A suburb of houses with four bedrooms or more
Small homes are scarcer in Tarneit than across the state. 5% have two bedrooms or fewer, below 25% across Victoria, and 28% have three, below the state's 42%, while 65% have four or more. Separate houses make up 90% of occupied homes, above the 73% statewide.
Fewer than 1% of occupied homes are flats or apartments, below 12% across the state, and 10% are townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses, below 14%. On Census night, 6% of private dwellings were unoccupied, below the 11% recorded statewide.
Paying off, rather than owned outright
Outright ownership is uncommon in Tarneit: 10% of households own their home with no mortgage, below 32% across Victoria. Meanwhile 57% of households are paying off a mortgage, against 36% statewide, and the median repayment is $1,950 a month, above the state's $1,859. The figures suggest a home loan is a more usual part of household life here than across the state.
Renting sits level with the state, at 29% of households in both. Among renting households, 86% rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, above 73% across Victoria. The median rent is $380 a week, above $370, and median household income is $2,103 a week, above the state's $1,759.
Worked out on this page from those two medians, the median weekly rent equals 18% of the median weekly income of all households in Tarneit, renters or not. The same comparison gives 21% across Victoria, placing Tarneit below the state on this measure even though its median rent sits above Victoria's.
A younger population, and a smaller share at the same address
Of people aged five and over in Tarneit, 37% lived at the same address five years earlier, below 54% across Victoria. At the 2021 Census, 56,370 people lived in the suburb of Tarneit. The median age was 30 years, below 38 across Victoria, which suggests a younger population. An average household holds 3.4 people, above the state's 2.5, which suggests more people sharing each home than is usual across Victoria.