$1,625 —
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
Median monthly mortgage repayment for households with a mortgage.
Delegate River · Suburb / Locality
Where and how people live — the homes, how they are held, and what they cost.
Higher bedroom occupancy than most similar areas defines the housing landscape in Delegate River. This sparsely populated region sees residents fitting more people into each room than is common across Victoria or Australia.
Rents, mortgages and crowding.
The typical monthly home loan payment is $1,625, which is around the middle for similar areas and sits a little below the figures for Victoria and Australia.
$1,625 —
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
Median monthly mortgage repayment for households with a mortgage.
How homes are owned or rented.
The most common how homes are owned or rented is Owned with a mortgage at 100%, ahead of Other tenure (100%).
Delegate River splits fairly evenly between Owned with a mortgage (36%) and Other tenure (36%), with Owned outright at 29%.
Houses, townhouses, apartments and bedrooms.
Homes here are more crowded than usual, with 1.10 people per bedroom. This is well above the national and state figure of 0.80.
1.10 —
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
Average number of usual residents per bedroom — a crowding measure.
In Delegate River, Separate house is the majority at 100%.
In Delegate River, 5 or more is the majority at 100%.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Housing & Dwellings in Delegate River [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20734/delegate-river/topic/housing-dwellings