Thomastown real estate

In Thomastown, 63% of homes have three bedrooms, above 42% across Victoria. Homes with four or more bedrooms are 20%, below the state's 33%, and 15% have two bedrooms or fewer, below 25% across the state. The counts suggest a larger share of three-bedroom homes in Thomastown than across Victoria.

Separate houses were 84% of occupied homes at the 2021 Census, above 73% across Victoria. Townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses were 10%, below the state's 14%, and flats or apartments 6%, below 12% across Victoria. Of private dwellings in Thomastown, 7% were unoccupied on Census night, below 11% across the state.

Dividing the median weekly rent by the median weekly income of all Thomastown households, renters or not, gives 29%, against 21% across Victoria. This is a calculation made on this page from two medians, and not what renters themselves pay. Median rent was $350 a week, below the state's $370, and median household income was $1,225 a week, below $1,759 across Victoria.

Outright owners are 43% of households in Thomastown, above 32% across Victoria. Households paying off a mortgage are 25%, below the state's 36%, with a median repayment of $1,690 a month, below $1,859 across Victoria. Renting households are 29%, the same as across the state, and 71% of them rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, below 73% across Victoria; the rest rent from state or community housing, a private person or another landlord.

Of Thomastown residents aged five and over, 65% were living at the same address in 2016, above 54% across Victoria, according to a single question in the 2021 Census. The suburb of Thomastown had 20,234 people at the 2021 Census. The median age was 39 years, above 38 across Victoria, and an average household held 2.6 people, above the state's 2.5. Together these suggest residents older at the median, and households with more people in them, than across the state as a whole.