Houses, townhouses and apartments in Malvern East
Townhouses, terraces and semi-detached houses make up 24% of occupied homes in Malvern East, against 14% across VIC, and flats and apartments 21%, against 12%. Separate houses are 53%, below the state's 73%.
Homes with two bedrooms or fewer are 35% in Malvern East, above 25% across VIC. Three bedrooms account for 32%, below the state's 42%, and four or more bedrooms for 32%, below 33%. On Census night, 14% of private dwellings in Malvern East were unoccupied, above 11% across VIC.
Repayments above the state, rent share below it
The median mortgage repayment in Malvern East is $2,944 a month, above $1,859 across VIC. Median household income is above the state, at $2,383 a week against $1,759. Median rent is $421 a week, above $370 across VIC. Worked out on this page from the two medians, the median weekly rent equals 18% of the median weekly income of all households, renters or not, below 21% across VIC.
Owning outright describes 36% of households in Malvern East, above 32% statewide, while 31% are paying off a mortgage, below 36% across VIC. Renting is 31% of households, above the state's 29%, and 81% of renting households rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, above 73% across VIC.
Five years at one address in Malvern East
Of people aged five and over in Malvern East, 56% lived at the same address five years earlier, above 54% across VIC. That figure rests on one 2021 question about where each person lived in 2016, and it suggests a larger share of people aged five and over here lived at the same address five years earlier than across the state.
At the 2021 Census, 22,296 people lived in the suburb of Malvern East. Its median age is 38 years, the same as across VIC, and an average household holds 2.5 people, the same as Victoria's 2.5.