Balga real estate

In Balga, 29% of occupied homes are townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses, above the WA share of 13%, which suggests a larger share of people living in homes of those kinds than across the state. Separate houses account for 67%, below the 80% across WA, and flats or apartments for 3%, below the WA figure of 6%.

Three bedrooms describe 71% of homes in Balga, above the 37% across WA. Homes with four or more bedrooms are 10%, below the state's 45%, and those with two bedrooms or fewer are 16%, below the WA figure of 17%. On Census night, 10% of private dwellings in Balga were unoccupied, below the 11% recorded across Western Australia.

In Balga, 48% of households rent, above the 27% across WA. Of those renting households, 54% rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, below the state figure of 55%. The median rent is $310 a week, below the $340 a week across WA.

Owning outright describes 15% of households in Balga, below the WA share of 29%, and 33% are paying off a mortgage, below the state's 40%. The median mortgage repayment is $1,482 a month, below the Western Australian median of $1,842 a month.

Median household income in Balga is $1,299 a week, below the $1,815 across WA. Worked out on this page from the two medians, the median weekly rent equals 24% of the median weekly income of all Balga households, renters or not. Across WA the same measure is 19%, so Balga is above the state.

The median age in Balga is 32 years, below the WA median of 38, which suggests younger residents than across the state. The suburb of Balga had 13,864 people living in it at the 2021 Census, and an average household held 2.4 people, below the 2.5 across Western Australia.

Of people aged five and over in Balga, 45% lived at the same address five years earlier, below the 54% across WA. That suggests a smaller share of people aged five and over lived at the same address five years earlier than across the state.