Dover Heights real estate

Four or more bedrooms describe 55% of homes in Dover Heights, above 34% across New South Wales, while 25% have three bedrooms, below the state's 35%, and 18% have two bedrooms or fewer, below 30% statewide. Separate houses make up 66% of occupied homes, the same as across New South Wales. Flats or apartments account for 23%, above the state's 22%, and townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses 11%, below 12% statewide. On Census night 8% of private dwellings were unoccupied, below the 9% recorded across the state.

In Dover Heights, 43% of households own their home outright, above 32% across New South Wales. A further 36% are paying off a mortgage, above the state's 33%, and the median mortgage repayment is $4,333 a month, above $2,167 statewide. Renting covers 19% of households, below 33% across the state.

The median rent is $798 a week, above the New South Wales median of $420. Of renting households, 79% rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, above 69% statewide. Set against the median weekly income of all households, renters or not, that rent works out on this page at 21%, below 23% across New South Wales.

At the 2021 Census, 63% of people aged five and over in Dover Heights lived at the same address five years earlier, above 54% across New South Wales. The suburb of Dover Heights was home to 4,044 people at the 2021 Census. An average household holds 3 people, above 2.6 across the state, and the median age is 41 years, above the New South Wales median of 39.