Burwood VIC 3125
Burwood is a suburb in Victoria, 16 km from Melbourne CBD, around 25 minutes by car. Population is 15,147; the median age is 34 and the median household income is $87,568 per year. By household income, education, and employment patterns, it ranks in the top 20% nationally. At the 2021 Census, households here paid a median rent of $411 per week and a median monthly mortgage of $2,500. Burwood is characterised by high crime risk and no recorded bushfire exposure. Of 5 schools within the suburb boundary, 2 rank above the state average, and walkability is high.
Is Burwood a good suburb?
Burwood scores a A (77/100) on SuburbScan's Liveability grade — strong on schools, transit, and community, weaker on prices.
Above the state average
5 schools · 2 above peer schools · Top 22% in VIC
Very walkable
Walkability 77/100 · 15.9 km · 25 min drive to Melbourne
Above the state median
Median $1.45M · Less affordable than 94% of VIC
Moderate crime risk
Fire 0/100 · Crime 64/100 · Flood 35/100
Very advantaged
SEIFA decile 9/10 · median age 34 · 15,147 residents
Liveability Rating
77 / 100 · Ranked #83 in VICEach bar is Burwood's rank among VIC suburbs, from 0 to 100 (higher is better).
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Our score
77 / 100
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Median House Price
Public listings dataBurwood's house market is moving lower: the median sale price reached $1.45 million, roughly 14% below where it sat a year earlier.
Houses
$1,447,750
10% below its 8 neighbours (median $1,600,000)
Based on 170 recorded sales in the last 24 months.
Typically sold in 26 days — median across 113 sales that recorded a listing period
By bedrooms
- 3 bed 68 sales $1.3M
- 4 bed 68 sales $1.57M
- 5 bed 20 sales $1.64M
Units
$688,000
In line with its 8 neighbours (median $700,000)
Based on 147 recorded sales in the last 24 months.
Typically sold in 29 days — median across 73 sales that recorded a listing period
By bedrooms
- 1 bed 31 sales $175K
- 2 bed 69 sales $615K
- 3 bed 31 sales $990K
- 4 bed 13 sales $1.2M
Currently for Sale
Last 6 monthsHouses in Burwood are currently listed at around $1.25 million on average. Based on 123 houses listed in the past six months.
Houses
$1.25M
123 houses listed in the last 6 months.
Units
$614K
46 units listed in the last 6 months.
169 of the suburb's 5,462 dwellings (3.1%) were listed for sale in the last 6 months.
Rental Market
Advertised rents · last 6 monthsHouses in Burwood rent for around $805 a week on average, based on 70 houses listed for rent in the past six months.
Houses
$805/wk
5% below its 8 neighbours (median $850/wk)
70 houses advertised for rent in the last 6 months.
Units
$320/wk
48% below its 6 neighbours (median $620/wk)
77 units advertised for rent in the last 6 months.
147 rentals advertised against an estimated 2,152 rented homes (6.8%) in the last 6 months.
Rental affordability
June quarter 2025102 Moderately unaffordable · the average rental household in this region would pay about 29% of its income on the median rent in postcode 3125.
SGS Rental Affordability Index: a score of 100 means rent takes 30% of income, the usual housing-stress line; lower scores are less affordable. "Region" is the capital city or the rest of the state.
Gross rental yield
Indicative$805/week ($42,000 a year) on a $1.25 million median
$320/week ($17,000 a year) on a $614,000 median
Gross yield — before strata, rates, management, insurance and vacancy. Calculated from median advertised rents and median asking prices over the last 6 months. How we calculate.
Short-Stay Rentals
52 active Airbnb listings: 22 whole homes and 30 rooms. Whole homes are about 0.3% of the suburb's homes.
Airbnb only, as at Jun 2026; other platforms are not included. Active means reviewed in the past 12 months. The share is against private dwellings at the 2021 Census.
Is Burwood safe? Crime statistics
2026Crime in Burwood sits in the moderate band, with 784 incidents recorded in 2026 — down roughly 15% on the prior year.
