Rent or own? Tenure type in Australia
Ownership with a mortgage is the most common tenure type in Australia.
The 2021 Census reveals that ownership with a mortgage (35.0%), outright ownership (31.6%), and renting (31.2%) are the three main tenure types of all occupied private dwellings in Australia. These proportions stayed relatively unchanged from the 2016 Census.
Data Topic: Tenure Type
Data Type: Raw Data
Description: Tenure Type (TEND) describes whether a household rents or owns the dwelling in which they were enumerated on Census night, or whether the household occupies it under another arrangement. TEND is derived from the responses to a series of questions.
Reference: ABS (2022). Australian Bureau of Statistics, Canberra.
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