Officer VIC 3809
Located in Victoria, Officer sits 54 km from Melbourne CBD, around 50 minutes by car. The suburb has 18,503 residents, a median age of 31, and a median household income of $110,500 per year. On socioeconomic measures it sits in the top 40% nationally. Population more than tripled from 2016 to 2021. The 2021 Census recorded a median rent of $396 per week and a median monthly mortgage of $2,000. The area shows high crime risk and high bushfire risk. Of 15 schools within the suburb boundary, 2 rank above the state average, and walkability is moderate.
Is Officer a good suburb?
Officer scores a C (42/100) on SuburbScan's Liveability grade — strong on prices and community, weaker on safety.
Mixed results
15 schools · 2 above peer schools
Some car dependence
Walkability 50/100 · 53.9 km · 50 min drive to Melbourne
More affordable than most
Median $755K · More affordable than 84% of VIC
High crime risk
Fire 68/100 · Crime 73/100 · Flood 61/100
Advantaged
SEIFA decile 8/10 · median age 31 · 18,503 residents
Liveability Rating
42 / 100 · Ranked #532 in VICEach bar is Officer's rank among VIC suburbs, from 0 to 100 (higher is better).
How do you rate the liveability in Officer?
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Our score
42 / 100
From schools, safety and socio-economic data — not opinion.
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Median House Price
Public listings dataOfficer's house market is moving higher: the median sale price reached $755,000, about 3% above where it sat a year earlier.
Houses
$755,000
In line with its 6 neighbours (median $760,000)
Based on 627 recorded sales in the last 24 months.
Typically sold in 35 days — median across 429 sales that recorded a listing period
By bedrooms
- 2 bed 25 sales $565K
- 3 bed 196 sales $670K
- 4 bed 325 sales $790K
- 5 bed 49 sales $1.01M
Land
$711,000
Based on 129 recorded sales in the last 24 months.
Typically sold in 47 days — median across 86 sales that recorded a listing period
Currently for Sale
Last 6 monthsHouses in Officer are currently listed at around $765,000 on average. Based on 299 houses listed in the past six months.
$765K
299 houses listed in the last 6 months.
301 of the suburb's 6,144 dwellings (4.9%) were listed for sale in the last 6 months.
Rental Market
Advertised rents · last 6 monthsHouses in Officer rent for around $620 a week on average, based on 215 houses listed for rent in the past six months.
Houses
$620/wk
In line with its 4 neighbours (median $620/wk)
215 houses advertised for rent in the last 6 months.
Units
$360/wk
3 units advertised for rent in the last 6 months.
218 rentals advertised against an estimated 1,751 rented homes (12.5%) in the last 6 months.
Rental affordability
June quarter 2025112 Moderately unaffordable · the average rental household in this region would pay about 27% of its income on the median rent in postcode 3809.
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$620/week ($32,000 a year) on a $765,000 median
Not enough unit sales and rentals in the window to calculate a yield.
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
20 active Airbnb listings: 12 whole homes and 8 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 Officer safe? Crime statistics
2026Crime in Officer sits in the high band, with 1,223 incidents recorded in 2026 — down about 4% on the prior year.
1,223 offences
4.4% since 2025Crime Trend
Serious Road Crashes
2021–202561 crashes
where someone was killed or admitted to hospital, 1 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
15 schools serve Officer, and results are mixed — some outperforming peer-suburb schools, some below. Officer Primary School and Officer Secondary College lead the pack.
- • 3,810 students across 9 schools (avg 423)
- • Sectors: 7 Government, 5 Independent, 3 Catholic
- • ICSEA 999-1082, median 1023 (above the national baseline of 1000)
- • Largest: Officer Secondary College (998 students)
Primary
Secondary
Combined
Universities nearby
1.9% 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
Officer is somewhat walkable on foot — at 50/100, a short cluster of errands work on foot but most trips still benefit from a car. Within the suburb there are 2 supermarkets, 11 parks and 8 cafes to anchor that walking radius.
Public transport
Weekday and weekend service frequency across every stop inside Officer.
- Peak (7-9am + 5-7pm)
- 51.5 arrivals/hr
- Off-peak weekday
- 51.9 arrivals/hr
- Saturday
- 48.1 arrivals/hr
- Median peak wait
- 1 min
- Span of service
- 21.2 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 Officer.
- Full-fibre (FTTP) share
- 92%
- Premises covered
- 6,447
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
Cardinia: 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 39 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.
Officer is home to about 18,500 residents, and skews young, with a median age of 31 against the national 38. Median household income runs at $110,000 a year, with unemployment at 4.4%.
2021 Census · change since 2016
Population
18,503
Median Age
31
Median Household Income
$110,500/yr
Census Median Rent
$396/wk
Census Median Mortgage
$2,000/mo
Avg Household Size
2.9
Median Personal Income
$50,440/yr
Unemployment Rate
4.4%
Unoccupied Dwellings
3.5%
Total Dwellings
6,144
Owner-Occupier Rate
71.5%
Houses
94.6%
Rental Stress
18.6%
Mortgage Stress
21.7%
Work From Home
25.3%
Dwelling Types
Property Ownership
Demographics
- Born in Australia
- 62.3%
- English Spoken at Home
- 64.4%
- Employment Rate
- 71.5%
- Completed Year 12
- 49.4%
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.
1,117 residents (6.0%) 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 16,643 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
9% of employed residents work in a capital's city centre (861 of 9,922).
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 3,591 people work here; 9,922 employed residents live here.
Mostly a place people commute from: 0.4 jobs per working resident. At least 63% 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 $1,880 a year through Cardinia based on 2024 figures.
