Melburnians love their holiday homes

Melburnians are twice as likely as the rest of the country to have a holiday home, the latest data from Roy Morgan Research shows.

It found 1 in 20 Melbourne residents (5.0%) have a holiday home.

The rest of Australia the overall holiday home-ownership rate is just 1 in 40. 

Some 2.8% of people in Sydney or Brisbane have a holiday home, ahead of 2.7% in Adelaide and 2.4% in Perth.

Only around 1 in 50 non-capital city residents have a holiday home.

Nationally around 560,000 Australians report having a holiday home.

Angela Smith, group account director consumer products, Roy Morgan Research, says aside from Melbourne, residents of Canberra and Hobart are also more likely than average to have a holiday home.

% of Australians with a Holiday Home by Mainland State Capital City

Source: Roy Morgan Single Source, July 2013–June 2014, sample = 16,809 Australians 14+