Australian Suburb Profiles

Sitting at 67,000 residents on a bayside peninsula 25km southwest of Melbourne CBD, Point Cook is the largest growth-corridor suburb in Australia and the highes…

Median house at $655,800 sits 0.6% below the 2022 peak, yet Craigieburn is the only Hume LGA suburb pulling SEIFA IRSD decile 2 (deep disadvantage) while runnin…

Of all the West-corridor land-release suburbs, Tarneit is the one that has gone vertical on demographics rather than dwellings. The population sits at 56,370, t…

Calling Melbourne 3000 a residential suburb misreads what 54,941 people actually do here. Of the dwellings counted, 99.7% are apartments and only 0.1% are separ…

Few Melbourne suburbs have grown faster than Pakenham: the population swelled 270% over the past decade as the SE growth corridor pushed estate after estate eas…

With 51,096 residents spread across 19 square kilometres, Reservoir is one of Melbourne's largest single suburbs by population, yet it reads less like a stereot…

Anchored by detached family housing on the south-east edge of Greater Melbourne, Berwick has grown 52% since 2011 to a population of 50,298 across 33.2 km². The…

Once a satellite town between Melbourne and Geelong, Werribee has doubled in size over the last decade, with population climbing 105.7% to 50,027 residents at a…

Few Melbourne postcodes blend established Anglo-Australian wealth with a clear migrant-majority identity the way 3150 does. The median house price sits at $1.69…

On Melbourne's north-western fringe, Sunbury reads as a classic mortgage-belt growth town: 88.6% detached housing, a $670,000 median price, and 47.8% of residen…

St Albans has transformed into a multicultural pocket with 64% overseas-born residents, dominated by Vietnamese (26% of population), yet crime runs 17% above na…

Frankston has doubled in price since 2013 (113.9% appreciation, 5.6% CAGR) despite sitting at the 39.5 percentile for household income nationally. Its attractio…

More than half of Blacktown's 50,961 residents were born overseas (53.4%, a full 31.8pp above the national average), and the suburb's character is shaped less b…

Port Macquarie reads less like a coastal holiday town and more like a regional hospital city that happens to have beaches. Healthcare alone employs 27.6% of the…

Sitting 400 km north-west of Sydney, Dubbo is the de-facto capital of NSW's central west, with 43,516 residents spread across 990 sqkm, a population that has sw…

With 41,232 residents and a healthcare workforce that absorbs 25.9% of all employment, Orange functions as the medical capital of the NSW Central West rather th…

Forty thousand residents, $2,551 weekly household income (92.9th percentile nationally), and a population that is 45.4% overseas-born with Chinese ancestry (8,2…

Few Sydney suburbs compress as much demographic intensity into 8.56 square kilometres as Auburn does. Population sits at 39,333 with density of 4,593 per km², r…

Thirty-seven thousand residents across 13.65 km², a $1.675M median house price that climbed 8.5% from 2024 to 2025, and Baulkham Hills High School running a 120…

Sitting 19km southwest of Sydney CBD, Bankstown houses 34,933 residents in just 6.35 sqkm, a density of 5,498 per sqkm that puts it firmly in inner-Sydney terri…

Sitting one Cumberland Line stop from Parramatta CBD, Merrylands packs 32,472 residents into 6.73 km² at a density of 4,828 per km², edging slightly above neigh…

Population grew 144.7% over the past decade and apartments now make up 55.8% of dwellings against 35.4% detached, an inversion of the Sydney middle-ring norm. R…

Sitting on the T8 line 16km south of Sydney CBD, Hurstville is the South Sydney mirror to Chatswood: a Chinese-anchored commercial and residential hub where 70.…

Sitting 27km southwest of Sydney CBD on the T2/T8 junction, Liverpool packs 31,078 residents into 6.36 sqkm at a density of 4,890 per sqkm, denser than most mid…

Southport functions as the Gold Coast's administrative CBD anchor, but the demographic data tells a different story than Surfers Paradise's tourist economy: 60.…

Sitting on a 200m plateau roughly 7km inland from Mooloolaba, Buderim is the Sunshine Coast's hinterland counterweight to the beach-strip suburbs and the demogr…

Sitting 50km north of Brisbane CBD on the Bruce Highway, Caboolture has grown 54.5% in a decade to 29,534 residents , a faster expansion than most established B…

Population grew 130.1% over the decade to 27,180 residents, more than doubling in ten years and outpacing every established Brisbane and Gold Coast peer. The Co…

Few Australian suburbs run as hard against the residential template as this 5.8 sqkm strip on the Gold Coast: 82.0% of dwellings are apartments (national averag…

Built from scratch in the 1990s as one of Australia's earliest large masterplanned communities, Robina now houses 25,659 people across 14.96 sqkm of canal-laced…

Population has expanded 54.5% in a decade to 24,898 residents, yet Morayfield's SEIFA profile reveals a sharper contradiction than its larger neighbour Cabooltu…

