Flats or apartments in 53% of occupied Collaroy homes
Flats or apartments are 53% of occupied homes in Collaroy, above the NSW figure of 22%, and separate houses are 42%, below 66% statewide. Townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses are 4%, below the 12% across NSW. On Census night, 7% of private dwellings in Collaroy were unoccupied, below the state figure of 9%. 48% of Collaroy's homes have two bedrooms or fewer, above 30% across NSW. Three bedroom homes are 21%, below the NSW figure of 35%, and homes with four or more bedrooms are 30%, below 34% statewide.
Rent, income and repayments in Collaroy
Median rent in Collaroy is $600 a week, above the $420 across NSW, and median household income is $2,372 a week, above the state median of $1,829. Worked out on this page from those two medians, the median rent equals 25% of the median weekly income of all Collaroy households, renters or not, above the NSW figure of 23%. The median mortgage repayment is $2,800 a month, above the $2,167 statewide.
30% of households rent, below the 33% across NSW, and 81% of renting households rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, above the state figure of 69%. 37% of households own their home outright, above 32% across NSW, while 31% are paying off a mortgage, below the NSW figure of 33%.
A median age of 43, and the 2016 address
Collaroy's median age is 43 years, above the NSW median of 39. There are 2.5 people in an average household in Collaroy, below the 2.6 across NSW. At the 2021 Census, 7,944 people lived in the suburb of Collaroy. 55% of people aged five and over in Collaroy lived at the same address five years earlier, above the 54% across NSW. The figure rests on one 2021 question about where each person lived in 2016.