Flats and attached homes beside the houses
Flats or apartments account for 39% of occupied homes, above 22% across New South Wales, and separate houses for 39% too, below the state's 66%. Townhouses, terraces and semi-detached houses add 22%, above the state's 12%.
Bedrooms are fewer than the state pattern. 48% of homes have two bedrooms or fewer, above 30% statewide, while 32% have three, below 35%, and 19% have four or more, below the state's 34%. On Census night, 9% of private dwellings were unoccupied, the same as the 9% across New South Wales.
Renting, lower costs and incomes
Renting stands out here: 47% of households rent, above 33% across New South Wales. Of those renting households, 68% rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, below the state's 69%. The median rent is $330 a week, below $420 across the state. The figures suggest renting is a more common way of living in Cabramatta than across the state.
Incomes are lower too. Median household income was $1,184 a week at the 2021 Census, below the state's $1,829. Set against it, the median weekly rent works out on this page to 28% of the median weekly income of all households, renters or not, above the 23% the same comparison gives across New South Wales.
A home loan is less common: 20% of households are paying off a mortgage, below 33% statewide, and the median repayment is $1,500 a month against $2,167 across the state. Outright owners make up 28% of households, below the state's 32%. Where there is a loan, the figures suggest a lower monthly repayment in the middle of the range than across New South Wales.
Fuller households
At the 2021 Census, 21,142 people lived in the suburb of Cabramatta. An average household here holds 3 people, above 2.6 across New South Wales, which suggests homes shared by more people than the state's typical household.
Among people aged five and over in Cabramatta, 60% lived at the same address five years earlier, above 54% statewide. That figure comes from one 2021 question about where each person lived in 2016. The median age is 40 years, above the state's 39, which suggests an older population than across New South Wales.