$125 —
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
Median weekly rent paid by households renting their home.
Wehla · Suburb / Locality
Where and how people live — the homes, how they are held, and what they cost.
Monthly mortgage payments as low as $740 make Wehla one of the most affordable places to live in the region. This is a sparsely populated area where housing costs are far below both the state and national figures, though homes are slightly more crowded than usual.
All suburb / locality areas, 2021. The marker is Wehla — lower than 90% of areas.
Rents, mortgages and crowding.
Typical weekly rent is just $125, which is far below the $375 national figure. Similarly, the usual monthly home-loan payment of $740 is among the lowest for similar areas and sits well under the Victorian average.
$125 —
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
Median weekly rent paid by households renting their home.
$740 —
Lower than 92% 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 outright at 53%, ahead of Owned with a mortgage (47%).
In Wehla, Owned outright is the majority at 53%; Owned with a mortgage is next at 47%.
Houses, townhouses, apartments and bedrooms.
Homes here are a little more crowded than in most of Australia, with 0.90 people per bedroom compared to the national figure of 0.80.
0.90 —
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Average number of usual residents per bedroom — a crowding measure.
In Wehla, 2 bedrooms is the majority at 58%; 3 bedrooms is next at 42%.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Housing & Dwellings in Wehla [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22739/wehla/topic/housing-dwellings