Separate houses, many with four bedrooms or more
Bonville is a place of separate houses. They account for 92% of occupied homes, above the 66% across NSW, while townhouses, terraces and semi-detached houses come to 1%, against 12% across NSW. With flats or apartments under 1%, these figures suggest households at the 2021 Census lived in freestanding houses more often than across NSW, and seldom in buildings shared with other homes.
Bedroom counts sit at the larger end. Homes with four or more bedrooms reach 59%, against 34% across NSW, while three bedrooms (29%, against 35%) and two or fewer (11%, against 30%) are both below the state. On Census night, 4% of private dwellings were unoccupied, below the 9% across NSW.
Owned outright more often than rented
Outright ownership stands out: 45% of Bonville households own their home with no mortgage, above the 32% across NSW. Another 39% are paying off a mortgage, against 33% across NSW, and renting is less common at 14%, against 33%. The median mortgage repayment was $2,000 a month, below the $2,167 across NSW.
Rent itself runs higher than across the state, with a median of $465 a week against $420. Median household income matched NSW, at $1,829 a week. Set side by side on this page, the median rent equals 25% of the median weekly income of all Bonville households, renters or not, against 23% across NSW. Of renting households, 52% rented from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, below the 69% across NSW.
An older median and fuller households
The median age in Bonville was 44 years at the 2021 Census, above the 39 across NSW, which suggests an older population than the state as a whole. Households are larger than across NSW too, with 2.8 people in an average household against 2.6 across the state, so homes here held more people on average at the 2021 Census.
At the 2021 Census, 2,939 people lived in the suburb of Bonville. Asked where they lived in 2016, 56% of people aged five and over gave the same address, above the 54% across NSW.