Trentham real estate

In Trentham, 23% of private dwellings were unoccupied on Census night, above 11% across VIC. That figure belongs to a single night in 2021, and on its own it says nothing about why any dwelling in Trentham was unoccupied or how any of them are used at other times of the year.

Among occupied homes, none are flats or apartments, below 12% across VIC. Separate houses account for 96%, above the state's 73%, and townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses for 3%, below 14%. Three-bedroom homes come to 50%, above 42% for VIC; 23% have four or more bedrooms, below 33%, and 26% have two bedrooms or fewer, above 25%.

53% of households in Trentham own their home outright, above 32% across VIC. Renting households come to 11%, below the state's 29%, and 48% of them rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, below 73% for VIC. Paying off a mortgage applies to 31% of households, below 36% across Victoria.

The median mortgage repayment in Trentham is $1,733 a month, below $1,859 for VIC, and median household income is $1,489 a week, below $1,759. The median rent is $386 a week, above the state's $370. Worked out on this page from the two medians, that rent equals 26% of the median weekly income of all Trentham households, above 21% across VIC.

Trentham's median age is 56 years, above the Victorian median of 38, which suggests an older population than the state's. At the 2021 Census, 1,382 people lived in the suburb of Trentham. An average household there holds 2.2 people, below 2.5 across VIC, suggesting fewer people under each roof than across Victoria.

Of people aged five and over in Trentham, 51% lived at the same address five years earlier, below 54% across VIC. The figure comes from one 2021 question asking where each person lived in 2016. The figure suggests a smaller share of people aged five and over in Trentham at the same address in 2021 as in 2016 than across Victoria.