Hastings VIC 3915
Located in Victoria, Hastings sits 72 km from Melbourne CBD, around 1 hour 5 minutes by car. The suburb has 10,369 residents, a median age of 41, and a median household income of $62,244 per year. By household income, education, and employment patterns, it ranks in the bottom 20% nationally. The suburb grew 7.9% between 2016 and 2021. At the 2021 Census, households here paid a median rent of $320 per week and a median monthly mortgage of $1,687. Hastings is characterised by high crime risk. 6 schools sit within the suburb boundary, and walkability is moderate.
Is Hastings a good suburb?
Hastings scores a D (24/100) on SuburbScan's Liveability grade — weaker on schools, prices, safety, and community.
Below the state average
6 schools
Some car dependence
Walkability 57/100 · 71.9 km · 66 min drive to Melbourne
Above the state median
Median $708K · Less affordable than 81% of VIC
High crime risk
Fire 35/100 · Crime 88/100 · Flood 58/100
Highly disadvantaged
SEIFA decile 2/10 · median age 41 · 10,369 residents
Liveability Rating
24 / 100 · Ranked #793 in VICEach bar is Hastings's rank among VIC suburbs, from 0 to 100 (higher is better).
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Our score
24 / 100
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Median House Price
Public listings dataHastings's house market is moving higher: the median sale price reached $708,000, about 6% above where it sat a year earlier.
Houses
$708,000
25% below its 3 neighbours (median $938,000)
Based on 218 recorded sales in the last 24 months.
Typically sold in 26 days — median across 103 sales that recorded a listing period
By bedrooms
- 2 bed 17 sales $605K
- 3 bed 140 sales $695K
- 4 bed 59 sales $841K
Units
$538,250
Based on 82 recorded sales in the last 24 months.
Typically sold in 36 days — median across 34 sales that recorded a listing period
By bedrooms
- 2 bed 61 sales $515K
- 3 bed 18 sales $631K
Currently for Sale
Last 6 monthsHouses in Hastings are currently listed at around $740,000 on average. Based on 100 houses listed in the past six months.
Houses
$740K
100 houses listed in the last 6 months.
Units
$545K
30 units listed in the last 6 months.
130 of the suburb's 4,187 dwellings (3.1%) were listed for sale in the last 6 months.
Rental Market
Advertised rents · last 6 monthsHouses in Hastings rent for around $580 a week on average, based on 22 houses listed for rent in the past six months.
Houses
$580/wk
22 houses advertised for rent in the last 6 months.
Units
$500/wk
12 units advertised for rent in the last 6 months.
34 rentals advertised against an estimated 1,348 rented homes (2.5%) in the last 6 months.
Rental affordability
June quarter 2025141 Acceptable · the average rental household in this region would pay about 21% of its income on the median rent in postcode 3915.
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$580/week ($30,000 a year) on a $740,000 median
$500/week ($26,000 a year) on a $545,000 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
11 active Airbnb listings: 11 whole homes and 0 rooms. Whole homes are about 0.2% 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 Hastings safe? Crime statistics
2026Crime in Hastings sits in the high band, with 1,276 incidents recorded in 2026 — down about 2% on the prior year.
1,276 offences
2.0% since 2025Crime Trend
Serious Road Crashes
2021–202555 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.
Coastal Erosion
Shoreline Change Summary
1988–2025Nearest Eroding Coastline
- Distance
- 1.7 km
- Rate
- -0.04 m/yr
- Net Movement
- 5.4 m
- Certainty
- good
Data Quality
Schools
Six schools serve Hastings, and the cohort is trailing peer-suburb performance.
- • 1,105 students across 4 schools (avg 276)
- • Sectors: 4 Government, 1 Independent, 1 Catholic
- • ICSEA 889-1008, median 939 (below the national baseline of 1000)
- • Largest: Western Port Secondary College (747 students)
Primary
Secondary
Walkability
Hastings is somewhat walkable on foot — at 57/100, a short cluster of errands work on foot but most trips still benefit from a car. Within the suburb there are 3 supermarkets, 21 parks and 7 cafes to anchor that walking radius.
