Lennox Head real estate

Attached homes are more common in Lennox Head than across NSW, and flats less so. Townhouses, terraces and semi-detached houses were 22% of occupied homes, above the 12% across NSW, while flats or apartments were 5%, against 22% across the state. Separate houses came to 72%, above the 66% across NSW.

Homes with two bedrooms or fewer were 13% in the town, below the 30% across NSW. Three bedrooms accounted for 41% (35% across NSW) and four or more for 45% (34% across NSW), both above the state. On Census night, 10% of private dwellings in the town were unoccupied, above the 9% across NSW.

Rent stands out in Lennox Head. The median was $580 a week, above the $420 across NSW. The median household income was $2,135 a week, also above the $1,829 across NSW. Worked out on this page from those two medians, the rent equals 27% of the median weekly income of all households, renters or not, against 23% across NSW.

Renting was less common than across the state: 24% of households, against 33%. Of those, 66% rented from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, below the 69% across NSW. Ownership ran above the state on both counts, with 38% of households owning outright (32% across NSW) and 37% paying off a mortgage (33% across NSW). The median mortgage repayment was $2,236 a month, above the $2,167 across NSW.

Of people aged five and over in Lennox Head, 50% lived at the same address five years earlier, below the 54% across NSW. That figure comes from one 2021 question about where each person lived in 2016.

At the 2021 Census, 7,483 people lived in the town of Lennox Head. The median age was 41 years, above the 39 across NSW, which suggests an older population than the state as a whole. Average households held 2.7 people, against 2.6 across NSW, so households in the town ran larger than across NSW.