Population grew 2,590% over the decade to 24,601 residents, a near-26-fold expansion that ranks Pimpama as one of Australia's fastest-growing suburbs and dwarfs…

Redbank Plains is a 24,349-resident Ipswich LGA growth corridor 28km southwest of Brisbane CBD, defined by a median age of 27 (13 years below the national 40), …

Carved out of bushland by Stockland in 1996 and still being filled in, North Lakes packs 23,030 residents into 11.73 sqkm of cul-de-sac estates wrapped around W…

Delfin's 1990s experiment in master-planning, Forest Lake holds 22,676 residents on 9.82 sqkm of circular street loops radiating from a central lake. The househ…

Kallangur stands out as a car-led, detached-home suburb with 74.3% separate houses and only 1.5% apartments, yet renters make up a high 44.1% of households. Com…

Few Australian suburbs have remade themselves as fast as Baldivis. Population climbed 184.5% in a decade, and the trend forecast still adds 816 residents a year…

Few Perth suburbs combine the migrant gravity, oversized houses, and quiet aging that Canning Vale does. Of 34,504 residents, 51.5% were born overseas, 29.9 per…

Perth's largest master-planned community sits 25km northeast of the CBD, home to 24,668 residents with a median age of 32 (eight years below the national median…

Few Perth suburbs carry the layered migrant ancestry that Dianella does, and fewer still concentrate it inside 10.7 square kilometres of mostly 1960s and 1970s …

Train terminus suburbs rarely look this lived-in. Thornlie sits at the end of the Thornlie line within Gosnells LGA, holding 23,665 residents at 2,042 per squar…

Morley stands out as a large, established 6062 address with 22,539 residents across 10.5 sqkm, giving it a density of 2,146.8 people per sqkm. Compared with nea…

Gosnells stands out for a mix of affordability pressure and migration depth: 39.1% of residents were born overseas, 17.5 percentage points above the national co…

School catchment demand defines Willetton more than nightlife: 6 local schools include Willetton Senior High with 2,767 students and ICSEA 1,131. The suburb is …

A 150.9% population rise over 10 years defines Byford more than any single amenity. With 18,878 residents, a median age of 31, and 98.8% separate houses, it fun…

Detached housing defines Ballajura: 94.4% of dwellings are separate houses and only 0.2% are apartments, a much lower apartment share than many middle-ring Pert…

High vacancy is the standout feature in Scarborough: 12.8% of dwellings are vacant while 40.3% of homes are rented, giving the beachside market a more fluid fee…

Detached housing sets Australind apart more than many coastal-fringe markets near Bunbury and Eaton, with 93.9% separate houses and 67.5% of homes having 4 or m…

South Australia's largest regional city sits 450km south-east of Adelaide on the limestone coast, with 25,591 residents at a relatively compact 955 people per s…

At 24,002 residents packed into 12.76 sqkm, Morphett Vale is one of Adelaide's largest single suburbs by head count, denser at 1,881 people per sqkm than region…

With 89.5% separate houses and 41.9% of homes carrying a mortgage, Parafield Gardens reads as a northern Adelaide family mortgage belt rather than a small infil…

Growth defines Mount Barker: a 48.2% population lift over 10 years and a forecast 2.88% annual rise make it one of the Adelaide Hills' faster expanding centres.…

Adelaide's standout trait is not just its CBD address: 66.3% of households rent, 67.8% live in apartments and 55.8% were born overseas. The resident base is you…

Detached family housing defines Paralowie: 94.3% of dwellings are separate houses and 50.6% of homes carry a mortgage, giving it a clearly mortgaged family-subu…

Murray Bridge's standout trait is scale with affordability pressure, not price heat: 15,043 people live at 576.1 per sq km, yet household income sits in only th…

A compact 4.97 sq km inner-north suburb, Prospect carries 14,584 residents at 2,935.8 people per sq km, with household income in the 75.1 percentile. The stando…

A high 81.9% separate-house share shapes Port Lincoln more than its harbour-city label: detached homes dominate while apartments are only 6.1%. Compared with ne…

University attainment is the standout marker: 49.4% of residents hold a degree, 19.3 points above the national level. Mawson Lakes combines a young median age o…

Detached housing and low reported crime define Hallett Cove more than its beachside name: 94.8% of dwellings are separate houses, apartments are only 0.1%, and …

Happy Valley is defined less by rapid expansion than by settled ownership: 37.1% of homes are owned outright and 51.3% are mortgaged, while renting sits at only…

Devonport's strongest signal is its older, lower-income coastal-city profile: the median age is 43, which is 3.0 years above the national benchmark, while house…

A 11.4% vacancy rate sets Sandy Bay apart from its polished waterfront image, because rental supply is looser even while the median house price sits at $1,302,5…

Kingston's standout is how suburban its housing remains for a main Kingborough hub: 89.1% of dwellings are separate houses and only 0.8% are apartments. The pop…

