Flats, apartments and homes with two bedrooms or fewer
Flats or apartments make up 74% of occupied homes in Mascot, above the 22% across NSW. Separate houses are 21%, below 66% statewide, and townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses are 4%, below 12%. Living in an apartment building, by these figures, is a larger part of daily life in Mascot than in New South Wales as a whole.
Bedroom counts run low. In Mascot, 64% of homes have two bedrooms or fewer, above 30% across NSW. Three bedrooms describes 26%, below 35%, and four or more bedrooms 9%, below the state's 34%. On Census night 11% of private dwellings were unoccupied, above the 9% across NSW. By these shares, homes with two bedrooms or fewer are more common here than across the state.
Renting in Mascot, and the agents behind it
In Mascot, 57% of households rent, above 33% across NSW. Among those renting households, 85% rent from a landlord recorded as a real estate agent, above the state's 69%. Median rent is $600 a week, above $420 statewide, and worked out on this page from the rent and income medians, rent equals 27% of the median income of all households, above 23% for NSW.
Ownership is less common here. Outright owners are 16% of households, below 32% across NSW, and 24% are paying off a mortgage, below 33%. For those with a mortgage, the median repayment is $2,600 a month, above the state's $2,167. Median household income in Mascot is $2,254 a week, above the NSW figure of $1,829.
A younger suburb, with fewer at one address
Of people aged five and over in Mascot, 31% lived at the same address five years earlier, below 54% across NSW. That share comes from one 2021 question about where each person lived in 2016.
The suburb of Mascot was home to 21,591 people at the 2021 Census. Its median age of 30 years is below the 39 across NSW, pointing to a younger population. An average household holds 2.5 people, below the state's 2.6, which suggests fewer people under each roof than across the state.