784 offences
14.7% since 2025Crime Trend
Serious Road Crashes
2021–202549 crashes
where someone was killed or admitted to hospital, 3 of them fatal
Where they happened
Crashes are counted where they happened, so a main road through the suburb carries people passing through; this is not a measure of risk to residents. Roads are listed with 3 or more serious crashes.
Schools
Five schools serve Burwood, and results are mixed — some outperforming peer-suburb schools, some below. Presbyterian Ladies' College and Wattle Park Primary School lead the pack.
- • 3,059 students across 4 schools (avg 765)
- • Sectors: 2 Catholic, 2 Independent, 1 Government
- • ICSEA 1067-1207, median 1140 (well above the national baseline of 1000)
- • Largest: Presbyterian Ladies' College (1,530 students)
Primary
Combined
Universities nearby
- 0.0 kmDeakin University, Melbourne Burwood CampusDeakin University · 204 courses
- 7.0 kmMonash CaulfieldMonash University · 198 courses
- 7.5 kmHawthorn Campus John Street Hawthorn Swinburne UniversitySwinburne University of Technology · 402 courses
9.3% of residents here are full-time university students aged 15–24.
Distance is measured to the suburb centre. A campus nearby does not by itself mean a student rental market — most suburbs within a few kilometres of one have a student share close to the national norm, and the figure above is what tells them apart.
Walkability
Burwood is very walkable on foot — at 77/100, most daily errands can be done on foot.
Public transport
Weekday and weekend service frequency across every stop inside Burwood.
- Peak (7-9am + 5-7pm)
- 401.8 arrivals/hr
- Off-peak weekday
- 340.0 arrivals/hr
- Saturday
- 222.7 arrivals/hr
- Median peak wait
- 0 min
- Span of service
- 20.6 hours
Scheduled service only, based on the 21 October 2026 timetable. Reliability (delays, cancellations) not measured.
NBN connectivity
The internet access technology available across NBN premises in Burwood.
- Full-fibre (FTTP) share
- 26%
- Premises covered
- 7,810
NBN Co fixed-line and fixed-wireless premises, as at 30 December 2025. Higher-quality technologies (full fibre) score above copper, wireless, and satellite. Actual speeds depend on your plan.
Amenities
Whitehorse: council population
The three add up to the change above. These are council-wide figures from the ABS, not figures for this suburb alone — this suburb's own population is in the census section above.
Socio-economic profile
The ABS scores 33 small areas inside this suburb and averages them into the single decile above. They fall into 7 different deciles — a wide range, so parts of this suburb rank well above the average and parts well below it.
Burwood is home to about 15,100 residents, with a median age of 34, broadly in line with the national figure. Median household income runs at $88,000 a year, with unemployment at 7.2%.
2021 Census · change since 2016
Population
15,147
Median Age
34
Median Household Income
$87,568/yr
Census Median Rent
$411/wk
Census Median Mortgage
$2,500/mo
Avg Household Size
2.5
Median Personal Income
$35,412/yr
Unemployment Rate
7.2%
Unoccupied Dwellings
17.4%
Total Dwellings
5,462
Owner-Occupier Rate
60.6%
Houses
57.9%
Rental Stress
24.4%
Mortgage Stress
34.3%
Work From Home
36.7%
Dwelling Types
Property Ownership
221 rented from a state or territory housing authority and 38 from a community housing provider, as a share of the 2,031 rented dwellings above — not of all dwellings.
Demographics
- Born in Australia
- 48.7%
- English Spoken at Home
- 50.5%
- Employment Rate
- 56.5%
- Completed Year 12
- 63.4%
Occupations
Religion
Country of Birth (overseas)
Largest overseas birthplaces, as a share of all residents.
When They Arrived
Share of all residents by the year they arrived in Australia. Periods cover different numbers of years, so compare the shape rather than the bar widths.
