Located in Victoria, Gisborne sits 55 km from Melbourne CBD, around 47 minutes by car. The suburb has 10,142 residents, a median age of 39, and a median household income of $119,288 per year. On socioeconomic measures it sits in the top 20% nationally. Population grew 12.7% from 2016 to 2021. The 2021 Census recorded a median rent of $423 per week and a median monthly mortgage of $2,167. The area shows high bushfire risk. Of 4 schools within the suburb boundary, 1 ranks above the state average, and walkability is low.
Is Gisborne a good suburb?
Gisborne scores a C (48/100) on SuburbScan's Liveability grade — strong on community, weaker on transit and safety.
Mixed results
4 schools · 1 above peer schools
Car-dependent
Walkability 7/100 · 55.2 km · 47 min drive to Melbourne
Around the state median
Median $960K
High bushfire risk
Fire 77/100 · Crime 58/100 · Flood 37/100
Very advantaged
SEIFA decile 9/10 · median age 39 · 10,142 residents
Liveability Rating
48 / 100 · Ranked #468 in VICEach bar is Gisborne's rank among VIC suburbs, from 0 to 100 (higher is better).
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Our score
48 / 100
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Median House Price
Public listings dataGisborne's house market is moving higher: the median sale price reached $960,000, about 5% above where it sat a year earlier.
Houses
$960,000
35% above its 5 neighbours (median $711,000)
Based on 195 recorded sales in the last 24 months.
Typically sold in 46 days — median across 115 sales that recorded a listing period
By bedrooms
- 3 bed 56 sales $792K
- 4 bed 120 sales $1M
- 5 bed 11 sales $1.42M
Land
$710,000
Based on 28 recorded sales in the last 24 months.
Typically sold in 84 days — median across 16 sales that recorded a listing period
Currently for Sale
Last 6 monthsHouses in Gisborne are currently listed at around $1.05 million on average. Based on 129 houses listed in the past six months.
Houses
$1.05M
129 houses listed in the last 6 months.
Units
$630K
7 units listed in the last 6 months.
136 of the suburb's 3,444 dwellings (3.9%) were listed for sale in the last 6 months.
Rental Market
Advertised rents · last 6 monthsHouses in Gisborne rent for around $700 a week on average, based on 31 houses listed for rent in the past six months.
$700/wk
31 houses advertised for rent in the last 6 months.
33 rentals advertised against an estimated 558 rented homes (5.9%) in the last 6 months.
Rental affordability
June quarter 2025107 Moderately unaffordable · the average rental household in this region would pay about 28% of its income on the median rent in postcode 3437.
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$700/week ($36,000 a year) on a $1.05 million 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.
Is Gisborne safe? Crime statistics
2026Crime in Gisborne sits in the moderate band, with 469 incidents recorded in 2026 — up roughly 42% on the prior year.
469 offences
41.7% since 2025Crime Trend
Serious Road Crashes
2021–202528 crashes
where someone was killed or admitted to hospital, 2 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
Four schools serve Gisborne, and results are mixed — some outperforming peer-suburb schools, some below. Gisborne Primary School leads the pack.
- • 2,031 students across 4 schools (avg 508)
- • Sectors: 3 Government, 1 Catholic
- • ICSEA 1017-1066, median 1060 (above the national baseline of 1000)
- • Largest: Gisborne Secondary College (961 students)
Primary
Secondary
Walkability
Gisborne is very car-dependent on foot — at 7/100, nearly all errands require a car. Within the suburb there are 4 supermarkets, 12 parks and 3 cafes to anchor that walking radius.
We hold no public transport timetable data for this area, so public transport is not rated here and the score is spread across the remaining components. It is not counted as zero.
Public transport
Weekday and weekend service frequency across every stop inside Gisborne.
- Peak (7-9am + 5-7pm)
- 57.5 arrivals/hr
- Off-peak weekday
- 59.0 arrivals/hr
- Saturday
- 53.8 arrivals/hr
- Median peak wait
- 1 min
- Span of service
- 18.1 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 Gisborne.
