St Ives real estate

Homes with four or more bedrooms make up 54% here, above 34% across NSW. Three-bedroom homes come to 25%, below the state's 35%, and homes with two bedrooms or fewer to 21%, below 30%. The figures suggest larger homes are a bigger part of the suburb's housing than they are across the state.

Separate houses account for 66% of occupied homes in St Ives, the same as the 66% across NSW. Flats and apartments are 26%, above 22% statewide, while townhouses, terraces and semi-detached houses are 8%, below 12%. On Census night in 2021, 6% of private dwellings in St Ives were unoccupied, below the 9% across NSW.

Rent here has a median of $688 a week, above $420 across NSW, and the median mortgage repayment is $3,467 a month against $2,167. Median household income is $2,888 a week, above $1,829 statewide. Worked out on this page from the two medians, rent equals 24% of the median weekly household income, above the 23% found across NSW.

A smaller share of households rent in St Ives than across the state: 17%, below 33% across NSW. Of those that do, 84% rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, above 69% statewide. Ownership runs the other way, with 42% of households owning their home outright, above 32% across NSW, and 40% paying off a mortgage, above 33%.

In 2021, 59% of people aged five and over in St Ives lived at the same address five years earlier, a share drawn from one Census question about where each person lived in 2016. Across NSW it is 54%, so St Ives sits above the state, which suggests a larger share of people aged five and over here at the same address in 2021 as in 2016 than across NSW.

The 2021 Census counted 18,384 people in the suburb of St Ives. An average household holds 2.9 people, above 2.6 across NSW, suggesting more people share each home than across the state. The median age of 43 years is above 39 across NSW, which points to residents who are older at the midpoint than those across the state.