2,275 residents (15.0%) arrived since 2016. Australia’s borders were closed to most arrivals from March 2020, so the last two years of that period are much smaller than the ones before them — nationally 260,799 people arrived in 2019 against 28,521 in 2021.
Where New Residents Came From
Where residents aged five and over lived five years before the 2021 Census, for those who lived somewhere else.
Top places newcomers came from, as a share of the 14,545 residents aged five and over. Areas are ABS statistical regions. Small counts are approximate: the ABS adjusts every figure slightly to protect privacy.
Languages Spoken at Home
Top languages other than English, as a share of all residents.
Age Distribution
Family & Household Composition
Commute to Work
17% of employed residents work in a capital's city centre (1,263 of 7,410).
City centre: the ABS area around each capital's CBD, such as Sydney Inner City or Perth City (which takes in Subiaco and Leederville). 2021 Census place of work.
Local Jobs
People who work in this suburb against employed people who live here, 2021 Census.
About 9,142 people work here; 7,410 employed residents live here.
Roughly as many jobs as working residents (1.2 per resident). At least 16% of the people who work here must live elsewhere.
Counts are by place of work and place of usual residence. The ABS counts jobs in zones; where a zone spans several places, its jobs are shared out by land use. The ABS also adjusts every figure slightly to protect privacy.
Education
Cars per Dwelling
Council Rates
Households face an average residential rates bill of $1,516 a year through Whitehorse based on 2024 figures.
How this land is zoned
- Residential 42%
- Commercial 28%
- Parks and recreation 15%
- Infrastructure and transport 12%
- Other and special use 2%
Rezoned since Oct 2025
- General Residential Zone → Precinct Zone · GC248, Jul 2026 105.8 ha
- Industrial 1 Zone → Precinct Zone · GC248, Jul 2026 24.0 ha
- Residential Growth Zone → Precinct Zone · GC248, Jul 2026 14.2 ha
- Neighbourhood Residential Zone → Precinct Zone · GC248, Jul 2026 7.7 ha
and 8 smaller changes
Land in this suburb moved from one zone to another by a planning scheme amendment (Vicmap Planning, CC BY 4.0). Exhibited amendments are proposals and can change or lapse.
Zoning sets what may be built, not what is there today. A single address can sit in a different zone to the suburb around it — the property page shows the zone for one address.
Building Approvals: Whitehorse
In the year to August 2026, 879 new dwellings were approved across Whitehorse. That mix is 469 houses and 410 units. Approvals are up 17.0% on the same period a year earlier.
New Homes Planned
New homes planned in this suburb: 272 homes
- Projects firmly planned 197 homes
- Projects likely to go ahead 75 homes
From the Victorian Government's Urban Development Program: growth-area land and approved lots (metropolitan 2025, regional June 2024) and projects of 10 or more homes in Melbourne (2025), by stage. Lots and homes are counted as published; a lot usually becomes one home.
Aboriginal Cultural Heritage
The Registered Aboriginal Party for this area is Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Cultural Heritage Aboriginal Corporation (appointed 2008).
Registered Aboriginal Parties are appointed by the Victorian Aboriginal Heritage Council under the Aboriginal Heritage Act 2006 as the primary guardians, keepers and knowledge holders of Aboriginal cultural heritage for their area. They are the body to contact about cultural heritage here.
Air Quality
CLEANPM2.5 averaged 4.3 µg/m³ in 2025 — below the WHO 2021 annual guideline (5 µg/m³).
From the Box Hill monitoring station, 3.0 km away.
Climate & Setting
from Scoresby Research Institute, 12.9 kmModerate rainfall — hot summers, mild winters.
- Elevation
- 55 m
- above sea level, at the suburb centre
- Distance to the ocean
- 12.0 km
- Annual rainfall
- 777 mm
- 105 rainy days
- Summer max (Jan)
- 26.9°C
- 10 days ≥ 35°C
- Winter min (Jul)
- 6.3°C
- 2 frost days ≤ 0°C
Elevation is the ground at the suburb centre, from Geoscience Australia's National Digital Elevation Model. Approximate — it reads high in dense built-up areas. It is a measure of height above sea level and not an indicator of flood risk, which depends on height above nearby waterways.
