Mudgee's share of separate houses
Separate houses make up 85% of occupied homes in Mudgee, above the 66% across New South Wales, and townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses make up 13%, above the state's 12%. Flats or apartments sit at 1%, against 22%. On those shares, apartment living appears rarer in Mudgee than across the state.
Three-bedroom homes are 43% of Mudgee's homes, above the 35% across New South Wales, and homes with four or more bedrooms are 39%, above 34%. Homes with two bedrooms or fewer are 16%, below 30% across the state. On Census night, 13% of private dwellings in Mudgee were unoccupied, above the 9% across New South Wales.
Rent at $360, repayments at $1,733
Median rent in Mudgee is $360 a week, below the $420 across New South Wales, and median household income is $1,678 a week, below $1,829. Measured on this page as one median against the other, the median rent equals 21% of the median weekly income of all households in Mudgee, renters or not, below the 23% across the state. That is page arithmetic, not a record of what renters pay.
Renters are 35% of households in Mudgee, above 33% across New South Wales, and 69% of renting households rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, the same as the 69% across the state. The others rent from state housing, community housing, a private person or another landlord.
Of Mudgee households, 32% are paying off a mortgage, against 33% across New South Wales, and 30% own their home outright, against 32%. The median mortgage repayment is $1,733 a month, below the $2,167 across the state. Both ownership shares sit below the state's, while the renting share sits above it.
Population and age
A population of 11,457 people lived in the suburb of Mudgee at the 2021 Census, with a median age of 36 years, below the 39 across New South Wales. That suggests younger residents than across the state. Average household size in Mudgee is 2.4 people, below the 2.6 across New South Wales. Both of these figures sit below the state's.
At 46%, the share of people aged five and over in Mudgee who lived at the same address five years earlier is below the 54% across New South Wales. The share rests on one 2021 question about where each person lived in 2016.