Apartments and terraces in place of the separate house
Alexandria counts 65% of its occupied homes as flats or apartments, above 22% across NSW, and 29% as townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses, above the state's 12%. Separate houses are 5%, below 66% statewide. The figures suggest that apartment buildings and attached homes are central to how people in Alexandria live.
Small homes stand out in the bedroom count. Homes with two bedrooms or fewer are 73%, above 30% across NSW. Three-bedroom homes are 20% (35% statewide) and homes with four or more bedrooms are 7% (34% statewide). On Census night, 10% of private dwellings in Alexandria were unoccupied, above the NSW figure of 9%.
A renting suburb with few outright owners
Renting describes 52% of households in Alexandria, above 33% across NSW, and 82% of those renting households rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, above 69% statewide. The others rent from state housing, community housing, a private person or another landlord, or did not say whom. The median rent is $560 a week, above the state's $420.
Median household income is $2,654 a week, above $1,829 across NSW. Worked out on this page from those two medians, the median weekly rent equals 21% of the median weekly income of all Alexandria households, renters or not. For NSW the same working gives 23%, so on this comparison Alexandria comes in below the state.
Paying off a mortgage applies to 34% of households in Alexandria, above 33% across NSW. The median repayment is $2,751 a month, above the NSW median of $2,167, a figure for the households with a mortgage rather than for every household in Alexandria. Outright ownership is less common: 12% of households own their home outright, below 32% across NSW.
Younger, in smaller households, and fewer at one address
Among people aged five and over in Alexandria, 31% lived at the same address five years earlier, below 54% across NSW. This is one 2021 question about where each person lived in 2016.
The suburb of Alexandria was home to 9,649 people at the 2021 Census. The median age was 34 years, below 39 across NSW, which suggests a younger population. An average household held 2 people, below the state's 2.6, which suggests homes shared by fewer people than across NSW.