Keilor Downs VIC 3038
Located in Victoria, Keilor Downs sits 24 km from Melbourne CBD, around 28 minutes by car. The suburb has 9,857 residents, a median age of 43, and a median household income of $81,016 per year. By household income, education, and employment patterns, it ranks in the lower-middle tier nationally. The suburb fell 1.4% between 2016 and 2021. At the 2021 Census, households here paid a median rent of $360 per week and a median monthly mortgage of $1,733. Keilor Downs is characterised by no recorded bushfire exposure. Of 4 schools within the suburb boundary, 1 ranks above the state average, and walkability is high.
Is Keilor Downs a good suburb?
Keilor Downs scores a B (62/100) on SuburbScan's Liveability grade — strong on transit.
Mixed results
4 schools · 1 above peer schools
Very walkable
Walkability 84/100 · 24.4 km · 28 min drive to Melbourne
Around the state median
Median $868K
Moderate crime risk
Fire 0/100 · Crime 58/100 · Flood 35/100
Below-average income
SEIFA decile 4/10 · median age 43 · 9,857 residents
Liveability Rating
62 / 100 · Ranked #244 in VICEach bar is Keilor Downs's rank among VIC suburbs, from 0 to 100 (higher is better).
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Our score
62 / 100
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Median House Price
Public listings dataKeilor Downs's house market is moving higher: the median sale price reached $868,000, about 3% above where it sat a year earlier.
Houses
$868,500
22% above its 6 neighbours (median $711,500)
Based on 156 recorded sales in the last 24 months.
Typically sold in 25 days — median across 90 sales that recorded a listing period
By bedrooms
- 3 bed 78 sales $793K
- 4 bed 63 sales $922K
- 5 bed 8 sales $903K
Units
$622,000
21% above its 3 neighbours (median $515,000)
Based on 23 recorded sales in the last 24 months.
Typically sold in 23 days — median across 9 sales that recorded a listing period
By bedrooms
- 2 bed 6 sales $556K
- 3 bed 15 sales $635K
Currently for Sale
Last 6 monthsHouses in Keilor Downs are currently listed at around $802,000 on average. Based on 26 houses listed in the past six months.
$802K
26 houses listed in the last 6 months.
27 of the suburb's 3,386 dwellings (0.8%) were listed for sale in the last 6 months.
Rental Market
Advertised rents · last 6 monthsHouses in Keilor Downs rent for around $570 a week on average, based on 24 houses listed for rent in the past six months.
$570/wk
8% above its 4 neighbours (median $530/wk)
24 houses advertised for rent in the last 6 months.
26 rentals advertised against an estimated 630 rented homes (4.1%) in the last 6 months.
Rental affordability
June quarter 2025118 Moderately unaffordable · the average rental household in this region would pay about 25% of its income on the median rent in postcode 3038.
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$570/week ($30,000 a year) on a $802,000 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
9 active Airbnb listings: 7 whole homes and 2 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 Keilor Downs safe? Crime statistics
2026Crime in Keilor Downs sits in the moderate band, with 446 incidents recorded in 2026 — down about 3% on the prior year.
446 offences
2.8% since 2025Crime Trend
Serious Road Crashes
2021–202531 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
Four schools serve Keilor Downs, and results are mixed — some outperforming peer-suburb schools, some below. Keilor Downs Secondary College leads the pack.
- • 2,301 students across 4 schools (avg 575)
- • Sectors: 3 Government, 1 Catholic
- • ICSEA 985-1059, median 1012 (around the national baseline of 1000)
- • Largest: Keilor Downs Secondary College (1,223 students)
Primary
Secondary
Walkability
Keilor Downs is very walkable on foot — at 84/100, most daily errands can be done on foot.
Public transport
Weekday and weekend service frequency across every stop inside Keilor Downs.
- Peak (7-9am + 5-7pm)
- 98.0 arrivals/hr
- Off-peak weekday
- 69.9 arrivals/hr
- Saturday
- 45.3 arrivals/hr
- Median peak wait
- 0 min
- Span of service
- 16.5 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 Keilor Downs.
- Full-fibre (FTTP) share
- 3%
- Premises covered
- 3,906
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
Brimbank: 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 29 small areas inside this suburb and averages them into the single decile above. They fall into 4 different deciles — a wide range, so parts of this suburb rank well above the average and parts well below it.
Keilor Downs is home to about 9,900 residents, with a median age of 43, a touch above the national 38. Median household income runs at $81,000 a year, with unemployment at 6.8%.
2021 Census · change since 2016
Population
9,857
Median Age
43
Median Household Income
$81,016/yr
Census Median Rent
$360/wk
Census Median Mortgage
$1,733/mo
Avg Household Size
2.8
Median Personal Income
$30,472/yr
Unemployment Rate
6.8%
Unoccupied Dwellings
4.6%
Total Dwellings
3,386
Owner-Occupier Rate
81.4%
Houses
85.3%
Rental Stress
23.1%
Mortgage Stress
25.7%
Work From Home
23.8%
Dwelling Types
Property Ownership
116 rented from a state or territory housing authority and 8 from a community housing provider, as a share of the 614 rented dwellings above — not of all dwellings.
Demographics
- Born in Australia
- 54.1%
- English Spoken at Home
- 46.9%
- Employment Rate
- 50.8%
- Completed Year 12
- 46.0%
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.
329 residents (3.3%) 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 9,374 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
16% of employed residents work in a capital's city centre (675 of 4,240).
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 1,768 people work here; 4,240 employed residents live here.
Mostly a place people commute from: 0.4 jobs per working resident. At least 58% 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 $1,847 a year through Brimbank based on 2024 figures.
