Separate houses at 94%, flats at 1%
Separate houses make up 94% of occupied homes in Glenbrook, above 66% across NSW. Flats and apartments sit at 1%, below the state's 22%, and townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses at 5%, below 12% across NSW. The flat figure suggests a smaller share of people living in apartment buildings than across the state.
Homes with four or more bedrooms make up 59%, above 34% across NSW, while those with two bedrooms or fewer are 9%, below 30%. Three-bedroom homes come to 31%, below the NSW figure of 35%. On Census night, 5% of private dwellings in Glenbrook were unoccupied, below 9% across the state.
Owning outright, and a smaller share renting, in Glenbrook
In Glenbrook, 13% of households rent, below 33% across NSW. Owning outright sits at 47% of households, above the NSW figure of 32%. Another 39% of households are paying off a mortgage, above 33% across NSW, with a median repayment of $2,500 a month, above the state's $2,167.
Median household income is $2,502 a week, above $1,829 across NSW, and median rent is $490 a week, above $420. Worked out on this page from those two medians, rent comes to 20% of the median weekly income of all households, renters or not, below 23% across NSW. Of the households that rent, 72% do so from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, above 69% for the state.
Who lives in Glenbrook, and the same-address share
At the 2021 Census, 70% of people aged five and over in Glenbrook were living at the same address as five years earlier, above 54% across NSW. That figure comes from one question about where each person lived in 2016, and it suggests a larger share of people aged five and over lived at the same address five years earlier than across the state.
The suburb of Glenbrook was home to 5,078 people. Its median age of 44 years is above the NSW median of 39, which points to an older population than the state's. Households average 2.8 people, above 2.6 across NSW.