Separate houses at 88%
At the 2021 Census separate houses made up 88% of occupied homes in Cooma, above the 66% across New South Wales. Flats or apartments came to 5%, below the 22% statewide, and townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses to 6%, below the 12% statewide. On Census night, 14% of private dwellings in Cooma were unoccupied, above the state figure of 9%.
In Cooma, 48% of homes had three bedrooms, above the 35% across New South Wales. Homes with two bedrooms or fewer made up 22%, below the state's 30%, and homes with four or more bedrooms 28%, below the 34% statewide.
Repayments, rent and income in Cooma
The median mortgage repayment in Cooma was $1,276 a month at the 2021 Census, below the $2,167 across New South Wales. Households paying off a mortgage made up 28%, below the state's 33%, while 37% owned their home outright, above the 32% statewide. Median household income was $1,351 a week, below the state's $1,829.
Renting households are 30% of the total, below the 33% across New South Wales. Of them, 59% rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, below the state's 69%. The median rent was $290 a week, below the New South Wales median of $420.
Against the median weekly income of all households in Cooma, renters or not, that median rent works out to 21%. The share is worked out on this page from the two medians; across New South Wales the same working gives 23%, so Cooma sits below the state.
A median age of 43 years
Households in Cooma held 2.2 people on average at the 2021 Census, below the 2.6 across New South Wales. The median age was 43 years, above the state median of 39. The town of Cooma was home to 6,447 people.
Of people aged five and over in Cooma, 54% lived at the same address five years earlier, the same as the 54% across New South Wales. That share comes from one 2021 question about where each person lived in 2016.