$300 —
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
Median weekly rent paid by households renting their home.
Laffing Waters · Suburb / Locality
Where and how people live — the homes, how they are held, and what they cost.
Separate houses make up 100% of all homes in Laffing Waters, a figure far above the 72.3% national average. This is a place of large, detached properties where the typical resident owns their home outright more often than in most other parts of Australia.
All suburb / locality areas, 2021. The marker is Laffing Waters — higher than 57% of areas.
| Laffing Waters | $300 |
|---|---|
| 2795, NSW | $320 |
| New South Wales | $420 |
| Australia | $375 |
Rents, mortgages and crowding.
Weekly rents are well below the national figure at $300. Typical monthly mortgage payments are $1,733, which is higher than most similar areas but well below the New South Wales average.
$300 —
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
Median weekly rent paid by households renting their home.
$1,733 —
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
Median monthly mortgage repayment for households with a mortgage.
In Laffing Waters, $1,000–$1,799 is the majority at 100%.
How homes are owned or rented.
A high 40.6% of homes are owned outright, which is well above the national figure of 31%. Around 21.9% of households rent, a rate that is far below the state average.
21.9% —
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings that are rented.
40.6% —
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings owned outright (no mortgage).
Laffing Waters splits fairly evenly between Owned with a mortgage (41%) and Owned outright (38%), with Rented at 21%.
Houses, townhouses, apartments and bedrooms.
Homes here are overwhelmingly large, with 90.6% having three or more bedrooms. This helps explain why there are only 0.7 people per bedroom, a figure well below the New South Wales average of 0.9.
0.70 —
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Average number of usual residents per bedroom — a crowding measure.
100.0% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings that are separate houses.
90.6% —
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with three or more bedrooms.
In Laffing Waters, Separate house is the majority at 100%.
In Laffing Waters, the largest group is 4 bedrooms at 50%, followed by 5 or more (25%) and 3 bedrooms (16%).
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Housing & Dwellings in Laffing Waters [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12242/laffing-waters/topic/housing-dwellings