Drouin's homes, counted by bedroom
Separate houses account for 90% of occupied homes in Drouin, above the 73% across Victoria. Townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses come to 5%, below the state's 14%, and flats or apartments to 4%. Between them, these shares suggest that apartment buildings and attached homes made up a smaller part of Drouin's housing than of the state's at the 2021 Census.
In the bedroom counts, 42% of homes in Drouin have four or more bedrooms, above Victoria's 33%, while 16% have two bedrooms or fewer, below 25%. Three-bedroom homes come to 40%, below the state's 42%. 6% of private dwellings in Drouin were unoccupied on Census night, against 11% across Victoria.
Mortgages and rents set against Victoria's
40% of households in Drouin are paying off a mortgage, above the 36% across Victoria. The median repayment is $1,647 a month, below the state's $1,859. Another 36% of households own their home outright, above 32% statewide. Median household income in Drouin is $1,432 a week, below the $1,759 across Victoria.
21% of households in Drouin rent, below Victoria's 29%, and the median rent is $330 a week, below $370 for the state. As a share of the median income of all Drouin households, renting or not, the median rent works out at 23%, above 21% across Victoria; that is arithmetic done on this page from two medians, not a figure for what renters pay. 73% of renting households rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, the same as the state, and the rest from state housing, community housing, a private person or another landlord.
Drouin's residents
Of people aged five and over, 46% lived at the same address five years earlier, against 54% for the state. The figure rests on a single 2021 question asking where each person lived in 2016, so it covers that five-year span only.
15,287 people lived in the suburb of Drouin at the 2021 Census. The median age was 39 years, above Victoria's 38, and an average household held 2.5 people, the same as across the state. On household size, then, Drouin matches the state, while its median age sits above Victoria's and suggests a population older on the whole.