Cobram real estate

Separate houses account for 91% of occupied homes in the town of Cobram, above the 73% across VIC. Townhouses, terraces and semi-detached houses make up 8%, below the 14% across VIC, and flats or apartments fewer than 1%. The figures suggest few people in Cobram living in apartment buildings at the 2021 Census.

Three bedrooms is more common here, at 51% of homes against 42% across VIC. Four or more bedrooms, at 25%, is below the 33% across VIC, and two bedrooms or fewer, at 21%, is below the 25% across VIC. On Census night, 11% of private dwellings in Cobram were unoccupied, the same as across VIC.

The median household income in Cobram was $1,039 a week, below the $1,759 across VIC. Housing figures sit below the state too: the median mortgage repayment was $1,224 a month (against $1,859 across VIC), and the median rent $250 a week (against $370). Worked out on this page, that rent equals 24% of the median weekly income of all households, renters or not, above the 21% across VIC.

Owning outright is more common than across VIC, at 40% of households against 32%, while paying off a mortgage, at 26%, is below the 36% across VIC. Renting, at 30%, is above the 29% across VIC. Of renting households, 54% rented from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, below the 73% across VIC.

The median age in the town of Cobram was 47 years, above the 38 across VIC, which suggests older residents than the state as a whole. An average household held 2.2 people, below the 2.5 across VIC. At the 2021 Census, 5,389 people lived in the town of Cobram.

Asked in 2021 where they lived in 2016, 53% of people aged five and over in Cobram gave the same address as five years earlier, below the 54% across VIC. On this single question about where each person lived, the town sits below the state.