Tenure type explained Place Forecast Feature

Abbreviated as TEND; referenced by

Tenure type shows whether the homes in an area are owned or rented. It counts occupied private dwellings, the homes people were living in on Census night.

These figures are Place Forecast estimates based on Census data published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

There are five categories:

  • Owned outright.
  • Owned with a mortgage.
  • Rented.
  • Other tenure type.
  • Not stated.

Owned with a mortgage includes homes bought through a shared equity scheme.

Other tenure type covers a few small groups. Some homes are lived in rent free. Some are held under a life tenure scheme, which is common in retirement villages.

Empty homes are not counted. Nor are non-private dwellings, such as hotels, hospitals, aged-care homes, or hostels.

Two ABS household groups are left out here. They are Visitor only homes and homes that do not fit a group, which are mostly homes that returned no Census form. So the total here sits a little below the full ABS count of homes for the area.

Not stated covers homes where the question was left blank.

To see who rented homes are rented from, look at landlord type. To see what owners pay, look at housing loan repayments. To see what renters pay, look at housing rental payments.

Reading this data fairly

These figures show how people answered Census questions. Here are the equity caveats to keep in mind. They keep the numbers fair:

  • A home is counted by how the household holds it, not by who lives there.
  • Renting suits some households and is the only option for others. Read the share of renters as a count of homes. It is not a measure of need or a judgement about the people who live in them.
  • In many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, the land is held for the community as a whole. Homes there are rarely owned by one household, so a low share of owned homes reflects how the land is held.

See the marker methodology for how these figures are calculated and their limitations.

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