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Mount Beauty is in Alpine LGA, VIC, postcode 3699, with population 910.
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The local employment base leans toward healthcare and education. Local earnings momentum is not available from the linked ATO series. VIC employment is up +0.9% year-on-year (+33K jobs) and +13.9% over five years in the official NERO dataset. Read this as a broader state jobs backdrop combined with local employment mix, not a suburb-only new-jobs count.
VIC has 45 Commonwealth-backed major projects under construction, 17 underway, and 27 in planning as at 2024-10-02. There is no matched local transport-stop count here, so read the infrastructure backdrop as broader state delivery context only. Read this as a state delivery backdrop, not a suburb-specific project list.
Mount Beauty is a small community in Victoria within the Alpine local government area (postcode 3699). With a population of 910, the suburb has a mature demographic with a median age of 48. Households earn a median income of $52K per year, with an average household size of 2 people. VIC employment has moved +0.9% year-on-year in the official Jobs and Skills Australia NERO series, which provides the broader jobs backdrop for this suburb. VIC also had 45 Commonwealth-backed major projects under construction, 17 underway, and 27 in planning as at 2 October 2024, which is useful as a broader delivery backdrop rather than a suburb-specific project count. The most common occupations are professionals, community & personal service, technicians & trades. Employment in the area leans toward healthcare and education. The top ancestries reported are Australian, English, Irish.
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Mount Beauty is a small community in Victoria within the Alpine local government area (postcode 3699). With a population of 910, the suburb has a mature demographic with a median age of 48. Households earn a median income of $52K per year, with an average household size of 2 people. VIC employment has moved +0.9% year-on-year in the official Jobs and Skills Australia NERO series, which provides the broader jobs backdrop for this suburb. VIC also had 45 Commonwealth-backed major projects under construction, 17 underway, and 27 in planning as at 2 October 2024, which is useful as a broader delivery backdrop rather than a suburb-specific project count. The most common occupations are professionals, community & personal service, technicians & trades. Employment in the area leans toward healthcare and education. The top ancestries reported are Australian, English, Irish.
The median house price in Mount Beauty is $600,000, having grown strongly 9.1% over the past year. The current median weekly rent is $425. This gives a gross rental yield of approximately 3.7%. The median monthly mortgage repayment is $928.
Mount Beauty is served by 2 schools, including 1 primary, 1 secondary. The average ICSEA score is 1048, which is around the national average of 1,000. Healthcare facilities include 1 public hospital. The crime rate in the Alpine LGA is moderate at 4,197 incidents per 100,000 population.
From an investment perspective, Mount Beauty offers a gross rental yield of 3.7%, rated as moderate yield. Property prices sit below the state median ($600K/$875K), suggesting a potential value opportunity. The price-to-income ratio of 11.6x is considered stretched. House prices have moved +9.1% year-on-year.
Mount Beauty is a small community in Victoria within the Alpine local government area (postcode 3699). With a population of 910, the suburb has a mature demographic with a median age of 48. Households earn a median income of $52K per year, with an average household size of 2 people. VIC employment has moved +0.9% year-on-year in the official Jobs and Skills Australia NERO series, which provides the broader jobs backdrop for this suburb. VIC also had 45 Commonwealth-backed major projects under construction, 17 underway, and 27 in planning as at 2 October 2024, which is useful as a broader delivery backdrop rather than a suburb-specific project count. The most common occupations are professionals, community & personal service, technicians & trades. Employment in the area leans toward healthcare and education. The top ancestries reported are Australian, English, Irish.
The median house price in Mount Beauty is $600,000, having grown strongly 9.1% over the past year. The current median weekly rent is $425. This gives a gross rental yield of approximately 3.7%. The median monthly mortgage repayment is $928.
Mount Beauty is served by 2 schools, including 1 primary, 1 secondary. The average ICSEA score is 1048, which is around the national average of 1,000. Healthcare facilities include 1 public hospital. The crime rate in the Alpine LGA is moderate at 4,197 incidents per 100,000 population.
From an investment perspective, Mount Beauty offers a gross rental yield of 3.7%, rated as moderate yield. Property prices sit below the state median ($600K/$875K), suggesting a potential value opportunity. The price-to-income ratio of 11.6x is considered stretched. House prices have moved +9.1% year-on-year.