Three bedrooms in 60% of St Albans homes
60% of homes in St Albans have three bedrooms, above the VIC figure of 42%. 19% have four or more bedrooms, below the 33% across VIC, and 19% have two bedrooms or fewer, below the 25% statewide. On Census night, 8% of private dwellings were unoccupied, below the VIC figure of 11%. Separate houses make up 75% of occupied homes, above the 73% across VIC. Townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses are 16%, above the state figure of 14%, and flats or apartments are 9%, below 12% statewide.
Rent, income and ownership in St Albans
Median household income in St Albans is $1,205 a week, below the VIC median of $1,759, and median rent is $325 a week, below $370 statewide. Worked out on this page from those two medians, the median rent equals 27% of the median weekly income of all St Albans households, renters or not, above the VIC figure of 21%. 36% of households rent, above the 29% across VIC.
Of the renting households, 58% rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, below the state figure of 73%. 24% of households are paying off a mortgage, below 36% across VIC, with a median repayment of $1,500 a month, below the $1,859 statewide. 35% own their home outright, above the VIC figure of 32%.
St Albans households, age and the 2016 address
At the 2021 Census, 38,042 people lived in the suburb of St Albans. There are 2.8 people in an average household in St Albans, above the 2.5 across VIC. The median age is 36 years, below the VIC median of 38. 57% of people aged five and over in St Albans lived at the same address five years earlier, above the 54% across VIC. That figure comes from one 2021 question about where each person lived in 2016.