Public transport
Weekday and weekend service frequency across every stop inside Hastings.
- Peak (7-9am + 5-7pm)
- 45.8 arrivals/hr
- Off-peak weekday
- 39.6 arrivals/hr
- Saturday
- 33.2 arrivals/hr
- Median peak wait
- 1 min
- Span of service
- 17.6 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 Hastings.
- Full-fibre (FTTP) share
- 45%
- Premises covered
- 5,700
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
Mornington Peninsula: 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 21 small areas inside this suburb and averages them into the single decile above. They fall into 6 different deciles — a wide range, so parts of this suburb rank well above the average and parts well below it.
Hastings is home to about 10,400 residents, with a median age of 41, broadly in line with the national figure. Median household income runs at $62,000 a year, with unemployment at 4.5%.
2021 Census · change since 2016
Population
10,369
Median Age
41
Median Household Income
$62,244/yr
Census Median Rent
$320/wk
Census Median Mortgage
$1,687/mo
Avg Household Size
2.3
Median Personal Income
$33,228/yr
Unemployment Rate
4.5%
Unoccupied Dwellings
6.1%
Total Dwellings
4,187
Owner-Occupier Rate
67.8%
Houses
72.8%
Rental Stress
26.7%
Mortgage Stress
32.5%
Work From Home
13.3%
Dwelling Types
Property Ownership
237 rented from a state or territory housing authority and 40 from a community housing provider, as a share of the 1,290 rented dwellings above — not of all dwellings.
Demographics
- Born in Australia
- 76.0%
- English Spoken at Home
- 88.0%
- Employment Rate
- 48.9%
- Completed Year 12
- 31.4%
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.
127 residents (1.2%) 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 9,768 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
2% of employed residents work in a capital's city centre (73 of 4,143).
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 5,151 people work here; 4,143 employed residents live here.
Roughly as many jobs as working residents (1.2 per resident). At least 19% 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 $1,659 a year through Mornington Peninsula based on 2024 figures.
How this land is zoned
- Other and special use 31%
- Residential 27%
- Rural and farming 24%
- Infrastructure and transport 5%
- Parks and recreation 4%
- Industrial 3%
- Commercial 2%
- Not zoned 3%
Planning zones cover 97% of the suburb's area. The rest is unzoned land such as water or road reserve.
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: Mornington Peninsula
In the year to August 2026, 791 new dwellings were approved across Mornington Peninsula. That mix is 511 houses and 280 units. Approvals are up 9.2% on the same period a year earlier.
Aboriginal Cultural Heritage
The Registered Aboriginal Party for this area is Bunurong Land Council Aboriginal Corporation (appointed 2017).
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.
Climate & Setting
from Cerberus, 7.5 kmModerate rainfall — warm summers, mild winters.
- Elevation
- 10 m
- above sea level, at the suburb centre
- Distance to the ocean
- 1.1 km
- Annual rainfall
- 696 mm
- 106 rainy days
- Summer max (Jan)
- 24.5°C
- 7 days ≥ 35°C
- Winter min (Jul)
- 6.5°C
- 3 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
4 facilities within 5 km- 1.0 kmPetroleum Product WholesalingTop reported: Total Volatile Organic Compounds · Xylenes (individual or mixed isomers) · Toluene (methylbenzene)
- 2.1 kmPetroleum Product WholesalingTop reported: Total Volatile Organic Compounds · n-Hexane · Benzene
- 2.4 kmMetal Coating and FinishingTop reported: Carbon monoxide · Oxides of Nitrogen · Total Volatile Organic Compounds
- 2.8 kmOil and Gas ExtractionTop reported: Oxides of Nitrogen · Total Volatile Organic Compounds · Carbon monoxide
EV adoption
In postcode 3915, 32 of 8,712 registered light vehicles are battery-electric on 31 January 2025. A further 1.6% (135 vehicles) are hybrid or plug-in hybrid, taking the non-petrol, non-diesel share to 1.9%.
