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Blackburn South Real Estate

Blackburn South real estate

Flats and apartments made up 8% of occupied homes in Blackburn South at the 2021 Census, below 12% across Victoria.

  • House 76
  • Townhouse or terrace 16
  • Flat or apartment 8
  • Owned outright 38
  • Mortgaged 35
  • Rented 24
  • Other or not stated 3
Homes in Blackburn South as a street of 100, from the census count of households by kind of home and tenure. Its shares of each kind of home round to 101% in all, so the street draws one townhouse or terrace fewer than its rounded share.
Median rent$410 a weekVIC $370
Median mortgage repayment$2,251 a monthVIC $1,859
Median household income$1,861 a weekVIC $1,759

Houses and townhouses in Blackburn South

Flats and apartments are 8% of occupied homes in Blackburn South, below the Victorian figure of 12%, which suggests a smaller share of people here live in apartment buildings than across Victoria. Separate houses account for 76%, above 73% across VIC, and townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses for 17%, above the state's 14%.

Three bedrooms describe 46% of homes, above 42% across VIC. Homes with four or more bedrooms make up 34%, above 33%, and those with two bedrooms or fewer 19%, below 25%. On Census night, 8% of private dwellings in Blackburn South were unoccupied, below the 11% across Victoria.

Victoria, the same way: 73 houses, 12 flats, 29 rented.

Owning outright, and renting through agents

Outright ownership is above the state level in Blackburn South: 38% of households, against 32% across VIC. Another 35% are paying off a mortgage, below 36% across Victoria, with a median repayment of $2,251 a month, above the state's $1,859. Median household income is $1,861 a week, above $1,759 for VIC.

Renting households are 24% of the total, below 29% across Victoria, and median rent is $410 a week, above $370. Of those households, 56% rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, below the VIC figure of 73%. Worked out on this page from the two medians, the median weekly rent equals 22% of the median weekly income of all households, renters or not, above 21% across VIC.

Same address, five years on

For people aged five and over, one 2021 question asked where they had lived in 2016. In Blackburn South, 65% were at the same address, above 54% across Victoria, which suggests a larger share of people aged five and over here lived at the same address five years earlier than across the state.

The suburb of Blackburn South had 10,939 people at the 2021 Census. Its median age of 42 years, above 38 across VIC, suggests older residents than Victoria's. An average household in Blackburn South holds 2.6 people, above 2.5 across the state.