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Mid-Coast Real Estate

Mid-Coast real estate

On Census night in 2021, 16% of private dwellings in the Mid-Coast council area were unoccupied, above the NSW figure of 9%. That suggests a larger share of dwellings standing empty that night than across NSW.

  • House 82
  • Townhouse or terrace 9
  • Flat or apartment 7
  • Other or not stated 2
  • Owned outright 48
  • Mortgaged 24
  • Rented 22
  • Other or not stated 6
Homes in the Mid-Coast council area as a street of 100, from the census count of households by kind of home and tenure. Other or not stated also takes up the rounding.
Median rent$315 a weekNSW $420
Median mortgage repayment$1,500 a monthNSW $2,167
Median household income$1,060 a weekNSW $1,829

Separate houses, three bedrooms, and dwellings left empty

Across the Mid-Coast council area, 16% of private dwellings were unoccupied on Census night, against 9% across NSW. The Census does not say why a dwelling was empty that night, so the figure records a count rather than a reason.

Separate houses make up 82% of occupied homes here, above 66% across NSW. Flats and apartments come to 7%, below the state's 22%, and townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses to 9%, below 12%. The figures suggest that living in an apartment building is less common in the Mid-Coast council area than across the state.

Three bedrooms is the size above the state, at 44% of homes against 35% across NSW. Homes with two bedrooms or fewer come to 24% (30% across NSW), and those with four or more to 31% (34% across NSW), both below.

New South Wales, the same way: 66 houses, 22 flats, 33 rented. Other or not stated also takes up the rounding.

Owning outright, and the cost of renting

Of households in the Mid-Coast council area, 48% own their home with no mortgage, above 32% across NSW. Paying off a mortgage accounts for 24% of households, below 33% statewide, and renting for 22%, below the state's 33%. Of renting households, 63% rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, below 69% across NSW.

The median household income here is $1,060 a week, below $1,829 across NSW. The median rent, at $315 a week, is also below the state's $420. Worked out on this page from those two medians, the median weekly rent equals 30% of the median weekly income of all households in the area, renters or not; across NSW the same share is 23%, so the Mid-Coast council area sits above.

Among households with a mortgage, the median repayment is $1,500 a month in the Mid-Coast council area. That sits below the NSW median repayment of $2,167 a month, recorded at the same 2021 Census across the state.

An older population in smaller households

The median age in the Mid-Coast council area is 54 years, above 39 across NSW, which suggests an older population than the state's. At the 2021 Census, 96,579 people lived in the Mid-Coast council area, a figure that covers the whole council area rather than any single town within it.

Households hold 2.2 people on average, below 2.6 across NSW. On the question of where people lived in 2016, 54% of people aged five and over in the Mid-Coast council area gave the same address as in 2021. That is the same as the NSW figure of 54%, so on this measure the area matches the state.