Australia Yearbook - 2001

300 Year Book Australia 2001
8.1 DWELLINGS, By Dwelling Structure and State/Territory—1997–98
Semi-detached/row
or terrace
Separate house house/townhouse Flat/unit/apartment Total(a)
Total(a)
State/Territory
%
%
%
% ’000
New South Wales 74.0 9.1 16.3 100.0 2 336.5
Victoria 81.2 7.2 11.2 100.0 1 724.7
Queensland 82.2 5.8 10.8 100.0 1 301.6
South Australia 78.5 13.2 7.5 100.0 603.1
Western Australia 81.9 12.9 5.0 100.0 689.3
Tasmania 84.4 9.1 5.8 100.0 185.8
Northern Territory(b) 74.6 11.8 11.6 100.0 52.4
Australian Capital Territory 79.3 12.4 8.0 100.0 118.9
Australia 78.8 8.8 11.7 100.0 7 012.3
(a) Includes other dwellings. (b) Excludes remote and sparsely settled areas.
Source: Unpublished data, Survey of Income and Housing Costs, 1997–98.
8.2 NUMBER OF DWELLINGS, By Dwelling Structure and Number of Bedrooms—1997–98
Semi-detached/row or
terrace
Separate house house/townhouse Flat/unit/apartment
Total(a)
No. of bedrooms
’000
’000
’000
’000
Bedsitter n.p. (b)7.9 (b)14.2 24.3
One bedroom 40.1 56.3 211.0 321.2
2 bedrooms 671.4 300.6 505.5 1 491.6
3 bedrooms 3 257.7 229.8 80.9 3 581.7
4 or more bedrooms 1 557.7 24.6 (b)9.3 1 593.4
All dwellings 5 529.0 619.3 821.0 7 012.3
(a) Includes other dwellings. (b) The estimate has a relative standard error of 25% to 50%.
Source: Unpublished data, Survey of Income and Housing Costs, 1997–98.
Number of bedrooms
One indicator of dwelling size is the number of
bedrooms. In 1997–98, half of all dwellings in
Australia had three bedrooms, 23% had four or
more bedrooms and 21% had two bedrooms
(table 8.2). Of separate houses, 59% had three
bedrooms, while two bedroom dwellings were
more common in semi-detached houses and in
flats, units and apartments (49% and 62%
respectively).
Over a third (35%) of three bedroom dwellings
had only two persons living in them, a further
19% had three persons, and 18% had four
persons (table 8.3). About 19% of three bedroom
dwellings had only one person living in them. Of
two bedroom dwellings, most had one or two
persons living in them (42% and 43%
respectively).
Information on the incidence of other types of
rooms such as bathrooms, toilets, laundries and
lounge/dining/family rooms is available from the
1994 Australian Housing Survey. These data were
collected again in the 1999 Australian Housing
Survey.