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Real Estate Wagga Wagga

Wagga Wagga real estate

5% of occupied homes in the town of Wagga Wagga are townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses, against 12% across NSW.

  • House 83
  • Townhouse or terrace 5
  • Flat or apartment 11
  • Other or not stated 1
  • Owned outright 30
  • Mortgaged 32
  • Rented 35
  • Other or not stated 3
Homes in Wagga Wagga as a street of 100, from the census count of households by kind of home and tenure. Other or not stated also takes up the rounding.
Median rent$290 a weekNSW $420
Median mortgage repayment$1,500 a monthNSW $2,167
Median household income$1,502 a weekNSW $1,829

Separate houses, and few homes that share a wall

Separate houses make up 83% of occupied homes in Wagga Wagga, above the 66% across NSW. The in-between kinds of home are scarce by comparison: townhouses, terraces and semi-detached houses account for 5%, below 12% across NSW, and flats or apartments for 11%, below 22% across NSW.

Bedroom counts lean larger too. Homes with three bedrooms are 41% of the total, above 35% across NSW, and those with four or more bedrooms are 37%, above 34%. Homes with two bedrooms or fewer come to 21%, below 30% across NSW. At the 2021 Census, 8% of private dwellings in Wagga Wagga were unoccupied on Census night, below the 9% across NSW.

New South Wales, the same way: 66 houses, 22 flats, 33 rented. Other or not stated also takes up the rounding.

Lower rents and repayments than the state

The median rent in Wagga Wagga is $290 a week, below $420 across NSW, and the median mortgage repayment is $1,500 a month, below $2,167 across NSW. Median household income is lower as well, at $1,502 a week against $1,829 across NSW. Worked out on this page from those two medians, the median weekly rent equals 19% of the median weekly income of all households, renters or not, below 23% across NSW.

Renting is more common here than in the state: 35% of households rent, above 33% across NSW. Of those renting households, 66% rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, below 69% across NSW. Meanwhile 30% of households own their home outright, below 32%, and 32% are paying off a mortgage, below 33% across NSW.

A younger town in smaller households

At the 2021 Census, 49,686 people lived in the town of Wagga Wagga. The median age is 37 years, below 39 across NSW, which suggests a younger population than the state. Households are smaller on average, with 2.4 people in an average household against 2.6 across NSW.

A 2021 question asked people aged five and over where they lived in 2016. In Wagga Wagga, 52% were at the same address five years earlier, below 54% across NSW.