Lower-income but strategically central to Hobart's northern suburbs, Glenorchy combines 12,013 residents, a median age of 35 and a household income percentile o…

Howrah's median house price achieved a 6.7% compound annual growth rate over 30 years, rising from $123,000 in 1996 to $850,000 in 2026, now at an all-time peak…

Claremont's house prices have delivered a 7.1% CAGR across 30 years, growing from $82,500 in 1996 to $645,000 in 2026, a trajectory that turned a working-class …

A 598% price increase from $127,500 in 1996 to $890,000 in 2026, compounding at 6.7% annually over 30 years, makes Blackmans Bay one of the strongest long-run g…

A 30-year median house price CAGR of 7.0%, from $100,000 in 1996 to $760,000 in 2026, tells Riverside's story more precisely than any lifestyle label. This nort…

Median house prices in Newnham jumped from $500,000 in 2024 to $656,000 by 2026, a 31% lift in two years that now marks the suburb's all-time peak after a 30-ye…

A median house price of $1,092,500 is the headline number in New Town, and it jumped from $868,000 in 2025, a 25.9% one-year move that outpaces almost any other…

A median age of 49 sits a full 9.0 years above the national figure, and that single statistic shapes much of what Ulverstone is. The town of 6,653 residents on …

A $775,500 median house price sits alongside a median age of 46, six years above the national figure, and the two are linked: this is an established, equity-ric…

A 15,670-person footprint makes Kambah one of Tuggeranong's larger residential districts, with a density of 1,382.3 people per sq km and a strongly detached pat…

Ngunnawal's standout trait is how strongly family and owner-purchaser its Gungahlin profile feels: 51.1% of homes are being bought with a mortgage, and 62.8% of…

Public Administration employs 25.9% of Gungahlin's workforce (1,011 people), the highest single-industry concentration in this batch, reflecting Canberra's gove…

Two-thirds of Belconnen residents rent (66.2%), nearly double the national average, while 64.9% hold university degrees, placing the suburb 34.8 percentage poin…

Harrison grew 85.6% over the past decade, the fastest rate in this cohort by a wide margin, yet the population actually declined from 8,619 pre-COVID to 8,023 b…

Gordon's population is shrinking at -0.06% per year, making it one of only 2 suburbs in this cohort with negative growth, yet household incomes sit at the 89th …

Wanniassa's population is declining at -0.27% per year (21 people lost annually), the steepest drop in this cohort, driven by net internal outflows of -128 per …

Nearly half of Kaleen's workforce (29.6%) draws a public administration salary, yet the suburb is losing domestic residents at 104 per year while gaining 116 ov…

University qualifications at 64.5% are 34.4 points above the national average, the highest in this batch, yet 51.6% of residents rent and the median age is 29, …

Franklin grew 96.7% in population over 10 years, one of Canberra's fastest greenfield expansions, yet real incomes declined 13.1% over the same period, an unusu…

A 390% population increase over the decade tells the story: Bonner is a greenfield suburb that went from near-empty to 7,339 residents in under 10 years, and is…

When 33.4% of workers are in public administration, a suburb's economic identity is inseparable from the federal government. Dunlop's 7,265 residents earn at th…

Apartments make up 99.2% of dwellings here, one of the most concentrated high-density profiles in the country, and 77.3% of residents rent rather than own. That…

A $389,000 median house price sits alongside an overseas-born share of 33.4%, which is 11.8 points above the national figure, and the two facts together define …

A $455,000 median house price sitting alongside household income in the 84.4th percentile nationally is an unusual pairing, and it defines Leanyer in Darwin's n…

Household income at the 82.8th percentile nationally makes Gillen one of Alice Springs' more prosperous residential pockets, yet 42.1% of dwellings are rented a…

Household incomes in the 90.7th percentile nationally sit alongside a $479,000 median house price, making Humpty Doo one of the more affordable high-income subu…

At a median age of 28, Zuccoli skews 12 years younger than the national figure, making it one of Darwin's youngest family suburbs by demographic profile. Househ…

Household income at the 90.6th percentile nationally sets Rosebery apart from most Darwin fringe suburbs, yet 53.8% of residents rent rather than own, and the m…

At 1.65 km2 with 4,101 residents, Stuart Park packs an unusually high-income, transient population into a compact Darwin fringe. Household incomes sit in the 87…

At 2,027 people per km2 packed into just 1.95 km2, Larrakeyah is one of Darwin's most densely occupied suburbs, yet it carries household incomes in the 89.7th p…

With 54.2% of residents holding university qualifications, 24.1 percentage points above the national figure, Nightcliff stands out as one of Darwin's most educa…

At median age 31, Durack sits 9 years younger than the national figure, and household incomes land in the 91.9th percentile nationally, a combination that signa…

At median age 29, Muirhead is 11 years younger than the national median, a gap that reflects its unusual demographic engine: household incomes sit in the 97.3rd…