Industrial Emissions Nearby
2 facilities within 5 km- 4.3 kmHospitals (Except Psychiatric Hospitals)Top reported: Carbon monoxide · Oxides of Nitrogen · Particulate Matter ≤10.0 µm (PM10)
- 4.8 kmLaundry and Dry-Cleaning ServicesTop reported: Oxides of Nitrogen · Carbon monoxide · Particulate Matter ≤2.5 µm (PM2.5)
EV adoption
In postcode 3125, 261 of 11,083 registered light vehicles are battery-electric on 31 January 2025. A further 4.1% (455 vehicles) are hybrid or plug-in hybrid, taking the non-petrol, non-diesel share to 6.5%.
Rooftop solar
In postcode 3125, 1,337 rooftop-solar systems totalling 8.5 MW have been installed since 2001, against 6,411 dwellings recorded in the 2021 Census. 113 went up in the last year.
Counts every system certified since 2001, so a roof re-fitted with a newer system is counted twice, and small commercial systems are included alongside houses — useful for comparing postcodes, not an estimate of how many homes have working panels today.
2026 covers part of the year only, to 2026-07.
First Home Owner Grant
FY2026-27$10,000 for new homes priced up to $750,000.
The separate First Home Buyer Duty Reduction (stamp-duty concession) runs alongside this grant.
1 first-home grant was paid in postcode 3125 in 2025-26, rank 213 of 298 Victorian postcodes. The most was 86, in 2005-06.
Grants on new and established homes; established homes stopped qualifying in mid-2013.
Mortgage repayments
19 mortgage brokers are registered in this suburb.
Land transfer duty at the owner-occupier rate, and it excludes first home buyer concessions — those can cut it substantially or remove it entirely. Excludes legal, inspection and lender fees. Check with State Revenue Office Victoria
The First Home Owner Grant applies to newly built homes only, so it isn't available on an established purchase. A first home buyer building or buying new under $750,000 may qualify for $10,000 — see what qualifies with State Revenue Office Victoria.
At $1,447,750 this is $697,750 above the $750,000 First Home Owner Grant cap. A first home buyer may qualify for $10,000 on a newly built home — check eligibility with State Revenue Office Victoria.
A deposit under 20% usually attracts Lenders Mortgage Insurance, which this doesn't include.
Principal and interest over 30 years, fixed rate. Excludes fees, offset, redraw and LMI. Default rate is the median comparison rate across 1788 advertised products as at 2026-10-26 — indicative only, and not an offer. Your rate depends on the lender, your deposit and your circumstances. Not financial advice.
Federal Electorate
Currently held by Carina Garland Australian Labor Party
| Year | Winner | 2PP ALP | 2PP LNP | Swing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Carina Garland | 55.7% | 44.3% | +2.4 |
| 2022 | Carina Garland | 56.4% | 43.6% | -6.9 |
| 2019 | Gladys Liu | 49.4% | 50.6% | -2.3 |
Results are per division — federal electoral boundaries are redrawn periodically, so the history reflects this division's past, not necessarily the exact suburb's voters across time.
State Electorate
Currently held by Matt Fregon Australian Labor Party - Victorian Branch
Next state election: 28 November 2026.
| Year | Winner | Won with | 2PP ALP | 2PP LNP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Matt Fregon ALP | 56.1% | 56.1% | 43.9% |
Results are per district. Districts were last redrawn in 2021, so results from before then describe the district of that name, not necessarily this suburb's voters. Results: Victorian Electoral Commission, CC BY 4.0.
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Common questions about Burwood
Is Burwood a safe place to live?
Recorded crime in Burwood is moderate (64/100, ranked against other VIC suburbs on offences per resident).
What natural hazards affect Burwood?
Burwood has no recorded bushfire history. Flood overlays cover a low share of it (35/100). These are suburb-wide figures; check the address, as flood and bushfire exposure change street by street.
