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Marrickville Real Estate

Marrickville real estate

Flats and apartments made up 47% of occupied homes in Marrickville at the 2021 Census, where the NSW share was 22%. Homes with two bedrooms or fewer were 57%, against 30% statewide.

  • House 32
  • Townhouse or terrace 19
  • Flat or apartment 47
  • Other or not stated 2
  • Owned outright 24
  • Mortgaged 28
  • Rented 47
  • Other or not stated 1
Homes in Marrickville 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$480 a weekNSW $420
Median mortgage repayment$2,600 a monthNSW $2,167
Median household income$2,170 a weekNSW $1,829

Apartments, terraces and two bedrooms or fewer

In Marrickville, 47% of occupied homes are flats or apartments, above the 22% across NSW. Townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses account for 19%, also above the state, which sits at 12%. Separate houses make up 32% of occupied homes here and 66% across NSW, so below the state. The share of flats suggests a larger share of people living in apartment buildings than across NSW.

Homes with two bedrooms or fewer are 57% of the total in Marrickville, against 30% across NSW. Homes with four or more bedrooms are 14%, below the 34% statewide, and 27% have three bedrooms, below the NSW figure of 35%. Unoccupied private dwellings, at 9% on Census night, were the same as 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.

Renting and repaying in Marrickville

Marrickville has 47% of its households renting, above the NSW figure of 33%. Of renting households, 75% rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, where the NSW share is 69%. The median rent is $480 a week, above the $420 a week across the state.

Owning outright describes 24% of households in Marrickville, below the 32% across NSW, and 28% are paying off a mortgage, below the state's 33%. The median mortgage repayment here is $2,600 a month, above the NSW median of $2,167 a month.

Median household income in Marrickville is $2,170 a week, above the $1,829 across NSW. The median weekly rent equals 22% of the median weekly income of all Marrickville households, renters or not, a share worked out on this page from the two medians. Across NSW the same measure is 23%, which places Marrickville below the state.

A median age of 37, and 2.3 to a household

The suburb of Marrickville was home to 26,570 people at the 2021 Census. Their median age was 37 years, below the NSW median of 39, which suggests younger residents than the state overall. An average Marrickville household holds 2.3 people, below 2.6 across NSW.

Of people aged five and over in Marrickville, 51% lived at the same address five years earlier, according to the 2021 question about where they lived in 2016. The NSW figure is 54%, so Marrickville is below the state here, which suggests a smaller share of people aged five and over lived at the same address five years earlier than across NSW.