Pemulwuy

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Demographics

The median age of 37 is 3.0 years below national, and the household profile is family-heavy: average household size is 3.2, which is 0.7 above national, and couples with children make up 2,721 families against only 707 couples without. Overseas-born residents reach 42.9%, which is 21.3 points above national, with Indian (692), English (653), Chinese (442) and Filipino (378) the largest ancestry groups. University qualifications at 50.9% run 20.8 points above national, consistent with a knowledge-worker base. The top non-English languages are Arabic and Hindi (129 speakers each), then Gujarati (94) and Mandarin (74). Hinduism (767) and Islam (531) follow Christianity (2,885), reflecting the migrant mix that drives most of the population intake.

Tenure is dominated by mortgages: 58.1% of dwellings carry a loan, 22.9% rent and only 19.0% are owned outright, a pattern that signals recent buyers rather than long-held wealth. The stock is overwhelmingly detached at 74.7% separate houses, with apartments at 19.4% and semi-detached at 5.9%, and it skews large, with 57.3% of dwellings holding four or more bedrooms and 24.1% three-bedroom. The median house price held flat at $1,189,500 across 2024 and 2025, a 0.1% move. Mortgage-to-income sits at 21.0% and rent-to-income at 20.7%, both well below the 30% stress line, because household incomes reach the 95.9th percentile nationally. That low stress despite a seven-figure median is the defining housing fact here.

Community Profile

Economy & Employment

The workforce concentrates in services: Healthcare leads at 17.4% (354 workers), Education follows at 11.4% (233), Finance at 10.4% (212), Professional/Tech at 9.8% (199) and Public Administration at 9.2% (188). By occupation, Professionals (784) and Managers (503) make up the largest groups, which aligns with the decile 7 IEO score for education and occupation. Unemployment is low at 4.2% and the full-time employment rate is 72.8%, above typical levels. Participation reads 58.1%, held down because 1,197 residents sit outside the labour force, many of them parents in larger households. The economic-resources index (IER) scores decile 9, higher than the IRSAD decile of 8, reflecting strong household balance sheets relative to overall advantage.

Transport to Work

Pemulwuy is car-dependent: 87.6% of residents drive to work while only 3.1% use public transport and 2.1% walk or cycle, reflecting its low density of 369 residents per square kilometre across 14.98 square kilometres. The suburb scores decile 8 on IRSAD, an above-average advantage tier, and decile 7 on the IRSD index of relative disadvantage, meaning few residents face deprivation, with only 3.4% (181 people) needing daily assistance. Volunteering runs at 10.4%. Housing stress is contained, with rent-to-income at 20.7% and mortgage-to-income at 21.0%, both below the 30% threshold. No schools are recorded inside the boundary in this dataset, so families rely on institutions in neighbouring suburbs, a trade-off for the spacious, low-density estate layout.

Population Forecast

Pemulwuy is a fast-growing established estate: population rose 35.9% over the decade and continues to expand at 1.94% a year, adding roughly 220 residents annually. Overseas migration is the primary driver, contributing about 92 net residents a year while internal migration subtracts 12, so the intake is almost entirely migration-led rather than internal churn. The trajectory is aging, with the senior share up 3.9 points and the working-age share down 4.8 points over the decade, though the median age of 37 stays below national. Gentrification reads early signs with a score of 24, and affordability moved only slightly from 57.9% in 2011 to 55.9% in 2021, classed as stable, so growth is volume-driven rather than price-driven.

National Ranking iPercentile rank among ~15,000 AU suburbs. 90% = higher than 90% of suburbs

How Pemulwuy compares to ~15,000 Australian suburbs

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