Separate houses at 80%
At the 2021 Census, flats or apartments accounted for 1% of occupied homes in Holsworthy, below the New South Wales share of 22%. Separate houses came to 80%, above the state's 66%, and townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses to 20%, above the 12% statewide.
In Holsworthy, 4% of homes had two bedrooms or fewer, below the 30% across the state. Three-bedroom homes made up 48%, above the 35% across New South Wales, and homes with four or more bedrooms 47%, above the 34% statewide. On Census night, 4% of private dwellings in Holsworthy were unoccupied, below the state figure of 9%.
Home loans, rent and income in Holsworthy
In Holsworthy, 48% of households are paying off a mortgage, above the 33% across New South Wales, and 18% own their home outright, below the state's 32%. The median mortgage repayment was $2,188 a month, above the state median of $2,167. Median household income reached $2,571 a week, above the $1,829 recorded across New South Wales.
In Holsworthy, 33% of households rent, the same as the 33% statewide. Among them, 83% rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, above the state's 69%. Median rent was $515 a week, above the New South Wales median of $420.
Measured against the median income of all households, renters or not, that median rent equals 20%. This share is worked out on this page from the two medians, and the same calculation across New South Wales gives 23%, so Holsworthy sits below the state.
A median age of 31 years
Households in Holsworthy held 3.2 people on average at the 2021 Census, above the 2.6 across New South Wales. The suburb of Holsworthy was home to 5,657 people, and its median age was 31 years, below the state median of 39.
Of people aged five and over in Holsworthy, 54% lived at the same address five years earlier, the same as the 54% across New South Wales. The figure comes from one 2021 question about where each person lived in 2016.