How this land is zoned
- Residential 57%
- Environmental 21%
- Rural and farming 10%
- Parks and recreation 7%
- Infrastructure and transport 4%
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: Cardinia
In the year to August 2026, 1,323 new dwellings were approved across Cardinia. That mix is 1,196 houses and 127 units. Approvals are up 12.8% on the same period a year earlier.
New Homes Planned
New homes planned in this suburb: 7,837 homes
- Lots in approved subdivisions, not yet titled 1,761 homes
- Land zoned for housing, not yet subdivided 4,460 homes
- Land set aside, awaiting a precinct structure plan 1,616 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 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.
Air Quality
MODERATEPM2.5 averaged 6.3 µg/m³ in 2025 — below Australia's NEPM annual standard (8 µg/m³), slightly above the stricter WHO guideline (5 µg/m³). 1 day exceeded the daily threshold of 25 µg/m³.
PM10 averaged 20.8 µg/m³ · NO₂ averaged 0.98 pphm. Days over the limit in 2025: PM10 3 · NO₂ 0 · ozone 0.
From the Dandenong monitoring station, 20.2 km away.
Climate & Setting
from Dandenong, 18.6 kmModerate rainfall.
- Elevation
- 45 m
- above sea level, at the suburb centre
- Distance to the ocean
- 18.1 km
- Near high-voltage lines
- 0.6% of addresses
- 71 within 100 m of an overhead line of 110 kV or more
- Annual rainfall
- 781 mm
- 105 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
2 facilities within 5 km- 3.3 km
- 3.9 km
EV adoption
In postcode 3809, 259 of 16,943 registered light vehicles are battery-electric on 31 January 2025. A further 4.6% (781 vehicles) are hybrid or plug-in hybrid, taking the non-petrol, non-diesel share to 6.1%.
Rooftop solar
In postcode 3809, 4,221 rooftop-solar systems totalling 29.5 MW have been installed since 2001, against 6,821 dwellings recorded in the 2021 Census. 681 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.
253 first-home grants were paid in postcode 3809 in 2025-26, rank 7 of 298 Victorian postcodes. The most was 438, in 2018-19.
Grants on new and established homes; established homes stopped qualifying in mid-2013.
Mortgage repayments
26 mortgage brokers are registered in this suburb, 28 across postcode 3809.
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 $755,000 this is $5,000 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 2026-10-26 — 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 Jason Wood Liberal
| Year | Winner | 2PP ALP | 2PP LNP | Swing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Jason Wood | 47.9% | 52.1% | +6.4 |
| 2022 | Jason Wood | 41.3% | 58.7% | +3.6 |
| 2019 | Jason Wood | 45.5% | 54.5% | +1.3 |
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 Emma Vulin Australian Labor Party - Victorian Branch
Next state election: 28 November 2026.
| Year | Winner | Won with | 2PP ALP | 2PP LNP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Emma Vulin ALP | 50.4% | 50.4% | 49.6% |
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.
Looking at a specific address in Officer?
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- Nearest and zoned schools, with the walk from that door
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Nearby suburbs
Pakenham VIC 3810
Berwick VIC 3806
Clyde North VIC 3978
Beaconsfield VIC 3807
Beaconsfield Upper VIC 3808
Officer South VIC 3809
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Common questions about Officer
Is Officer a safe place to live?
Recorded crime in Officer is high (73/100, 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 Officer?
Officer has a moderate recorded bushfire history (68/100, ranked against every Australian suburb with any fire history). Flood overlays cover a moderate share of it (61/100). These are suburb-wide figures; check the address, as flood and bushfire exposure change street by street.
Is Officer a good place to live?
Officer has a SuburbScan Liveability grade of C (42/100), 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 Officer?
Officer, VIC had a population of 18,503 at the 2021 Australian Bureau of Statistics census.
What is the postcode for Officer, VIC?
The postcode for Officer, VIC is 3809.
How far is Officer from Melbourne?
Officer is 54 km from Melbourne CBD by road, about 50 minutes by car in normal traffic. Distance is the most-direct driving route, not straight-line.
What is the median household income in Officer?
At the 2021 ABS Census, median household income in Officer was $110,500 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 Officer?
The median advertised rent in Officer is $620 a week for houses (215 listings) and $360 a week for units (3 listings), from rental listings over the last six months.
What is the median age in Officer?
The median age of residents in Officer was 31 at the 2021 ABS Census.
Is Officer at risk of bushfire?
Officer has a moderate recorded bushfire history (68/100). 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 Officer?
There are 15 schools inside the Officer boundary: 2 above, 5 at, and 1 below similar schools on NAPLAN, compared with same-state, same-type schools of similar socio-educational advantage (ICSEA).
Is Officer walkable?
Officer scores 50/100 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 air quality in Officer?
The nearest government air-quality monitoring station to Officer (Dandenong) recorded a 2025 annual mean PM2.5 of 6.3 µg/m³ and PM10 of 20.8 µg/m³. That puts Officer below the Australian NEPM annual standard of 8 µg/m³ but above the stricter WHO guideline of 5 µg/m³.
What is the weather like in Officer?
At the nearest Bureau of Meteorology station to Officer, Dandenong (18.6 km away), 781 mm of rain a year over 105 rainy days over 2006-2026.
Is the First Home Owner Grant available in Officer?
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 Officer belong to?
Officer sits within the Cardinia local government area. Council rates, planning approvals, and waste collection fall under this LGA.
How much are council rates in Officer?
The average residential rates bill through Cardinia is $1,880 a year (2024). Every suburb in this LGA shares the same schedule — individual bills vary with land value.
How much is being built near Officer?
Across Cardinia, 1,323 new residential dwellings were approved in the year to August 2026 (source: ABS Building Approvals). That's up 12.8% 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 Officer in?
Officer sits within the federal Division of La Trobe, currently held by Jason Wood (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
- 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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