Greensborough real estate

Flats or apartments make up 2% of occupied homes in Greensborough, below 12% across VIC. Separate houses account for 85%, above the state's 73%, and townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses for 13%, below 14% for VIC. On Census night, 5% of private dwellings in Greensborough were unoccupied, below the 11% across Victoria.

The bedroom counts lean away from small homes. 15% of homes in Greensborough have two bedrooms or fewer, below 25% across VIC, while 48% have three bedrooms, above the state's 42%, and 36% have four or more, above 33%. Read as a set, the three counts suggest a housing stock that leans toward bigger homes than the state's.

Renting households are 17% of households in Greensborough, below 29% across VIC. On the other side of the ledger, 42% are paying off a mortgage, above the state's 36%, and 38% own their home outright, above 32%. The median mortgage repayment is $2,167 a month, above $1,859 across Victoria.

Median household income in Greensborough is $2,075 a week, above $1,759 for VIC, and the median rent is $404 a week, above $370. Worked out on this page from the two medians, that rent equals 19% of the median weekly income of all Greensborough households, below 21% across the state. Of renting households, 76% rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, above 73% for VIC.

Of people aged five and over in Greensborough, 68% lived at the same address five years earlier, above 54% across VIC. The figure answers one 2021 question about where each person lived in 2016. A share above the state suggests a larger share of people aged five and over in Greensborough at the same address in 2021 as in 2016 than across VIC.

The suburb of Greensborough had 21,070 people at the 2021 Census. The median age is 41 years, above the Victorian median of 38, and an average household holds 2.6 people, above 2.5 across VIC. Those two figures suggest an older population than the state's and households that are larger than the state average.