Negatively-geared growth belt
68% of homes here are owner-occupied and 28% rented, with 56% of landlords negatively geared.
56% of local landlords are negatively geared — investors here are betting on capital growth over rental income.
Property data for VIC. Rent signals, largest suburbs, lower-price entries, the macro coverage picture, and a desk for ranking, comparing, and modelling without leaving the state.
VIC sits inside the Australian section of QuickProperty, but its data does not behave uniformly. Price and rent coverage are stronger in metro markets, thinner in regional ones, and the state's median is only ever as honest as that coverage. This bulletin opens with the suburbs that anchor most decisions — the largest by population and the most affordable with real scale — before handing off to the full state browse view below.
Treat the medians as starting reads. Treat the suburb pages as where the work actually happens. Treat compare and the calculator as the stages where the shortlist gets stress-tested before listings.
Median house price, median weekly rent, and median gross yield across QuickProperty's eight state datasets. Coverage differs by state, so treat these as screening positions, not valuations.
68% of homes here are owner-occupied and 28% rented, with 56% of landlords negatively geared.
56% of local landlords are negatively geared — investors here are betting on capital growth over rental income.
ABS Census 2021 tenure aggregated across the state's suburbs and ATO postcode rental statistics summed to state level. No state-level new-lending split is published; see the national page for lending flows.
ABS SA2-level projections rolled up to VIC, sum of 518 SA2 areas (male + female across all age brackets, base year 2022).
Projected total population, VIC
+9.9% vs base
+18.7% vs base
AEMO 5-minute price + demand data for VIC1, rolled to monthly averages over the last 13 months. Wholesale price is one of the larger inputs to retail electricity, ahead of network and retail margins.
-17.0% YoY
Trades on the top 5% expensive intervals — the spike signal.
Highest 5-min total demand in the month.
Top postcodes ranked by Clean Energy Regulator small-scale installs per 1,000 residents. VIC cumulative: 883,563 installs across 711 postcodes, 5.84GW capacity, 58,919 added in the last 12 months.
80 local government areas in VIC. Open an LGA for area-level rent, prices, and suburb roll-up.
Browse Melbourne suburbs → Melbourne house prices → Melbourne suburbs map → Melbourne postcodes →
2,835 VIC suburbs indexed. Jump to a letter, then open a suburb for prices, rent, schools, demographics, and investment signals.
QuickProperty indexes 2,835 VIC suburb pages, with 738 suburbs carrying house price coverage and 2,374 suburbs carrying rent coverage in the current processed dataset.
Across VIC suburbs with available house price data, the median house price shown on this hub is $725K. Treat it as a suburb-screening benchmark, not a property valuation.
Across VIC suburbs with available rent data, the median weekly rent shown on this hub is $260/wk. Individual suburb pages may differ materially from the state-level benchmark.
Start with the VIC rent signal cards when rent pressure matters, open a large suburb for context, use rankings if the state still feels too broad, or move two to three candidates into compare once you have a realistic shortlist.