Separate houses and three bedrooms
At the 2021 Census, 82% of occupied homes in Kingsgrove were separate houses, above 66% across NSW. Flats and apartments made up 9%, below the state's 22%, which suggests a smaller share of people living in apartment buildings than across NSW. Townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses came to 8%, below 12% for the state.
In Kingsgrove, 45% of homes have three bedrooms, above 35% across NSW. Homes with two bedrooms or fewer come to 22%, below 30% for the state, and those with four or more bedrooms to 32%, below 34% across NSW. Of private dwellings, 6% were unoccupied on Census night, below the NSW figure of 9%.
Owned outright, and rented at a higher median
In Kingsgrove, 41% of households own their home outright, above 32% across NSW, while 30% are paying off a mortgage, below 33% for the state. Their median mortgage repayment is $2,600 a month, above $2,167 across NSW. The median household income is $1,898 a week, above the NSW median of $1,829.
Renting households are 26% of the total, below 33% across NSW. Of them, 62% rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, below 69% for the state. The median rent in Kingsgrove is $500 a week, above $420 across NSW.
Set against the median weekly income of all households, renters or not, that median rent equals 26%, worked out on this page from the two medians. Across NSW the same comparison gives 23%, so Kingsgrove sits above the state.
Larger households, and 68% at one address
Of people aged five and over in Kingsgrove, 68% lived at the same address five years earlier, above 54% across NSW. That suggests a larger share of people aged five and over lived at the same address five years earlier than across the state.
The suburb of Kingsgrove was home to 12,881 people at the 2021 Census. Households average 2.9 people, above 2.6 across NSW. The median age is 42 years, above the state's 39, which suggests an older population than across NSW.