Four bedrooms or more, and no apartments at all
Lyndhurst's homes lean toward more bedrooms than Victoria's. Of all homes here, 72% have four or more bedrooms, above 33% across VIC. Three-bedroom homes come to 24%, below the state's 42%, and homes with two bedrooms or fewer to 3%, below 25% statewide.
None of the occupied homes in Lyndhurst are flats or apartments, while 12% are across Victoria. Separate houses account for 96% of occupied homes, above 73% across VIC, and townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses for 5%, below the state's 14%. On Census night, 3% of private dwellings in Lyndhurst were unoccupied, below 11% across Victoria.
Mortgages above Victoria, outright ownership below
Paying off a home is what Lyndhurst's ownership figures turn on. Of its households, 67% are paying off a mortgage, above 36% across VIC, and the median repayment is $2,167 a month, above the state's $1,859. Outright owners, by contrast, make up 11% of households, below 32% across Victoria.
Renting is below the state, at 20% of households against 29% across VIC. Of those renting households, 87% rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, above the Victorian figure of 73%.
The median rent is $430 a week, above $370 across VIC, and the median household income is $2,446 a week, above the state's $1,759. Worked out on this page from those two medians, the median weekly rent equals 18% of the median weekly income of all Lyndhurst households, renters or not, below the Victorian share of 21%.
Full households and a younger median age
An average Lyndhurst household holds 3.5 people, above 2.5 across Victoria. The suburb of Lyndhurst had 8,926 residents at the 2021 Census, with a median age of 33 years, below the state's 38. The age figure suggests a younger population than the state's, and the household figure larger households on average than across Victoria.
One 2021 question asked people where they had lived in 2016. In Lyndhurst, 49% of people aged five and over gave the same address, below 54% across VIC. The figure suggests a smaller share of people aged five and over at the same address in 2021 as in 2016 than across the state.