Few flats, few empty dwellings
On Census night, 5% of private dwellings in the Knox council area were unoccupied, below 11% across VIC. Separate houses account for 83% of occupied homes, above 73% statewide, while townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses come to 14%, the same as 14% across VIC. With flats or apartments at 3%, the figures suggest few households here live in apartment buildings.
Bedroom figures lean towards the larger end. 40% of homes in the Knox council area have four or more bedrooms, above 33% across VIC, and 44% have three, above 42% across VIC. Homes with two bedrooms or fewer make up 15%, below 25% across VIC, which suggests homes with fewer bedrooms are less common here than across the state.
Mortgages, ownership and rent in Knox
Renting accounts for 21% of households in the Knox council area, below 29% across VIC. Of those renting households, 75% rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, above 73% across VIC; the others rent from state housing, community housing, a private person or another landlord, or did not say whom.
41% of households are paying off a mortgage, above 36% across VIC, with a median repayment of $2,000 a month, above $1,859 across VIC. Outright ownership sits at 34%, above 32% across VIC. Median household income is $1,884 a week, above $1,759 statewide, and median rent is $400 a week, above $370 across VIC.
Worked out on this page from those two medians, the rent equals 21% of the median weekly income of all households in the council area, renters or not, the same as 21% across VIC. The share is not a Census figure, and not what renters themselves pay, and on it Knox and the state match. Rent and income each sit above Victoria, and the share between them lands level with it.
At the same address as in 2016, in the Knox council area
Of people aged five and over in the Knox council area, 64% lived at the same address five years earlier, according to one 2021 question about where they lived in 2016. That is above 54% across VIC, suggesting a larger share of people aged five and over at the same address in 2021 as in 2016 than across VIC.
159,103 people lived in the Knox council area at the 2021 Census. An average household holds 2.7 people, above 2.5 across VIC, which suggests more people share each home than across the state. The median age is 40 years, above 38 across VIC, pointing to an older population than the state's.