- Full-fibre (FTTP) share
- 54%
- Premises covered
- 4,834
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
Macedon Ranges: 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 18 small areas inside this suburb and averages them into the single decile above. They fall into 5 different deciles — a wide range, so parts of this suburb rank well above the average and parts well below it.
Gisborne is home to about 10,100 residents, with a median age of 39, broadly in line with the national figure. Median household income runs at $119,000 a year, with unemployment at 3.0%.
2021 Census · change since 2016
Population
10,142
Median Age
39
Median Household Income
$119,288/yr
Census Median Rent
$423/wk
Census Median Mortgage
$2,167/mo
Avg Household Size
2.8
Median Personal Income
$50,232/yr
Unemployment Rate
3.0%
Unoccupied Dwellings
5.4%
Total Dwellings
3,444
Owner-Occupier Rate
83.8%
Houses
88.6%
Rental Stress
18.4%
Mortgage Stress
21.8%
Work From Home
29.7%
Dwelling Types
Property Ownership
31 rented from a state or territory housing authority and 17 from a community housing provider, as a share of the 546 rented dwellings above — not of all dwellings.
Demographics
- Born in Australia
- 83.9%
- English Spoken at Home
- 91.2%
- Employment Rate
- 66%
- Completed Year 12
- 45.4%
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.
86 residents (0.8%) 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 9,465 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
13% of employed residents work in a capital's city centre (660 of 5,141).
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 3,120 people work here; 5,141 employed residents live here.
Mostly a place people commute from: 0.6 jobs per working resident. At least 37% of employed residents must work outside the suburb.
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 $2,065 a year through Macedon Ranges based on 2024 figures.
How this land is zoned
- Parks and recreation 34%
- Environmental 26%
- Rural and farming 24%
- Residential 9%
- Infrastructure and transport 7%
Rezoned since Oct 2025
- Special Use Zone → General Residential Zone · C147macr, Jun 2026 1.1 ha
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: Macedon Ranges
In the year to August 2026, 331 new dwellings were approved across Macedon Ranges. That mix is 281 houses and 50 units. Approvals are up 79.5% on the same period a year earlier.
New Homes Planned
New homes planned in this suburb: 482 homes
- Lots in approved subdivisions, not yet titled 71 homes
- Land zoned for housing, not yet subdivided 411 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 4.4 µg/m³ in 2025 — below the WHO 2021 annual guideline (5 µg/m³).
Days over the limit in 2025: ozone 0.
From the Melton monitoring station, 21.8 km away.
Climate & Setting
from Macedon Forestry, 10.6 kmModerate rainfall.
- Elevation
- 478 m
- above sea level, at the suburb centre
- Distance to the ocean
- 45.9 km
- Annual rainfall
- 778 mm
- 74 rainy days
- Summer max (Jan)
- —
- Winter min (Jul)
- —
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
1 facility within 5 km- 4.5 kmSewerage and Drainage ServicesTop reported: Total Nitrogen · Ammonia (total) · Total Phosphorus
EV adoption
In postcode 3437, 139 of 10,622 registered light vehicles are battery-electric on 31 January 2025. A further 2.2% (237 vehicles) are hybrid or plug-in hybrid, taking the non-petrol, non-diesel share to 3.5%.
Rooftop solar
In postcode 3437, 2,145 rooftop-solar systems totalling 16.1 MW have been installed since 2001, against 4,176 dwellings recorded in the 2021 Census. 209 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.
12 first-home grants were paid in postcode 3437 in 2025-26, rank 77 of 298 Victorian postcodes. The most was 67, in 2009-10.
Grants on new and established homes; established homes stopped qualifying in mid-2013.
