St Kilda real estate

With 79% of occupied homes in flats or apartments, the figures for St Kilda suggest that apartment buildings are where people there commonly live. Separate houses make up 6%, below the 73% across VIC, and townhouses, terraces and semi-detached houses 11%, below the state's 14%. On Census night, 22% of private dwellings in St Kilda were unoccupied, above the 11% recorded across the state.

Bedroom counts run small. Some 85% of homes have two bedrooms or fewer, above 25% for VIC, while 10% have three bedrooms, below 42%, and 4% have four or more, below 33%. Taken with the flats figure, these counts suggest compact homes are the common shape here, and homes of three bedrooms or more uncommon ones.

Renting households make up 60% of households in St Kilda, above the 29% across VIC, and 77% of them rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, above the state's 73%. Ownership figures sit lower: 14% of households own their home outright, below 32%, and 23% are paying off a mortgage, below 36%.

Median rent was $381 a week at the 2021 Census, above $370 across VIC, and median household income $1,779 a week, above $1,759. Worked out on this page from those two medians, the rent equals 21% of the median weekly income of all households, renters or not, the same as the 21% for VIC. The median mortgage repayment was $2,000 a month, above the state's $1,859.

Households in St Kilda are small: an average of 1.7 people, below the 2.5 across VIC, which suggests fewer people sharing each home than across the state. The median age was 36 years, below the VIC median of 38, pointing to a younger population. At the 2021 Census, 19,490 people lived in the suburb of St Kilda.

Asked where they lived in 2016, 34% of people aged five and over in St Kilda gave the same address as at the 2021 Census. That is below the 54% across VIC. Read on its own, the figure suggests a smaller share of people aged five and over in St Kilda at the same address in 2021 as in 2016 than across the state.