How this land is zoned
- Residential 70%
- Parks and recreation 19%
- Infrastructure and transport 8%
- Commercial 3%
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: Brimbank
In the year to August 2026, 670 new dwellings were approved across Brimbank. That mix is 233 houses and 437 units. Approvals are up 39.7% on the same period a year earlier.
New Homes Planned
New homes planned in this suburb: 29 homes
- Projects firmly planned 29 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
This station does not measure fine particles (PM2.5).
PM10 averaged 18.9 µg/m³. Days over the limit in 2025: PM10 0.
From the Footscray monitoring station, 11.2 km away.
Climate & Setting
from Melbourne Airport, 6.6 kmModerate rainfall — hot summers, mild winters.
- Elevation
- 88 m
- above sea level, at the suburb centre
- Distance to the ocean
- 16.1 km
- Annual rainfall
- 518 mm
- 81 rainy days
- Summer max (Jan)
- 26.7°C
- 12 days ≥ 35°C
- Winter min (Jul)
- 6.0°C
- 1 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
3 facilities within 5 km- 3.7 kmWaste Remediation and Materials Recovery ServicesTop reported: Zinc and compounds · Lead & compounds · Chromium (III) compounds
- 4.4 kmHospitals (Except Psychiatric Hospitals)Top reported: Oxides of Nitrogen · Carbon monoxide · Particulate Matter ≤2.5 µm (PM2.5)
- 4.6 kmBasic Organic Chemical ManufacturingTop reported: Total Volatile Organic Compounds · Toluene (methylbenzene) · Acetone
EV adoption
In postcode 3038, 163 of 20,525 registered light vehicles are battery-electric on 31 January 2025. A further 2.6% (539 vehicles) are hybrid or plug-in hybrid, taking the non-petrol, non-diesel share to 3.4%.
Rooftop solar
In postcode 3038, 3,309 rooftop-solar systems totalling 20.0 MW have been installed since 2001, against 9,304 dwellings recorded in the 2021 Census. 183 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.
3 first-home grants were paid in postcode 3038 in 2025-26, rank 155 of 298 Victorian postcodes. The most was 170, in 2001-02.
Grants on new and established homes; established homes stopped qualifying in mid-2013.
Mortgage repayments
3 mortgage brokers are registered in this suburb, 23 across postcode 3038.
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 $868,500 this is $118,500 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 Alice Jordan-Baird Australian Labor Party
| Year | Winner | 2PP ALP | 2PP LNP | Swing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Alice Jordan-Baird | 60.3% | 39.7% | +0.3 |
| 2022 | Brendan O'Connor | 60.0% | 40.0% | +4.3 |
| 2019 | Brendan O'Connor | 65.4% | 34.6% | +3.1 |
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 Natalie Suleyman Australian Labor Party - Victorian Branch
Next state election: 28 November 2026.
| Year | Winner | Won with | 2PP ALP | 2PP LNP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Natalie Suleyman ALP | 59.6% | 59.6% | 40.4% |
| 2018 | Natalie Suleyman ALP | 59.7% | 71.5% | 28.5% |
| 2014 | Natalie Suleyman ALP | 56.4% | 67.5% | 32.5% |
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
- Flood, bushfire and noise mapping, where the state publishes it
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Common questions about Keilor Downs
Is Keilor Downs a safe place to live?
Recorded crime in Keilor Downs is moderate (58/100, ranked against other VIC suburbs on offences per resident).
What natural hazards affect Keilor Downs?
Keilor Downs 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 Keilor Downs a good place to live?
Keilor Downs has a SuburbScan Liveability grade of B (62/100), 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 Keilor Downs?
Keilor Downs, VIC had a population of 9,857 at the 2021 Australian Bureau of Statistics census.
What is the postcode for Keilor Downs, VIC?
The postcode for Keilor Downs, VIC is 3038.
How far is Keilor Downs from Melbourne?
Keilor Downs is 24 km from Melbourne CBD by road, about 28 minutes by car in normal traffic. Distance is the most-direct driving route, not straight-line.
What is the median household income in Keilor Downs?
At the 2021 ABS Census, median household income in Keilor Downs was $81,016 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 Keilor Downs?
The median advertised rent in Keilor Downs is $570 a week for houses (24 listings), from rental listings over the last six months.
What is the median age in Keilor Downs?
The median age of residents in Keilor Downs was 43 at the 2021 ABS Census.
How are the schools in Keilor Downs?
There are 4 schools inside the Keilor Downs boundary: 1 above, 1 at, and 2 below similar schools on NAPLAN, compared with same-state, same-type schools of similar socio-educational advantage (ICSEA).
Is Keilor Downs walkable?
Keilor Downs scores 84/100 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 weather like in Keilor Downs?
At the nearest Bureau of Meteorology station to Keilor Downs, Melbourne Airport (6.6 km away), summer days average 26.7°C, winter nights 6°C, 518 mm of rain a year over 81 rainy days, and 12 days a year above 35°C over 2006-2026.
Is the First Home Owner Grant available in Keilor Downs?
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 Keilor Downs belong to?
Keilor Downs sits within the Brimbank local government area. Council rates, planning approvals, and waste collection fall under this LGA.
How much are council rates in Keilor Downs?
The average residential rates bill through Brimbank is $1,847 a year (2024). Every suburb in this LGA shares the same schedule — individual bills vary with land value.
How much is being built near Keilor Downs?
Across Brimbank, 670 new residential dwellings were approved in the year to August 2026 (source: ABS Building Approvals). That's up 39.7% 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 Keilor Downs in?
Keilor Downs sits within the federal Division of Gorton, currently held by Alice Jordan-Baird (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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