Bowral real estate

Separate houses make up 81% of occupied homes in Bowral, above the NSW figure of 66%. Townhouses, terraces and semi-detached houses account for 16%, above 12% across the state, while flats or apartments sit at 3%, below 22% statewide. That 3% suggests a smaller share of people in Bowral live in apartment buildings than across NSW.

In Bowral, 45% of homes have four or more bedrooms, above 34% across NSW, and 36% have three, above 35% statewide. Homes with two bedrooms or fewer come to 18%, below the NSW figure of 30%. On Census night, 10% of private dwellings in Bowral were unoccupied, above 9% across the state.

In Bowral, 51% of households own their home outright, above 32% across NSW. A further 25% are paying off a mortgage, below 33% statewide, and 19% rent, below the NSW figure of 33%. Among renting households, 68% rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, below 69% across the state.

The median rent in Bowral is $500 a week, above $420 across NSW, while the median household income is $1,535 a week, below $1,829 statewide. Worked out on this page from those two medians, rent equals 33% of the median weekly income of all households, renters or not, above 23% across NSW. The median mortgage repayment is $2,167 a month, the same as the NSW figure.

The median age in Bowral is 55 years, above 39 across NSW, which suggests an older population than the state as a whole. The suburb of Bowral was home to 10,764 people at the 2021 Census. An average household there holds 2.2 people, below the NSW average of 2.6.

Asked where they lived in 2016, 53% of people aged five and over in Bowral said they were at the same address five years earlier. Across NSW the share is 54%, so Bowral sits below the state on this measure.