Apartments and homes with two bedrooms or fewer in Rhodes
Separate houses make up 3% of occupied homes in Rhodes, below 66% across New South Wales, and townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses make up 2%, below the state's 12%. With 95% of occupied homes being flats or apartments, the figures suggest that a larger share of Rhodes residents live in apartment buildings than across New South Wales.
Homes with two bedrooms or fewer make up 83% of homes in Rhodes, above 30% across New South Wales. Three-bedroom homes make up 14%, below the state's 35%, and homes with four or more bedrooms make up 2%, below 34% across New South Wales. On Census night, 12% of private dwellings in Rhodes were unoccupied, above the 9% recorded for the state.
Rent and repayments in Rhodes
In Rhodes, 59% of households rent, above 33% across New South Wales. Of the renting households, 87% rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, above the state's 69%. The others rent from state housing, community housing, a private person or another landlord. Households paying off a mortgage make up 28%, below 33% across New South Wales, and 11% own their home outright, below 32% for the state.
The median rent in Rhodes was $560 a week, above $420 across New South Wales. The median household income was $2,183 a week, above the state's $1,829, and the median mortgage repayment was $2,500 a month, above $2,167 for the state. Taking one median against the other, this page finds that the median weekly rent equals 26% of the median weekly income of all Rhodes households, renters or not, above 23% across New South Wales. That is a calculation made here, not a Census figure, and not what renters pay.
Ages, households and the 2016 address
The median age in Rhodes was 32 years at the 2021 Census, below 39 across New South Wales, which suggests a younger population than the state's. Across the suburb of Rhodes and its 11,453 people, an average household held 2.2 people, below 2.6 across New South Wales. That suggests smaller households by number of people, and nothing more about those households. A single 2021 question asked people aged five and over where they had lived in 2016. In Rhodes, 25% gave the same address, below 54% across New South Wales.