Midvale real estate

None of Midvale's occupied homes are flats or apartments, against 6% across WA. Townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses are 18% of occupied homes, above 13% for the state, and separate houses 82%, above WA's 80%. On Census night, 11% of private dwellings were unoccupied, the same as the 11% across WA.

In Midvale, 44% of homes have three bedrooms, against 37% across the state. Homes with four or more bedrooms are 35%, below 45% for WA, and those with two bedrooms or fewer are 18%, above the state's 17%.

Outright ownership in Midvale is below the state, at 16% of households against 29% across WA. Paying off a mortgage is above it: 50% of households are doing so, against 40% for the state, with a median repayment of $1,742 a month, below the WA median of $1,842. The median household income is $1,433 a week, below $1,815 across WA.

Renting households are 31% of the total, above 27% across WA. Of them, 40% rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, below 55% for the state; the others rent from state housing, community housing, a private person or another landlord, or did not say whom. The median rent is $275 a week, below WA's $340.

Worked out on this page from the two medians, the median weekly rent in Midvale equals 19% of the median weekly income of all its households, renters or not, the same as the 19% across WA.

Of people aged five and over in Midvale, 35% lived at the same address five years earlier, below 54% across WA. That suggests a smaller share of people aged five and over here lived at the same address five years earlier than across the state.

There were 2,283 people in the suburb of Midvale at the 2021 Census. The median age was 35 years, below 38 across WA, suggesting younger residents than the state's. An average household held 2.5 people, the same as the 2.5 across WA.