house statistics

it's estimated that Australia has around 11 million dwellings. 

Of these, 3.3million are investment properties. 

Population 28.3 million

In the 2020-21 financial year, 2.24 million Australian taxpayers (around 20% of all taxpayers) owned investment properties, and they collectively held 3.25 million investment properties. This means that on average, each property investor owned 1.45 investment properties. 

Here's a breakdown of how many properties individual investors owned: 

71.48%: of investors held 1 investment property.

18.86%: of investors held 2 investment properties.

5.81%: of investors owned 3 investment properties.

2.11%: of investors owned 4 investment properties.

0.87%: of investors owned 5 investment properties.

0.89%: (or 19,920) of investors held 6 or more investment properties.