Diamond Creek real estate

On Census night 2021, 3% of private dwellings in Diamond Creek were unoccupied, below the 11% across Victoria. Separate houses made up 94% of occupied homes, above the state's 73%, while townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses came to 5%, below the 14% statewide, and flats or apartments to fewer than 1%, below the 12% statewide.

Homes with four or more bedrooms made up 52% of homes in Diamond Creek, above the 33% across Victoria, and three-bedroom homes 41%, below the state's 42%. Homes with two bedrooms or fewer came to 7%, below the Victorian figure of 25%.

In Diamond Creek, 10% of households rent, below the 29% across Victoria. Of those renting households, 72% rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, below the state's 73%. Median rent was $430 a week, above the Victorian median of $370.

In Diamond Creek, 53% of households are paying off a mortgage, above the state's 36%, and 35% own their home outright, above Victoria's 32%. The median mortgage repayment was $2,167 a month, above the state median of $1,859. Median household income came to $2,508 a week, above the $1,759 across Victoria.

Put alongside the median weekly income of all households, renters or not, the median rent equals 17%. That share is worked out on this page from the two medians; across Victoria the same working gives 21%, placing Diamond Creek below the state.

Of people aged five and over in Diamond Creek, 69% lived at the same address five years earlier, above the 54% across Victoria. The figure comes from one 2021 question about where each person lived in 2016.

The suburb of Diamond Creek was home to 12,503 people at the 2021 Census. Its households held 2.9 people on average, above the 2.5 across Victoria, and its median age was 39 years, above the state median of 38.