Rooftop solar
In postcode 3915, 1,607 rooftop-solar systems totalling 11.1 MW have been installed since 2001, against 4,576 dwellings recorded in the 2021 Census. 79 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 3915 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
2 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 $708,000 this is under 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 Zoe Mckenzie Liberal
| Year | Winner | 2PP ALP | 2PP LNP | Swing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Zoe Mckenzie | 45.2% | 54.8% | +1.4 |
| 2022 | Zoe Mckenzie | 43.3% | 56.7% | +1.1 |
| 2019 | Greg Hunt | 44.4% | 55.6% | -1.4 |
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 Paul Mercurio Australian Labor Party - Victorian Branch
Next state election: 28 November 2026.
| Year | Winner | Won with | 2PP ALP | 2PP LNP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Paul Mercurio ALP | 51.4% | 51.4% | 48.6% |
| 2018 | Neale Burgess LP | 51.1% | 48.9% | 51.1% |
| 2014 | Neale Burgess LP | 51.2% | 42.4% | 57.6% |
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 Hastings
Is Hastings a safe place to live?
Recorded crime in Hastings is high (88/100, ranked against other VIC suburbs on offences per resident). Offences against shops, venues and visitors are divided by the people who live here, so suburbs with large daytime or visitor populations rank higher than living there may feel.
What natural hazards affect Hastings?
Hastings has a low recorded bushfire history (35/100, ranked against every Australian suburb with any fire history). Flood overlays cover a moderate share of it (58/100). These are suburb-wide figures; check the address, as flood and bushfire exposure change street by street.
Is Hastings a good place to live?
Hastings has a SuburbScan Liveability grade of D (24/100), 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 Hastings?
Hastings, VIC had a population of 10,369 at the 2021 Australian Bureau of Statistics census.
What is the postcode for Hastings, VIC?
The postcode for Hastings, VIC is 3915.
How far is Hastings from Melbourne?
Hastings is 72 km from Melbourne CBD by road, about 66 minutes by car in normal traffic. Distance is the most-direct driving route, not straight-line.
What is the median household income in Hastings?
At the 2021 ABS Census, median household income in Hastings was $62,244 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 Hastings?
The median advertised rent in Hastings is $580 a week for houses (22 listings) and $500 a week for units (12 listings), from rental listings over the last six months.
What is the median age in Hastings?
The median age of residents in Hastings was 41 at the 2021 ABS Census.
Is Hastings at risk of bushfire?
Hastings has a low recorded bushfire history (35/100). 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 Hastings?
There are 6 schools inside the Hastings boundary: 2 at and 2 below similar schools on NAPLAN, compared with same-state, same-type schools of similar socio-educational advantage (ICSEA).
Is Hastings walkable?
Hastings scores 57/100 on the SuburbScan Walkability Score, making it somewhat walkable. The score is a weighted average of public transport, schools, parks, supermarkets, GPs, pharmacies, childcare, and hospitals within walking distance.
What is the weather like in Hastings?
At the nearest Bureau of Meteorology station to Hastings, Cerberus (7.5 km away), summer days average 24.5°C, winter nights 6.5°C, 696 mm of rain a year over 106 rainy days, and 7 days a year above 35°C over 2006-2026.
Is the First Home Owner Grant available in Hastings?
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 Hastings belong to?
Hastings sits within the Mornington Peninsula local government area. Council rates, planning approvals, and waste collection fall under this LGA.
How much are council rates in Hastings?
The average residential rates bill through Mornington Peninsula is $1,659 a year (2024). Every suburb in this LGA shares the same schedule — individual bills vary with land value.
How much is being built near Hastings?
Across Mornington Peninsula, 791 new residential dwellings were approved in the year to August 2026 (source: ABS Building Approvals). That's up 9.2% 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 Hastings in?
Hastings sits within the federal Division of Flinders, currently held by Zoe Mckenzie (Liberal).
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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
- 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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