Four or more bedrooms, and few flats
Bedroom counts in Cherrybrook lean high. Beside the 72% of homes with four or more bedrooms, 22% have three bedrooms, below 35% across NSW, and 6% have two bedrooms or fewer, below the state's 30%. Taken together, these bedroom figures suggest homes in Cherrybrook tend to have more bedrooms than homes across the state.
Flats or apartments account for 1% of occupied homes, below 22% across NSW. Separate houses make up 81%, above the NSW figure of 66%, and townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses come to 17%, above 12% statewide. On Census night, 3% of private dwellings in Cherrybrook were unoccupied, below the 9% across NSW.
Higher incomes, higher rents and many mortgages
Median household income in Cherrybrook is $2,924 a week, above $1,829 across NSW, and the median rent is $695 a week, above $420 statewide. Placed side by side, that rent equals 24% of the median weekly income of all households in Cherrybrook, renters or not, above 23% across NSW. The share is worked out on this page from the two medians; it is not a Census figure and not what renters themselves pay.
Paying off a mortgage is the position of 43% of households, above the 33% across NSW, with a median repayment of $3,000 a month against $2,167 statewide. Another 39% own their home outright, above 32% across NSW. Renting is less common: 15% of households rent, below the state's 33%. Of those renting households, 82% rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, above 69% across NSW.
At the same address as in 2016, in Cherrybrook
In the 2021 Census question about where people lived in 2016, 66% of people aged five and over in Cherrybrook gave the same address. That is above 54% across NSW, and points to a larger share of people aged five and over in Cherrybrook at the same address in 2021 as in 2016 than across the state. The figure comes from one question asked in 2021, and on it Cherrybrook sits above the state.
The suburb of Cherrybrook counted 19,082 people. An average household holds 3.1 people, above 2.6 across NSW, which suggests more people under each roof than the state figure. The median age is 43 years, above 39 across NSW, suggesting an older population than the state as a whole, with households that are larger as well.