Merrijig is in Mansfield LGA, VIC, postcode 3723, with population 721.
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Official vacancy is published at the Regional Victoria level, not per suburb. Shaded band marks a balanced market (2.5–3.5%).
85% of homes here are owner-occupied and 11% rented, with 5% of landlords negatively geared.
85% owner-occupied — owner-occupiers hold longer and absorb rate shocks, supporting price stability.
ABS Census 2021 tenure (G37), ATO postcode rental statistics, and QuickProperty's investor-exposure index. Owner-occupied = owned outright + with a mortgage.
This suburb 31% · VIC median 17%
Nationally · lighter rent burden than 5% of AU suburbs
Owners with a mortgage repay a median of $1,733/mo, while renters pay about $2,383/mo — renting runs $650/mo higher on these medians.
Getting to work: 53% drive, 1% public transport, 23% walk or cycle, 22% worked from home (2021 Census, taken during COVID-era work-from-home arrangements).
Top 79% most liveable of 4,565Australian suburbs.
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Suburb-level access-density index (not an address-level walk-time score), normalised within Australian suburbs. Method based on the Urban Liveability Index (Higgs et al. 2019) and Walk Score — three equal-weighted domains combined with an imbalance penalty.
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Merrijig is a small community in Victoria within the Mansfield local government area (postcode 3723). The area has roughly 721 residents and a blend of families and working-age professionals, with a median age of 32. Households earn a median income of $92K per year, with an average household size of 2.3 people. Recent annual estimates show population movement into the broader catchment, with population growth running at +1.9% year-on-year at the LGA level. VIC employment has moved +0.8% year-on-year in the official ABS Labour Force trend series, which provides the broader jobs backdrop for this suburb. VIC also had 41 Commonwealth-backed major projects under construction, 18 underway, and 24 in planning as at 2025-09-01, which is useful as a broader delivery backdrop rather than a suburb-specific project count. The most common occupations are managers, professionals, community & personal service. Employment in the area leans toward education and accommodation & food. The top ancestries reported are English, Australian, Irish.
The current median weekly rent is $550. The median monthly mortgage repayment is $1,733.
Merrijig is served by 1 school, including 1 primary. The average ICSEA score is 918, which is below the national average of 1,000. The crime rate in the Mansfield LGA is below average at 3,426 incidents per 100,000 population.
Looking at the investment signals, Population growth of +1.9% year-on-year points to stable demand fundamentals. Building approvals have changed +0% year-on-year, indicating steady development activity.
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Merrijig is in the Mansfield Local Government Area, VIC, postcode 3723. Council-level context for Mansfield LGA (suburb mix, population, rent, and price coverage) is available on the QuickProperty LGA page.
The median weekly rent in Merrijig is $550/wk, based on the current market rent dataset. The current rent signal is rent context available.
Rent context available: Merrijig has usable rent context. Use this as a suburb screening signal before comparing candidates or modelling a purchase; the matching rent ranking can provide broader market context.
QuickProperty's investment signals for Merrijig show: Stable, Steady. These are computed from price, rent, income, and population data — not an opaque score.
Property prices come from state Valuers General offices and ABS Data by Region. Demographics are from ABS Census 2021. School ICSEA scores are from ACARA. Crime statistics are from state police agencies. Transport data is sourced from GTFS feeds.
Property prices update quarterly. RBA macro indicators update with each deploy. Demographics are from Census 2021. School ICSEA scores are from ACARA 2025.