Mortgage repayments
11 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 $960,000 this is $210,000 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 2026-10-27 — 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 Rob Mitchell Australian Labor Party
| Year | Winner | 2PP ALP | 2PP LNP | Swing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Rob Mitchell | 54.8% | 45.2% | +0.9 |
| 2022 | Rob Mitchell | 53.3% | 46.7% | +2.0 |
| 2019 | Rob Mitchell | 55.0% | 45.0% | +1.0 |
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 Mary-Anne Thomas Australian Labor Party - Victorian Branch
Next state election: 28 November 2026.
| Year | Winner | Won with | 2PP ALP | 2PP LNP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Mary-Anne Thomas ALP | 59.5% | 59.5% | 40.5% |
| 2018 | Mary-Anne Thomas ALP | 50.6% | 63.2% | 36.8% |
| 2014 | Mary-Anne Thomas ALP | 53.8% | 53.8% | 46.2% |
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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- Nearest and zoned schools, with the walk from that door
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Nearby suburbs
Sunbury VIC 3429
Riddells Creek VIC 3431
New Gisborne VIC 3438
Macedon VIC 3440
Gisborne South VIC 3437
Toolern Vale VIC 3337
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Common questions about Gisborne
Is Gisborne a safe place to live?
Recorded crime in Gisborne is moderate (58/100, ranked against other VIC suburbs on offences per resident).
What natural hazards affect Gisborne?
Gisborne has a high recorded bushfire history (77/100, ranked against every Australian suburb with any fire history). Flood overlays cover a low share of it (37/100). These are suburb-wide figures; check the address, as flood and bushfire exposure change street by street.
Is Gisborne a good place to live?
Gisborne has a SuburbScan Liveability grade of C (48/100), 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 Gisborne?
Gisborne, VIC had a population of 10,142 at the 2021 Australian Bureau of Statistics census.
What is the postcode for Gisborne, VIC?
The postcode for Gisborne, VIC is 3437.
How far is Gisborne from Melbourne?
Gisborne is 55 km from Melbourne CBD by road, about 47 minutes by car in normal traffic. Distance is the most-direct driving route, not straight-line.
What is the median household income in Gisborne?
At the 2021 ABS Census, median household income in Gisborne was $119,288 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 Gisborne?
The median advertised rent in Gisborne is $700 a week for houses (31 listings), from rental listings over the last six months.
What is the median age in Gisborne?
The median age of residents in Gisborne was 39 at the 2021 ABS Census.
Is Gisborne at risk of bushfire?
Gisborne has a high recorded bushfire history (77/100). The score comes from Geoscience Australia's historical bushfire boundaries, with planned burns excluded: the area of recorded fires touching the suburb relative to its size, ranked against every Australian suburb with any fire history. It records where fire has burned, not a bushfire-prone land designation, which your council's planning scheme sets.
How are the schools in Gisborne?
There are 4 schools inside the Gisborne boundary: 1 above, 2 at, and 1 below similar schools on NAPLAN, compared with same-state, same-type schools of similar socio-educational advantage (ICSEA).
Is Gisborne walkable?
Gisborne scores 7/100 on the SuburbScan Walkability Score, making it very car-dependent. 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 Gisborne?
The nearest government air-quality monitoring station to Gisborne (Melton) recorded a 2025 annual mean PM2.5 of 4.4 µg/m³. That puts Gisborne below the WHO annual guideline of 5 µg/m³.
What is the weather like in Gisborne?
At the nearest Bureau of Meteorology station to Gisborne, Macedon Forestry (10.6 km away), 778 mm of rain a year over 74 rainy days over 2006-2026.
Is the First Home Owner Grant available in Gisborne?
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 Gisborne belong to?
Gisborne sits within the Macedon Ranges local government area. Council rates, planning approvals, and waste collection fall under this LGA.
How much are council rates in Gisborne?
The average residential rates bill through Macedon Ranges is $2,065 a year (2024). Every suburb in this LGA shares the same schedule — individual bills vary with land value.
How much is being built near Gisborne?
Across Macedon Ranges, 331 new residential dwellings were approved in the year to August 2026 (source: ABS Building Approvals). That's up 79.5% 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 Gisborne in?
Gisborne sits within the federal Division of Mcewen, currently held by Rob Mitchell (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
- 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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