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Glen Innes Real Estate

Glen Innes real estate

Flats and apartments are rare in the town of Glen Innes: at the 2021 Census they made up 3% of occupied homes, against 22% across NSW.

  • House 89
  • Townhouse or terrace 7
  • Flat or apartment 3
  • Other or not stated 1
  • Owned outright 40
  • Mortgaged 23
  • Rented 33
  • Other or not stated 4
Homes in Glen Innes 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$230 a weekNSW $420
Median mortgage repayment$975 a monthNSW $2,167
Median household income$857 a weekNSW $1,829

Separate houses and three-bedroom homes

Separate houses account for 89% of occupied homes in Glen Innes, above the NSW share of 66%. Flats and apartments come to 3%, below 22% statewide, and townhouses, terraces and semi-detached houses to 7%, below the state's 12%. The figures suggest a town where living in a freestanding house is more common than across NSW, and apartment buildings play a smaller part.

Three-bedroom homes run above the state here: 49% of homes in Glen Innes have three bedrooms, against 35% across NSW. Homes with four or more bedrooms make up 22%, below the state's 34%, and those with two bedrooms or fewer 26%, below 30% statewide. On Census night in 2021, 10% of private dwellings in the town were unoccupied, above the 9% recorded across NSW.

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

Lower costs, and a higher rent share

Housing costs in Glen Innes sit below the state. The median mortgage repayment is $975 a month, against $2,167 across NSW, and median rent is $230 a week, against $420. Median household income is also below, at $857 a week compared with $1,829 statewide. Worked out on this page from the two medians, rent equals 27% of the median weekly household income, above the 23% found across NSW.

Outright ownership is more common here: 40% of households in Glen Innes own their home outright, above 32% across NSW, while 23% are paying off a mortgage, below 33%. Renting is the same as the state, at 33% of households in both. Of renting households, 65% rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, below the 69% across NSW.

An older town with smaller households

The 2021 Census counted 5,184 people living in the town of Glen Innes. Their median age is 48 years, above 39 across NSW, which suggests an older population than the state as a whole. Households are smaller too, with an average of 2.1 people, below the NSW average of 2.6, pointing to fewer people under each roof.

One 2021 Census question asked where each person lived in 2016. In Glen Innes, 52% of people aged five and over lived at the same address five years earlier, below 54% across NSW. That suggests a smaller share of people in the town were living at the same address as five years earlier than across the state.