Edithvale's flats, townhouses and houses
Separate houses account for 51% of occupied homes in Edithvale, below the 73% across Victoria. Flats or apartments account for 32%, and townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses for 18%, above the state's 14%. By these figures, apartment buildings and attached homes hold a larger share of Edithvale's occupied homes than across Victoria, alongside the separate houses that make up 51%.
Three-bedroom homes make up 48% of homes in Edithvale, above 42% across Victoria. Homes with four or more bedrooms make up 23%, below the state's 33%, and homes with two bedrooms or fewer make up 29%, above 25% across Victoria. At the 2021 Census, 8% of private dwellings in Edithvale were unoccupied on Census night, below 11% for the state.
Paying for a home in Edithvale
Edithvale's median household income was $2,101 a week at the 2021 Census, above $1,759 across Victoria. The median rent was $429 a week, above the state's $370, and the median mortgage repayment was $2,167 a month, above $1,859 across Victoria. Worked out here from two medians, the median weekly rent equals 20% of the median weekly income of all Edithvale households, renters or not, below 21% across Victoria. It is not a Census figure, and it is not what renters pay.
In Edithvale, 41% of households are paying off a mortgage, above 36% across Victoria, and 33% own their home outright, above the state's 32%. Households that rent make up 25%, below 29% across Victoria. Of those renting households, 84% rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, above 73% for the state. The remaining renting households rent from state housing, community housing, a private person or another landlord.
Who called Edithvale home in 2021
There were 6,276 people in the suburb of Edithvale at the 2021 Census. The median age was 40 years, above 38 across Victoria, which suggests a population older than the state's by that measure. An average household held 2.4 people, below the 2.5 across Victoria. These two figures count people only, and they describe the suburb at a single Census.
The 2021 Census asked everyone aged five and over where they had lived in 2016. In Edithvale, 57% answered with the address they lived at in 2021, above 54% across Victoria. Over that five-year span, from 2016 to 2021, the Edithvale share at one address was the higher of the two.