Houses first, and three bedrooms
In Blackburn North, 1% of occupied homes are flats or apartments, below the 12% across Victoria. Separate houses account for 83%, above the state's 73%, and townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses for 15%, above the 14% across Victoria. The figures suggest that at the 2021 Census apartment buildings played a small part in how people here lived.
Three bedrooms is the common pattern. Some 54% of homes here have three bedrooms, above the 42% across Victoria, while 11% have two bedrooms or fewer, below the state's 25%. At the larger end, 35% have four or more bedrooms, above the 33% across Victoria. Smaller homes, on these figures, are less common here than in the state as a whole.
Empty homes were less common too. On Census night, 6% of private dwellings in Blackburn North were unoccupied, below the 11% across Victoria. Read the other way, a greater share of the suburb's private dwellings were occupied on Census night than across the state, which suggests few homes here sat empty at the 2021 Census.
Higher repayments, renting below the state
The median mortgage repayment in Blackburn North is $2,400 a month, above the $1,859 across Victoria. Median rent is $431 a week, against $370 across the state, so both sit above Victoria's figures. Median household income is also above the state, at $2,021 a week compared with $1,759 across Victoria.
Renting households make up 21%, below the 29% across Victoria. In their place, 38% of households own their home outright, above the state's 32%, and 39% are paying off a mortgage, above the 36% across Victoria. Of the renting households, 76% rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, above the 73% across the state.
Setting the median weekly rent against the median weekly income of all households here, renters or not, gives 21%. Worked out the same way across Victoria, the figure is also 21%, so on this measure Blackburn North is the same as the state. It is a comparison of two medians, not a figure for any household.
Same address as in 2016
Of people aged five and over in Blackburn North, 66% lived at the same address five years earlier, according to one 2021 question about where they lived in 2016. Across Victoria the share was 54%, so Blackburn North sits above the state.
The suburb of Blackburn North was home to 7,627 people at the 2021 Census. An average household here holds 2.8 people, above the 2.5 across Victoria, which suggests homes shared by more people than the state's average. The median age is 39 years, above the 38 across Victoria, which suggests residents older than the state's on the whole.