11,981 of Pakenham's 18,448 homes are lived in by the people who own them: 65 in every 100, against 68 across Victoria. Doorstep is the neighbourhood app made for them.Download freeQuestions
| Pakenham | 65% | 11,981 | |
| Victoria | 68% | 1,631,388 | |
| Australia | 66% | 6,114,780 |
ABS 2021 Census of Population and Housing, tenure of occupied private dwellings, Pakenham (SAL). These are all homes in the suburb, not Doorstep members.
10,951 of Pakenham's owner-occupied homes are separate houses, with the gardens, fences, gutters and driveways that come with them. That's the stuff neighbours lend each other tools for, and swap tradie names about.
Median age 33. Pakenham skews younger: first homes, first renovations, and a lot of people still working out who's who on the street.
Owners still paying it off are often the newer faces in Pakenham: the households asking who does good gutters, where the kids play weekend sport, and whether anyone has a ladder long enough for the second storey.
Give away what you don't need, borrow what you need once, and ask the street a question. Posts come from people who live around Pakenham.
A national gallery of kitchens, gardens and makeovers people are proud of. Show off yours, or steal ideas for the next one.
Ask who your neighbours would call, and find local businesses rated only by people who live nearby. Businesses in Pakenham →
A free listing for trades, cafés and shops that serve Pakenham, shown to the members who live nearby.
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11,981 of Pakenham's 18,448 occupied homes were owner-occupied at the 2021 Census (65%): 3,445 owned outright and 8,536 with a mortgage. Across Victoria the figure is 68%.
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