Is Burwood a good place to live?
Burwood has a SuburbScan Liveability grade of A (77/100), ranked against other VIC suburbs on school quality (25%), safety (25%), SEIFA socio-economic advantage (25%), walkability (15%) and CBD access (10%). Whether it suits you depends on what you weigh — each of those is on this page.
What is the population of Burwood?
Burwood, VIC had a population of 15,147 at the 2021 Australian Bureau of Statistics census.
What is the postcode for Burwood, VIC?
The postcode for Burwood, VIC is 3125.
How far is Burwood from Melbourne?
Burwood is 16 km from Melbourne CBD by road, about 25 minutes by car in normal traffic. Distance is the most-direct driving route, not straight-line.
What is the median household income in Burwood?
At the 2021 ABS Census, median household income in Burwood was $87,568 a year. It is the most recent suburb-level income figure until 2026 Census results are released in 2027.
What is the median weekly rent in Burwood?
The median advertised rent in Burwood is $805 a week for houses (70 listings) and $320 a week for units (77 listings), from rental listings over the last six months.
What is the median age in Burwood?
The median age of residents in Burwood was 34 at the 2021 ABS Census.
How are the schools in Burwood?
There are 5 schools inside the Burwood boundary: 2 above and 2 below similar schools on NAPLAN, compared with same-state, same-type schools of similar socio-educational advantage (ICSEA).
Is Burwood walkable?
Burwood scores 77/100 on the SuburbScan Walkability Score, making it very walkable. The score is a weighted average of public transport, schools, parks, supermarkets, GPs, pharmacies, childcare, and hospitals within walking distance.
What is the air quality in Burwood?
The nearest government air-quality monitoring station to Burwood (Box Hill) recorded a 2025 annual mean PM2.5 of 4.3 µg/m³. That puts Burwood below the WHO annual guideline of 5 µg/m³.
What is the weather like in Burwood?
At the nearest Bureau of Meteorology station to Burwood, Scoresby Research Institute (12.9 km away), summer days average 26.9°C, winter nights 6.3°C, 777 mm of rain a year over 105 rainy days, and 10 days a year above 35°C over 2006-2026.
Is the First Home Owner Grant available in Burwood?
First-home buyers in VIC may be eligible for $10,000 towards new homes with a purchase price up to $750,000. The grant is administered by State Revenue Office Victoria; confirm current eligibility before signing a contract — state rules and amounts can change.
What council does Burwood belong to?
Burwood sits within the Whitehorse local government area. Council rates, planning approvals, and waste collection fall under this LGA.
How much are council rates in Burwood?
The average residential rates bill through Whitehorse is $1,516 a year (2024). Every suburb in this LGA shares the same schedule — individual bills vary with land value.
How much is being built near Burwood?
Across Whitehorse, 879 new residential dwellings were approved in the year to August 2026 (source: ABS Building Approvals). That's up 17.0% on the same period a year earlier. These are LGA-level totals — every suburb in the council shares the same figure.
Which federal electorate is Burwood in?
Burwood sits within the federal Division of Chisholm, currently held by Carina Garland (Australian Labor Party).
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Data freshness
- Census · 2021
- Median sale prices · Oct 2026
- For-sale & rental market · Oct 2026
- Council rates · FY 2024–25
- Building approvals · Aug 2026
- Schools · 2025
- Public transport · Oct 2026
- NBN connectivity · Dec 2025
- Crime · 2026
- Road crashes · 2021–2025
- Air quality · 2025
- Climate · 2006–2026
- Socio-economic (SEIFA) · 2021
- EV adoption · Jan 2025
- First Home Owner Grant · Sep 2026
- Federal electorate · 2025
- Short-stay rentals · Jun 2026
- State electorate · 2022
- Amenities · Sep 2026
- Health & emergency facilities · Sep 2026
- Industrial emissions (NPI) · 2024/2025
- Coastal erosion · 1988–2025
- Aircraft noise · 2024
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