Separate houses with four bedrooms or more
Apartment buildings play a smaller part here than across the state: 3% of occupied homes are flats or apartments, below 22% across NSW, and 4% are townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses, below 12%. Separate houses make up 93%, above the 66% statewide.
At the 2021 Census, 60% of homes in Frenchs Forest had four or more bedrooms, above 34% across NSW, and 6% had two bedrooms or fewer, below 30%. Three-bedroom homes come to 33%, below the state's 35%. On Census night, 3% of private dwellings in the suburb were unoccupied, below the 9% for NSW.
Higher rents and repayments in Frenchs Forest
Median rent in Frenchs Forest is $800 a week, above $420 across NSW. The median mortgage repayment is $3,467 a month, above the state's $2,167. Median household income is $3,109 a week, above $1,829. Worked out on this page from the rent and income medians, rent equals 26% of the median income of all households, above 23% statewide.
Paying off a mortgage describes 46% of households in Frenchs Forest, above 33% across NSW, and 37% own outright, above 32%. Renting is less common, at 16% of households, below the state's 33%. Of those renting households, 73% rent from a landlord recorded as a real estate agent, above 69% across NSW.
Same address as in 2016
Of people aged five and over in Frenchs Forest, 68% lived at the same address five years earlier, above 54% across NSW. One 2021 question, about where each person lived in 2016, produces that share.
The suburb of Frenchs Forest counted 14,267 people at the 2021 Census. An average household holds 3.2 people, above the 2.6 across NSW, suggesting more people under each roof. The median age is 40 years, above the state's 39, which points to an older population than the state's. Household size and median age both sit above the state's figures in Frenchs Forest.