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Golden Bay Real Estate

Golden Bay real estate

None of the occupied homes in Golden Bay were flats or apartments at the 2021 Census, against 6% across Western Australia. Separate houses made up 97% of the suburb's occupied homes.

  • House 97
  • Townhouse or terrace 2
  • Flat or apartment 0
  • Other or not stated 1
  • Owned outright 15
  • Mortgaged 59
  • Rented 25
  • Other or not stated 1
Homes in Golden Bay 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$350 a weekWA $340
Median mortgage repayment$1,777 a monthWA $1,842
Median household income$1,891 a weekWA $1,815

Bedroom counts and home types in Golden Bay

Separate houses account for 97% of occupied homes in Golden Bay, compared with 80% across Western Australia. Townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses make up 2%, below 13% for the state, and no occupied home is a flat or apartment. These figures suggest that homes in Golden Bay stand on their own, rather than in attached rows or apartment buildings.

Homes with four or more bedrooms make up 56% in Golden Bay, above the state's 45%, and three-bedroom homes 39%, above 37% for Western Australia. Homes with two bedrooms or fewer are at 5%, against 17% across the state. On Census night, 9% of private dwellings in Golden Bay were unoccupied, below the state's 11%.

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

Golden Bay's mortgages and the rent median

Paying off a mortgage applied to 59% of households in Golden Bay at the 2021 Census, above 40% across Western Australia. The median repayment is $1,777 a month, below the state's $1,842, which places Golden Bay above the state on the share with a mortgage and below it on the repayment. Outright ownership is at 15%, against 29% for the state.

Renting households make up 25% in Golden Bay, against 27% across Western Australia, and the median rent is $350 a week, above the state's $340. Of those renting households, 65% rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, above the state's 55%. The others rent from state housing, community housing, a private person or another landlord.

The median household income in Golden Bay is $1,891 a week, above $1,815 across the state. This page sets the median rent against that median income and arrives at 19%, the same as across Western Australia. The ratio compares two medians across all households, renters or not, and is not what renters themselves pay.

Golden Bay by age, household and address

The suburb of Golden Bay had 5,681 people at the 2021 Census, with a median age of 30 years against 38 across Western Australia. An average household holds 2.8 people, above the state's 2.5. Read side by side, the two figures point to a younger population than the state's, in homes shared by more people on average.

One 2021 question asked people aged five and over where they lived in 2016, and 44% of Golden Bay's residents in that group gave the same address, against 54% across Western Australia. The figure suggests that people in Golden Bay had moved address within those five years more often than people across the state.