No flats, and three bedrooms above the state
None of the occupied homes in East Geelong are flats or apartments, against 12% across VIC. Separate houses account for 85% of occupied homes, above 73% statewide, and townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses for 14%, the same as Victoria. On Census night, 5% of private dwellings stood unoccupied, below the state's 11%.
Three-bedroom homes make up 51% in East Geelong, above 42% across VIC. Homes with two bedrooms or fewer come to 27%, above 25% statewide, while those with four or more bedrooms account for 21%, below 33% across Victoria.
Renting, owning and repayments in East Geelong
In East Geelong, 31% of households rent, above 29% across VIC, and 73% of those renting households rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, the same as Victoria. Another 35% of households are paying off a mortgage, below 36% statewide, and 33% own their home outright, above the state's 32%.
The median rent is $350 a week, below $370 across VIC, while the median household income is $1,782 a week, above $1,759. Worked out on this page from those two medians, the median weekly rent equals 20% of the median weekly income of all households, renters or not, below 21% across Victoria. The median mortgage repayment is $1,827 a month, below the state figure of $1,859.
The same address as in 2016, and household size
Answering one 2021 question about where they lived in 2016, 59% of people aged five and over in East Geelong said they were at the same address five years earlier. Across VIC the share is 54%, so East Geelong sits above the state, which suggests a larger share of people aged five and over here lived at the same address five years earlier than across Victoria.
The suburb of East Geelong was home to 4,012 people at the 2021 Census. An average household holds 2.3 people, below 2.5 across Victoria. The median age is 40 years, above the state's 38, which suggests older residents than across Victoria.