No flats or apartments among Kyneton's occupied homes
Kyneton has no flats or apartments among its occupied homes, below the 12% across VIC. Separate houses make up 88% of occupied homes, above the state figure of 73%, and townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses make up 9%, below the 14% statewide. On Census night, 10% of private dwellings in Kyneton were unoccupied, below the 11% across VIC. Of its homes, 46% have three bedrooms, above the VIC figure of 42%, and 19% have two bedrooms or fewer, below 25% statewide. Homes with four or more bedrooms are 33%, the same as the 33% across VIC.
Owning outright, mortgages and rent in Kyneton
In the suburb of Kyneton, 40% of households own their home outright, above the 32% across VIC, and 36% are paying off a mortgage, the same as the 36% statewide. The median mortgage repayment is $1,798 a month, below $1,859 across VIC. Median household income is $1,620 a week, below the VIC median of $1,759.
Of households in Kyneton, 21% rent, below the VIC figure of 29%, and 60% of renting households rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, below 73% across the state. Median rent is $360 a week, below $370 across VIC. Worked out on this page, that rent equals 22% of the median weekly income of all Kyneton households, renters or not, above the VIC figure of 21%.
Age, household size and the same address
At the 2021 Census, 7,513 people lived in the suburb of Kyneton. The median age is 47 years, above the VIC median of 38. There are 2.4 people in an average household in Kyneton, below the 2.5 statewide. Of people aged five and over in Kyneton, 57% lived at the same address five years earlier, above the VIC figure of 54%.