Where the attached house is common
In Dundas, 41% of occupied homes are townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses, against 12% across NSW. Separate houses come to 52%, below the state's 66%, and flats or apartments to 6%, below 22% for NSW. These figures suggest a larger share of homes that share a wall with a neighbour than across the state, and a smaller share in apartment buildings.
Homes with three bedrooms make up 40% of homes in Dundas, above 35% across NSW. Homes with four or more bedrooms are 35%, above the state's 34%, and those with two bedrooms or fewer are 24%, below 30% for NSW. On Census night, 6% of private dwellings in Dundas were unoccupied, below 9% across NSW.
Mortgages, rent and a mixed pattern of tenure
A smaller share of Dundas households own outright than across the state: 26%, against 32% for NSW. Those paying off a mortgage make up 37%, above 33% across NSW, and the median repayment is $2,500 a month, above the state's $2,167. Renters account for 35% of households, above 33% for NSW. The median household income is $1,962 a week, above $1,829 across the state.
The median rent in Dundas is $428 a week, above $420 across NSW. Worked out on this page from the two medians, that rent equals 22% of the median weekly income of all households in the suburb, renters or not, below 23% for the state. Of renting households, 66% rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, below 69% across NSW.
A younger median age and 2.8 people a household
The median age in Dundas is 37 years, below 39 across NSW, which suggests a younger population than the state's. Households average 2.8 people, above 2.6 for NSW, which suggests more people sharing each home than across the state. At the 2021 Census, 4,959 people lived in the suburb of Dundas.
Asked where they lived in 2016, 56% of people aged five and over in Dundas gave the same address as in 2021, above 54% across NSW. That one question suggests a larger share of people aged five and over at the same address in 2021 as in 2016 than across the state, in a suburb whose median age sits below it.