Attached homes and three bedrooms
Townhouses, terraces and semi-detached houses account for 38% of occupied homes in Werrington, against 12% for NSW. Separate houses are 43%, below 66% across the state, and flats or apartments 19%, below 22% for NSW. The figures suggest a larger share of homes joined to a neighbour's than across NSW, with apartment buildings below the state share.
Werrington homes with three bedrooms come to 48%, above 35% across NSW. Those with four or more bedrooms are 25%, below the state's 34%, and those with two bedrooms or fewer are 25%, below 30% for NSW. On Census night, 8% of private dwellings in Werrington were unoccupied, below the 9% recorded across NSW.
A suburb where renting is common
Renting households make up 46% in Werrington, above 33% across NSW, while 16% of households own outright, below the state's 32%. Those paying off a mortgage come to 36%, above 33% for NSW. Of the renting households, 77% rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, above 69% across the state.
Median rent in Werrington is $360 a week, below $420 across NSW, and the median mortgage repayment is $1,950 a month, below the state's $2,167. The median household income is $1,605 a week, below $1,829 for NSW. Worked out on this page from the two medians, the rent equals 22% of the median weekly income of all Werrington households, renters or not, below 23% across NSW.
Younger residents, and fewer at the same address
When the 2021 Census asked each person where they lived in 2016, 41% of those aged five and over in Werrington gave the same address they gave in 2021, below 54% across NSW. That one answer suggests a lower share of people living at the same address as five years earlier than across the state.
The median age in Werrington is 32 years, below 39 for NSW, which suggests a younger population than the state's. The average household holds 2.6 people, the same as the 2.6 across NSW, so on household size Werrington matches the state. At the 2021 Census, 5,328 people lived in the suburb of Werrington.