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Castle Hill Real Estate

Castle Hill real estate

In Castle Hill, 60% of homes have four or more bedrooms, against 34% across NSW. The other figures from the 2021 Census fill in the picture around that one.

  • House 74
  • Townhouse or terrace 11
  • Flat or apartment 15
  • Owned outright 35
  • Mortgaged 37
  • Rented 23
  • Other or not stated 5
Homes in Castle Hill as a street of 100, from the census count of households by kind of home and tenure.
Median rent$560 a weekNSW $420
Median mortgage repayment$3,000 a monthNSW $2,167
Median household income$2,551 a weekNSW $1,829

Big homes, and few small ones, in Castle Hill

60% of its homes have four or more bedrooms, above the 34% across NSW, while 17% have two bedrooms or fewer, below the 30% for the state. Three-bedroom homes sit at 23%, below the NSW figure of 35%. Taken together, these figures suggest a housing stock that leans toward larger homes rather than compact ones.

Separate houses make up 74% of occupied homes in Castle Hill, above the 66% across NSW. Flats or apartments account for 15%, below the state's 22%, and townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses for 11%, below 12% across NSW. At the 2021 Census, 6% of private dwellings were unoccupied on Census night, below the 9% recorded across the state.

New South Wales, the same way: 66 houses, 22 flats, 33 rented. Other or not stated also takes up the rounding.

Incomes, rent and repayments in Castle Hill

Household income here runs above the state. The median is $2,551 a week in Castle Hill, compared with $1,829 across NSW. The median mortgage repayment is also above, at $3,000 a month against $2,167 for the state, and the median rent of $560 a week sits above the NSW figure of $420. Worked out on this page from the two medians, that rent equals 22% of the median weekly household income, below 23% across NSW.

A smaller share of households rent in Castle Hill: 23%, against 33% across NSW. Of those renting households, 80% rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, above 69% for the state. Paying off a mortgage is the position of 37% of households, above the NSW share of 33%, and 35% own their home outright, above 32% across the state.

Older residents and larger households

The suburb of Castle Hill was home to 40,874 people at the 2021 Census. Of people aged five and over, 61% lived at the same address five years earlier, above 54% across NSW. That figure comes from one 2021 question about where each person lived in 2016, and it suggests a larger share of people aged five and over in Castle Hill at the same address in 2021 as in 2016 than across the state.

Households are larger than the state average, with 3 people in an average Castle Hill household against 2.6 across NSW. The median age is 42 years, above the NSW median of 39, which suggests an older population than the state as a whole, though the figure says nothing about who those people are or how they live.