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Ferndale Real Estate

Ferndale real estate

Flats or apartments made up fewer than 1% of occupied homes in Ferndale at the 2021 Census, below the 6% across WA.

  • House 82
  • Townhouse or terrace 17
  • Flat or apartment fewer than 1
  • Other or not stated 1
  • Owned outright 36
  • Mortgaged 40
  • Rented 22
  • Other or not stated 2
Homes in Ferndale 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$314 a weekWA $340
Median mortgage repayment$1,700 a monthWA $1,842
Median household income$1,533 a weekWA $1,815

Three bedrooms and attached houses in Ferndale

Three-bedroom homes account for 52% of homes in Ferndale, above the 37% across WA. Homes with four or more bedrooms make up 38%, below the state's 45%, and those with two bedrooms or fewer 10%, below 17%. The figures suggest a suburb where three bedrooms is the common size of home, more so than across Western Australia.

Townhouses, terraces and semi-detached houses come to 17% of occupied homes, above the 13% for WA, and separate houses to 82%, above 80%. With flats at fewer than 1%, apartment buildings appear to play a small part in how people in Ferndale live. On Census night, 8% of private dwellings were unoccupied, below the state's 11%.

Western Australia, the same way: 80 houses, 6 flats, 27 rented.

Outright owners and mortgages in Ferndale

Some 36% of households in Ferndale own their home outright, above the 29% across WA. Paying off a mortgage accounts for 40% of households, the same as the state, with a median repayment of $1,700 a month, below $1,842 for WA. Renting households come to 22%, below 27%, and 57% of them rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, above the state's 55%.

Median rent was $314 a week at the 2021 Census, below the $340 across WA, and median household income was $1,533 a week, below $1,815. Worked out on this page from those two medians, the rent equals 20% of the median weekly income of all Ferndale households, renters or not, above the 19% for the state.

At the same address as in 2016, in Ferndale

Of people aged five and over in Ferndale, 63% lived at the same address five years earlier, going by one 2021 question about where each person lived in 2016. That is above the 54% across WA, and it suggests a larger share of people aged five and over there at the same address in 2021 as in 2016 than across the state.

At the 2021 Census, 4,457 people lived in the suburb of Ferndale. The median age was 41 years, above the WA median of 38, which suggests an older population than the state as a whole. An average household held 2.4 people, below the 2.5 across WA, pointing to fewer people sharing each home.