Broadford real estate

Of the occupied homes in Broadford, 95% are separate houses, above the 73% across Victoria. Townhouses, terraces and semi-detached houses make up 4%, below the state's 14%. With flats and apartments at fewer than 1%, the figures suggest that a greater share of Broadford's homes stand on their own, without a shared wall, than across the state.

Three-bedroom homes account for 49% of homes in Broadford, above the 42% across Victoria, and homes with four or more bedrooms for 37%, above the state's 33%. Homes with two bedrooms or fewer come to 13%, below the 25% across Victoria. Of the private dwellings in Broadford, 7% were unoccupied on Census night, below the state's 11%.

The median mortgage repayment in Broadford is $1,507 a month, below the $1,859 across Victoria, while 46% of households are paying off a mortgage, above the state's 36%. Outright owners make up 32% of households, the same as across Victoria, and 19% of households rent, below the 29% for the state. Median household income in Broadford is $1,519 a week, below the $1,759 across Victoria.

Median rent is $314 a week in Broadford, below the $370 across Victoria. When this page divides that median rent by the median weekly income of all Broadford households, renters or not, the result is 21%, the same as for Victoria. That is a comparison of two medians, not a record of what renters pay. Of renting households in Broadford, 66% rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, below the state's 73%.

The suburb of Broadford was home to 4,592 people at the 2021 Census. Their median age was 40 years, above the 38 across Victoria, which suggests a population older than the state's as a whole. An average Broadford household holds 2.5 people, the same as the average household across Victoria, so on household size the suburb and the state sit level. When the 2021 Census asked people aged five and over where they lived in 2016, 57% of those in Broadford gave the same address, above the 54% across Victoria.