Houses, bedrooms and 16% unoccupied
On Census night 16% of private dwellings in Aldinga Beach were unoccupied, above the South Australian figure of 11%. Among the homes that were occupied, separate houses made up 91%, above 78% across the state. Townhouses, terraces and semi-detached houses came to 8%, below the state's 15%, and flats or apartments to fewer than 1%, below 7% statewide. Homes with three bedrooms make up 52% here, above 51% across South Australia. A further 35% have four or more bedrooms, above the state's 26%, while 12% have two bedrooms or fewer, below 22% statewide.
Where Aldinga Beach households stand on owning and renting
Households paying off a mortgage come to 42% in Aldinga Beach, above 36% across South Australia, while 26% own their home outright, below the state's 33%. Renting households make up 28%, the same as South Australia. Among renting households, 69% rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, above 51% across the state.
The median mortgage repayment is $1,408 a month, below $1,500 across South Australia. Median rent is $320 a week, above the state's $300, and median household income is $1,297 a week, below $1,455 statewide. The median weekly rent equals 25% of the median weekly income of all households, renters or not, worked out on this page from those two medians, above 21% across the state.
The people of Aldinga Beach
The median age in Aldinga Beach is 39 years, below 41 across South Australia. At the 2021 Census 10,667 people lived in the suburb of Aldinga Beach, and an average household held 2.5 people, above the state figure of 2.4. Of people aged five and over in Aldinga Beach, 57% lived at the same address five years earlier, below 58% across South Australia. The figure comes from one 2021 question about where each person lived in 2016.