Mooroolbark real estate

Separate houses account for 95% of occupied homes in Mooroolbark, above 73% across VIC. Flats or apartments are fewer than 1%, below 12% statewide, and townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses are 4%, below the state's 14%. The figures suggest that home life in Mooroolbark centres on standalone houses rather than apartment buildings.

Bedroom numbers sit above the state's. Three-bedroom homes are 50%, above 42% across VIC, and homes with four or more bedrooms are 39%, above 33%. Two bedrooms or fewer describes 11%, below 25% statewide. On Census night, 4% of private dwellings in Mooroolbark were unoccupied, below the Victorian figure of 11%.

At the 2021 Census, 46% of households in Mooroolbark were paying off a mortgage, above 36% across VIC. The median repayment was $2,000 a month, above $1,859 statewide. Outright owners made up 32% of households, the same as Victoria, while 20% of households rented, below 29% across the state.

Of renting households, 76% rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, above 73% across VIC. Median rent is $400 a week, above the state's $370, and median household income is $1,994 a week, above $1,759. Taken together on this page, those two medians put the median weekly rent at 20% of the median weekly income of all Mooroolbark households, renters or not, below 21% across VIC.

Among people aged five and over in Mooroolbark, 62% lived at the same address five years earlier, above 54% across VIC. The suburb of Mooroolbark was home to 23,059 people at the 2021 Census. The average household held 2.8 people, above 2.5 across VIC, which suggests more people sharing each home. The median age was 37 years, below the state's 38, pointing to a younger population than Victoria's.