Waterloo real estate

At the 2021 Census, flats or apartments made up 91% of occupied homes in Waterloo, above the NSW figure of 22%. Separate houses came to fewer than 1%, below the state's 66%, and townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses to 8%, below the 12% across New South Wales.

Homes with two bedrooms or fewer reached 83%, above the state's 30%; three-bedroom homes made up 13% (35% across NSW) and four or more bedrooms 1% (34% across NSW), both below. On Census night 14% of private dwellings in Waterloo were unoccupied, above the 9% across New South Wales.

At the 2021 Census, 73% of households in Waterloo rented, above the 33% across New South Wales. Of those renting households, 62% rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, below the state figure of 69%, with the others renting from state housing, community housing, a private person or another landlord, or not saying whom. The median rent was $530 a week, above the NSW median of $420.

Outright owners made up 6% of households, below the 32% across NSW, and households paying off a mortgage 18%, below the state's 33%. The median mortgage repayment was $2,500 a month, above the state's $2,167. Median household income in Waterloo was $2,028 a week, above the NSW figure of $1,829. Worked out on this page from the two medians, the median rent equals 26% of the median income of all Waterloo households, renters or not, above the 23% across New South Wales.

At the 2021 Census, 28% of people aged five and over in Waterloo lived at the same address five years earlier, below the 54% across New South Wales. The suburb of Waterloo was home to 16,379 people. An average household held 1.8 people, below the NSW average of 2.6, and the median age was 33 years, below the state's 39.