Located in Victoria, Pearcedale sits 61 km from Melbourne CBD, around 57 minutes by car. The suburb has 3,867 residents, a median age of 41, and a median household income of $104,468 per year. By household income, education, and employment patterns, it ranks in the top 40% nationally. The suburb grew 1.2% between 2016 and 2021. At the 2021 Census, households here paid a median rent of $400 per week and a median monthly mortgage of $2,020. Pearcedale is characterised by high flood risk and no recorded bushfire exposure. Of 2 schools within the suburb boundary, 1 ranks above the state average, and walkability is low.
Is Pearcedale a good suburb?
Pearcedale scores a B (56/100) on SuburbScan's Liveability grade — strong on community, weaker on transit.
Mixed results
2 schools · 1 above peer schools
Car-dependent
Walkability 19/100 · 60.6 km · 57 min drive to Melbourne
Around the state median
Median $882K
Moderate crime risk
Fire 0/100 · Crime 43/100 · Flood 65/100
Advantaged
SEIFA decile 7/10 · median age 41 · 3,867 residents
Liveability Rating
56 / 100 · Ranked #340 in VICEach bar is Pearcedale's rank among VIC suburbs, from 0 to 100 (higher is better). Scored on 4 of 5 factors: no school data, so the other factors carry its weight.
How do you rate the liveability in Pearcedale?
Local knowledge beats any dataset. Rate it and see what other residents think.
Our score
56 / 100
From schools, safety and socio-economic data — not opinion.
Residents say
…
Median House Price
Public listings dataPearcedale's house market is moving lower: the median sale price reached $882,000, about 7% below where it sat a year earlier.
Houses
$882,500
In line with its 6 neighbours (median $900,000)
Based on 68 recorded sales in the last 24 months.
Typically sold in 27 days — median across 21 sales that recorded a listing period
By bedrooms
- 3 bed 37 sales $780K
- 4 bed 23 sales $1.06M
- 5 bed 6 sales $1.39M
Land
$1,750,000
Based on 12 recorded sales in the last 24 months.
Typically sold in 58 days — median across 4 sales that recorded a listing period
Currently for Sale
Last 6 monthsHouses in Pearcedale are currently listed at around $1.54 million on average. Based on 10 houses listed in the past six months.
$1.54M
10 houses listed in the last 6 months.
10 of the suburb's 1,276 dwellings (0.8%) were listed for sale in the last 6 months.
Rental Market
Advertised rents · last 6 monthsHouses in Pearcedale rent for around $875 a week on average, based on 4 houses listed for rent in the past six months.
$875/wk
4 houses advertised for rent in the last 6 months.
4 rentals advertised against an estimated 125 rented homes (3.2%) in the last 6 months.
Rental affordability
June quarter 2025111 Moderately unaffordable · the average rental household in this region would pay about 27% of its income on the median rent in postcode 3912.
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$875/week ($46,000 a year) on a $1.54 million median
Based on a small sample (4 listings) — indicative only.
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
2 active Airbnb listings: 2 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 Pearcedale safe? Crime statistics
2026Crime in Pearcedale sits in the moderate band, with 111 incidents recorded in 2026 — down roughly 26% on the prior year.
111 offences
25.5% since 2025Crime Trend
Serious Road Crashes
2021–202536 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
Two schools serve Pearcedale, and the cohort skews above peer-suburb performance. Pearcedale Primary School leads the pack.
- • 679 students in one school (avg 679)
- • Largest: Pearcedale Primary School (679 students)
Primary
Walkability
Pearcedale is very car-dependent on foot — at 19/100, nearly all errands require a car.
Public transport
Weekday and weekend service frequency across every stop inside Pearcedale.
- Peak (7-9am + 5-7pm)
- 17.0 arrivals/hr
- Off-peak weekday
- 11.4 arrivals/hr
- Saturday
- 10.6 arrivals/hr
- Median peak wait
- 1 min
- Span of service
- 16.8 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 Pearcedale.
- Full-fibre (FTTP) share
- 39%
- Premises covered
- 1,451
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
Casey: 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 11 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.
Pearcedale is home to about 3,900 residents, with a median age of 41, broadly in line with the national figure. Median household income runs at $104,000 a year, with unemployment at 3.5%.
2021 Census · change since 2016
Population
3,867
Median Age
41
Median Household Income
$104,468/yr
Census Median Rent
$400/wk
Census Median Mortgage
$2,020/mo
Avg Household Size
2.9
Median Personal Income
$40,820/yr
Unemployment Rate
3.5%
Unoccupied Dwellings
3.9%
Total Dwellings
1,276
Owner-Occupier Rate
90.2%
Houses
96.6%
Rental Stress
19.9%
Mortgage Stress
23.2%
Work From Home
21.2%
Dwelling Types
Property Ownership
Demographics
- Born in Australia
- 84.5%
- English Spoken at Home
- 92.0%
- Employment Rate
- 64.5%
- Completed Year 12
- 35.7%
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.
22 residents (0.6%) 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 3,653 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
3% of employed residents work in a capital's city centre (63 of 2,038).
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 1,161 people work here; 2,038 employed residents live here.
Mostly a place people commute from: 0.6 jobs per working resident. At least 42% 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 $1,767 a year through Casey based on 2024 figures.
How this land is zoned
- Rural and farming 74%
- Environmental 17%
- Residential 3%
- Parks and recreation 3%
- Infrastructure and transport 2%
- Not zoned 1%
Planning zones cover 99% 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: Casey
In the year to August 2026, 3,412 new dwellings were approved across Casey. That mix is 2,854 houses and 558 units. Approvals are down 14.8% 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.
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, 24.0 km away.
Climate & Setting
from Frankston Beach, 12.8 kmwarm summers — mild winters.
