Red Lion is in Central Goldfields LGA, VIC, postcode 3371, with population 111.
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The page is thin enough that nearby alternatives should be checked before shortlisting. Small local population makes the signal set more fragile.
Price series isn't recorded for this suburb. Census housing data is shown instead.
Owners with a mortgage repay a median of $1,083/mo, while renters pay about $1,647/mo — renting runs $564/mo higher on these medians.
LGA-level official projection (Victoria in Future 2023, DTP). Indicative of the wider council area, not a suburb-level forecast.
Located in Victoria within the Central Goldfields local government area, Red Lion is a sparsely populated locality (postcode 3371). It is home to about 111 residents, with an older-leaning population and a median age of 52. Households earn a median income of $68K per year, with an average household size of 2.1 people. Recent annual estimates show population movement staying broadly stable across the broader catchment, with population growth running at +0.5% year-on-year at the LGA level. 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 community & personal service, labourers, professionals. Employment in the area leans toward education and agriculture. The top ancestries reported are Australian, English, Scottish.
The current median weekly rent is $380. The median monthly mortgage repayment is $1,083.
The crime rate in the Central Goldfields LGA is higher than average at 10,450 incidents per 100,000 population.
Looking at the investment signals, Population growth of +0.5% year-on-year points to stable demand fundamentals. Building approvals have changed +0% year-on-year, indicating steady development activity.
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pop same · rent -$187/wk
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pop same · rent -$145/wk
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Red Lion is in the Central Goldfields Local Government Area, VIC, postcode 3371. Council-level context for Central Goldfields LGA (suburb mix, population, rent, and price coverage) is available on the QuickProperty LGA page.
The median weekly rent in Red Lion is $380/wk, based on the current market rent dataset. The current rent signal is rent context available.
Rent context available: Red Lion 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 Red Lion 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.