SNHN's median rent is A$588/week against a median household income of A$2,639/week — a rent-to-income ratio of 22.3%. The catchment skews 50.7% separate houses and 39.6% apartments, but the mix flips dramatically by LGA: North Sydney is overwhelmingly apartments, Hornsby and Northern Beaches are mostly houses. Housing stress is a structural determinant of health outcomes; it shows up differently in each LGA.
Sorted from highest to lowest. Ratios are SA2-weighted by population within each LGA.
Among households with a mortgage, the SA2-weighted median per LGA.
Each bar is one LGA's dwelling mix, normalised to 100%. The variance — North Sydney 80%+ apartments, Hornsby 80%+ houses — drives where ageing-in-place and home-care commissioning will land differently.
The internationally common housing-stress threshold is 30%. None of SNHN's LGAs cross that at the median; but the lowest-income individual renters within an LGA can sit well above. This LGA-level view masks the SA1-level tails.
The mortgage version of rent stress. Monthly mortgage payment ÷ (weekly household income × 4.33), per LGA. Same 30% benchmark for housing stress applies — at the median, no SNHN LGA crosses it.
X-axis is apartment share of dwellings, Y-axis is median weekly rent. Reveals whether higher-apartment LGAs pay more or less per week — a structural lens on the rental market.
Each card: median rent, median mortgage, dwelling mix shorthand, and rent-to-income ratio.
Source data:
abs_geo.mv_lga_sa2 with population-weighting.Known data gaps to address:
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