Separate houses set the tone in Bardwell Park
Separate houses account for 86% of occupied homes in Bardwell Park, above the 66% across NSW. Flats or apartments are 5%, against 22% statewide, and townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses are 6%, below the state's 12%.
Three bedrooms is the size for 46% of homes, above 35% across NSW. Homes with two bedrooms or fewer make up 19%, below the 30% statewide, while four or more bedrooms sits at 35%, above the state's 34%. On Census night, 6% of private dwellings in Bardwell Park were unoccupied, below 9% for NSW.
Owners outright, and a smaller renting share
In Bardwell Park, 43% of households own their home outright, above 32% across NSW, and 37% are paying off a mortgage, above 33%. Renting is less common: 19% of households rent, below the 33% statewide. Of those renting households, 78% rent from a landlord recorded as a real estate agent, above the NSW figure of 69%.
Median household income is $2,386 a week, above $1,829 across NSW. Median rent is $550 a week, above the state's $420, and the median mortgage repayment is $2,800 a month, above $2,167 statewide. Worked out on this page from the two medians, rent equals 23% of the median income of all households, the same as the 23% across NSW.
Same address as in 2016
Of people aged five and over in Bardwell Park, 71% lived at the same address five years earlier, above 54% across NSW. That comes from one 2021 question about where each person lived in 2016. Measured that way, a larger share of people aged five and over were at the same address here than across the state.
The suburb of Bardwell Park had 2,320 people at the 2021 Census. Its median age is 42 years, above the 39 across NSW, and an average household holds 2.8 people, above the state's 2.6. The age figure suggests an older population than the state's, and the household figure suggests more people under each roof.