those renters, 69% rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, the same as the 69% across the state.

Median rent in Greystanes is $480 a week, above $420 across NSW, and the median mortgage repayment is $2,452 a month, above the state's $2,167. Median household income is $1,930 a week, above $1,829 for NSW. Worked out on this page from the two medians, the rent equals 25% of the median weekly household income, above 23% across the state.

Of people aged five and over in Greystanes, 69% lived at the same address five years earlier, above the 54% across NSW. The figure comes from one 2021 question about where each person lived in 2016, rather than two separate counts.

The suburb of Greystanes had 23,511 people at the 2021 Census. An average household holds 3 people, above 2.6 across NSW, and the median age is 39 years, the same as the state median of 39. So the median age matches the state, while the average household is larger than the NSW figure.