Bella Vista real estate

Bedroom counts in Bella Vista sit at the large end. 85% of homes have four or more bedrooms, above the 34% across NSW, while 12% have three bedrooms (35% across NSW) and 2% have two bedrooms or fewer (30% across NSW). Both smaller sizes are below the state. The figures suggest a larger share of homes with four or more bedrooms in Bella Vista than across the state.

Flats and apartments make up 1% of occupied homes in Bella Vista, below the 22% across NSW. Separate houses account for 82% of occupied homes (66% across NSW), and townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses for 16%, above the NSW figure of 12%. On Census night, 7% of private dwellings in the suburb were unoccupied, below the 9% across NSW. A lower unoccupied share suggests a smaller share of dwellings stood empty here than across the state when the count was taken.

Paying off a home is common in Bella Vista. 49% of households are paying off a mortgage, above the 33% across NSW, and the median mortgage repayment is $3,400 a month, against $2,167 across NSW. Another 36% of households own their home outright, above the state figure of 32%. Median household income is $3,518 a week, above the $1,829 across NSW.

A smaller share of households rent here than across the state: 13%, below the 33% across NSW. Median rent is $740 a week, above the $420 across NSW. Of the households that rent, 87% rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, above the 69% across NSW. Worked out on this page from the two medians, Bella Vista's median weekly rent equals 21% of the median weekly income of all its households, below the 23% across NSW. It is not what any renter pays.

8,384 people lived in the suburb of Bella Vista at the 2021 Census. Households here are larger than across the state: the average household holds 3.4 people, above the 2.6 across NSW. The median age is 40 years, above the NSW median of 39, so residents at the middle of the age range are older here than across the state, and more people share each home.

Asked where they lived in 2016, 63% of people aged five and over in Bella Vista gave the same address they lived at in 2021, above the 54% across NSW. The figures suggest a larger share of people aged five and over in the suburb at the same address in 2021 as in 2016 than across the state.