Gymea real estate

Gymea's homes are spread across three kinds. Separate houses account for 45% of occupied homes, below the 66% across NSW, while flats or apartments reach 32% (22% across NSW) and townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses 23% (12% across NSW).

Homes with two bedrooms or fewer make up 37%, above the 30% across NSW, and three-bedroom homes 39%, above the 35%. Four or more bedrooms, at 24%, sits below the 34% across NSW. On Census night, 6% of private dwellings were unoccupied, below the 9% across NSW.

The median mortgage repayment in Gymea was $2,600 a month, above the $2,167 across NSW, and the median rent $500 a week, above the $420. Median household income was $2,049 a week, against $1,829 across NSW. Worked out on this page from the rent and income medians, the rent equals 24% of the median weekly income of all households, renters or not, above the 23% across NSW.

Each way of holding a home has its own direction here. In Gymea, 34% of households are paying off a mortgage, above the 33% across NSW, and 33% own outright, above the 32%, while 32% rent, below the 33% across NSW. Of renting households, 78% rented from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, above the 69% across NSW.

Gymea's median age was 39 years at the 2021 Census, the same as across NSW, so on age alone the suburb mirrors the state. Households were smaller, with 2.5 people in an average household against 2.6 across NSW, which suggests fewer people under each roof than across the state. The suburb of Gymea was home to 8,219 people at the 2021 Census.

One 2021 question asked each person where they lived in 2016. Of people aged five and over in Gymea, 55% lived at the same address five years earlier, above the 54% across NSW.