Menai real estate

Townhouses, terraces and semi-detached houses make up 22% of occupied homes in Menai, above the 12% across NSW, while flats or apartments sit at 3%, below the 22% across NSW. Separate houses account for 75% of occupied homes, above the 66% across NSW.

Homes with two bedrooms or fewer are uncommon, at 5% against 30% across NSW. Four or more bedrooms accounts for 54% (34% across NSW), and three bedrooms for 41% (35% across NSW). On Census night, 3% of private dwellings in Menai were unoccupied, below the 9% across NSW, a lower share standing empty that night than across the state.

15% of households in Menai rent, below the 33% across NSW. Paying off a mortgage is more common, at 48% of households against 33%, and owning outright, at 36%, is above the 32% across NSW. Of the renting households, 62% rented from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, below the 69% across NSW.

The median household income was $2,575 a week, above the $1,829 across NSW. The median rent was $560 a week, above the $420 across NSW, and the median mortgage repayment was $2,600 a month, above the $2,167 across NSW. Worked out on this page from two medians, the rent equals 22% of the median weekly income of all households, renters or not, below the 23% across NSW.

In Menai, 68% of people aged five and over lived at the same address five years earlier, above the 54% across NSW. It counts each person aged five and over rather than each household.

An average household holds 3 people, above the 2.6 across NSW, while the median age of 39 years is the same as across NSW. At the 2021 Census, 10,419 people lived in the suburb of Menai. The household figure suggests more people sharing each home than across the state, and the age figure suggests residents neither older nor younger than across NSW as a whole.