Separate houses, and fewer than 1% flats
With fewer than 1% of occupied homes in Endeavour Hills being flats or apartments, below the 12% across Victoria, separate houses carry the housing here. They make up 88% of occupied homes, above the 73% across the state. Townhouses, terraces and semi-detached houses account for 12%, below the state's 14%. The figures suggest apartment buildings play a small part in how people in Endeavour Hills live.
Homes with two bedrooms or fewer are 5% of homes in Endeavour Hills, below 25% across Victoria. Three-bedroom homes are 50%, above 42% statewide, and 44% have four or more bedrooms, above the state's 33%. Read together, these bedroom figures suggest housing in Endeavour Hills leans towards larger homes rather than compact ones.
At the 2021 Census, 4% of private dwellings in Endeavour Hills were unoccupied on Census night, below the 11% across Victoria. On that count, a smaller share of the suburb's dwellings stood empty than across the state, and a larger share were occupied on Census night. The figure counts dwellings, not people, and gives no reason why any stood empty.
Mortgages and outright owners ahead of renters
Renting is less common in Endeavour Hills than across the state: 19% of households rent, below 29% across Victoria. Paying off a mortgage is more common here, at 42% of households compared with 36% statewide, and 37% own their home outright, above the state's 32%. Set against Victoria, each of the two kinds of ownership is more common here, and renting less so.
Among the households that do rent, 66% rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, below the 73% across Victoria. The others rent from state or community housing, a private person or another landlord, or did not say whom. On this figure, renting through an agent is less common here than across the state.
Median rent is $375 a week, above $370 across Victoria, while median household income is $1,740 a week, below the state's $1,759. The median mortgage repayment is $1,848 a month, below $1,859 statewide. Worked out on this page, the median weekly rent equals 22% of the median weekly income of all households, renters or not, above the 21% across Victoria.
Same address as in 2016, in fuller households
Of people aged five and over, 68% lived at the same address five years earlier, above 54% across Victoria. The suburb of Endeavour Hills was home to 24,455 people at the 2021 Census.
Households are larger than the state's, with 2.9 people in an average household against 2.5 across Victoria, so homes here are shared by more people on average. The median age is 39 years, above the 38 across the state, which suggests residents who are older, at the median, than across Victoria as a whole.