- Elevation
- 22 m
- above sea level, at the suburb centre
- Distance to the ocean
- 3.4 km
- Near high-voltage lines
- 0.6% of addresses
- 10 within 100 m of an overhead line of 110 kV or more
- Annual rainfall
- —
- Summer max (Jan)
- 24.5°C
- 4 days ≥ 35°C
- Winter min (Jul)
- 8.3°C
- 0 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.
EV adoption
In postcode 3912, 87 of 13,637 registered light vehicles are battery-electric on 31 January 2025. A further 1.8% (240 vehicles) are hybrid or plug-in hybrid, taking the non-petrol, non-diesel share to 2.4%.
Rooftop solar
In postcode 3912, 2,438 rooftop-solar systems totalling 15.9 MW have been installed since 2001, against 5,852 dwellings recorded in the 2021 Census. 125 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 3912 in 2025-26, rank 213 of 298 Victorian postcodes. The most was 139, 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, 15 across postcode 3912.
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 $882,500 this is $132,500 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 Cassandra Fernando Australian Labor Party
| Year | Winner | 2PP ALP | 2PP LNP | Swing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Cassandra Fernando | 64.0% | 36.0% | +6.9 |
| 2022 | Cassandra Fernando | 57.1% | 42.9% | +1.5 |
| 2019 | Anthony Byrne | 58.7% | 41.3% | +1.2 |
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 Jordan Crugnale Australian Labor Party - Victorian Branch
Next state election: 28 November 2026.
| Year | Winner | Won with | 2PP ALP | 2PP LNP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Jordan Crugnale ALP | 50.2% | 50.2% | 49.8% |
| 2018 | Jordan Crugnale ALP | 52.4% | 52.4% | 47.6% |
| 2014 | Brian Paynter LP | 54.5% | 45.5% | 54.5% |
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.
Looking at a specific address in Pearcedale?
Every figure above is a suburb average, and an average smooths over the difference between a street of family homes and a block of flats. Look up one address and you get the census for the few hundred people around it, its own nearest schools and stops, and what the state has mapped for that block.
- The census for a few hundred neighbours, not all 3,867 residents
- Nearest and zoned schools, with the walk from that door
- Flood, bushfire and noise mapping, where the state publishes it
Free to look up. Subscribers see every section in full — $29/month.
Nearby suburbs
Langwarrin VIC 3910
Somerville VIC 3912
Cranbourne South VIC 3977
Baxter VIC 3911
Devon Meadows VIC 3977
Langwarrin South VIC 3911
Compare Pearcedale to another suburb
Side-by-side stats for any other VIC suburb — type a name and pick one.
Or jump straight to a nearby comparison:
Common questions about Pearcedale
Is Pearcedale a safe place to live?
Recorded crime in Pearcedale is moderate (43/100, ranked against other VIC suburbs on offences per resident).
What natural hazards affect Pearcedale?
Pearcedale has no recorded bushfire history. Flood overlays cover a moderate share of it (65/100). These are suburb-wide figures; check the address, as flood and bushfire exposure change street by street.
Is Pearcedale a good place to live?
Pearcedale has a SuburbScan Liveability grade of B (56/100), 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 Pearcedale?
Pearcedale, VIC had a population of 3,867 at the 2021 Australian Bureau of Statistics census.
What is the postcode for Pearcedale, VIC?
The postcode for Pearcedale, VIC is 3912.
How far is Pearcedale from Melbourne?
Pearcedale is 61 km from Melbourne CBD by road, about 57 minutes by car in normal traffic. Distance is the most-direct driving route, not straight-line.
What is the median household income in Pearcedale?
At the 2021 ABS Census, median household income in Pearcedale was $104,468 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 Pearcedale?
The median advertised rent in Pearcedale is $875 a week for houses (4 listings), from rental listings over the last six months.
What is the median age in Pearcedale?
The median age of residents in Pearcedale was 41 at the 2021 ABS Census.
How are the schools in Pearcedale?
There are 2 schools inside the Pearcedale boundary: 1 above similar schools on NAPLAN, compared with same-state, same-type schools of similar socio-educational advantage (ICSEA).
Is Pearcedale walkable?
Pearcedale scores 19/100 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 Pearcedale?
The nearest government air-quality monitoring station to Pearcedale (Dandenong) recorded a 2025 annual mean PM2.5 of 6.3 µg/m³ and PM10 of 20.8 µg/m³. That puts Pearcedale 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 Pearcedale?
At the nearest Bureau of Meteorology station to Pearcedale, Frankston Beach (12.8 km away), summer days average 24.5°C, winter nights 8.3°C, and 4 days a year above 35°C over 2006-2026.
Is the First Home Owner Grant available in Pearcedale?
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 Pearcedale belong to?
Pearcedale sits within the Casey local government area. Council rates, planning approvals, and waste collection fall under this LGA.
How much are council rates in Pearcedale?
The average residential rates bill through Casey is $1,767 a year (2024). Every suburb in this LGA shares the same schedule — individual bills vary with land value.
How much is being built near Pearcedale?
Across Casey, 3,412 new residential dwellings were approved in the year to August 2026 (source: ABS Building Approvals). That's down 14.8% 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 Pearcedale in?
Pearcedale sits within the federal Division of Holt, currently held by Cassandra Fernando (Australian Labor Party).
Search another suburb or address
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
Vintages show when each source's data is from. See all data sources.
Was the information on this page useful to you?
Thanks! Anything we could improve?
We hate spam as much as you do — we'll never use your email for marketing, and we might not be able to reply to everyone.
Thanks for your feedback! 🙏
Information shown is provided as-is from Australian government and commercial data sources.
Always verify with the relevant authority before making property decisions.
See Data Sources and How We Calculate for details.