Point Cook VIC 3030
Located in Victoria, Point Cook sits 28 km from Melbourne CBD, around 32 minutes by car. The suburb has 66,781 residents, a median age of 33, and a median household income of $124,384 per year. On socioeconomic measures it sits in the top 20% nationally. Population grew 33.8% from 2016 to 2021. The 2021 Census recorded a median rent of $400 per week and a median monthly mortgage of $2,115. The area shows high coastal erosion risk and high aircraft noise risk. 13 schools sit within the suburb boundary, and walkability is moderate.
Is Point Cook a good suburb?
Point Cook scores a B (60/100) on SuburbScan's Liveability grade — strong on transit, prices, and community, weaker on schools.
Trailing peer schools
13 schools
Very walkable
Walkability 65/100 · 28.4 km · 32 min drive to Melbourne
More affordable than most
Median $824K · More affordable than 87% of VIC
Moderate crime risk
Fire 16/100 · Crime 48/100 · Flood 34/100
Very advantaged
SEIFA decile 9/10 · median age 33 · 66,781 residents
Liveability Rating
60 / 100 · Ranked #283 in VICEach bar is Point Cook's rank among VIC suburbs, from 0 to 100 (higher is better).
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Our score
60 / 100
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Median House Price
Public listings dataPoint Cook's house market is moving higher: the median sale price reached $824,000, about 7% above where it sat a year earlier.
Houses
$824,000
29% above its 7 neighbours (median $640,000)
Based on 1313 recorded sales in the last 24 months.
Typically sold in 33 days — median across 819 sales that recorded a listing period
By bedrooms
- 2 bed 22 sales $545K
- 3 bed 337 sales $725K
- 4 bed 801 sales $850K
- 5 bed 111 sales $1.1M
- 6 bed 8 sales $1.2M
Land
$875,000
Based on 81 recorded sales in the last 24 months.
Typically sold in 48 days — median across 38 sales that recorded a listing period
Currently for Sale
Last 6 monthsHouses in Point Cook are currently listed at around $873,000 on average. Based on 636 houses listed in the past six months.
Houses
$873K
636 houses listed in the last 6 months.
Units
$498K
11 units listed in the last 6 months.
647 of the suburb's 20,137 dwellings (3.2%) were listed for sale in the last 6 months.
Rental Market
Advertised rents · last 6 monthsHouses in Point Cook rent for around $600 a week on average, based on 420 houses listed for rent in the past six months.
Houses
$600/wk
22% above its 6 neighbours (median $490/wk)
420 houses advertised for rent in the last 6 months.
Units
$365/wk
4 units advertised for rent in the last 6 months.
424 rentals advertised against an estimated 6,585 rented homes (6.4%) in the last 6 months.
Rental affordability
June quarter 2025133 Acceptable · the average rental household in this region would pay about 23% of its income on the median rent in postcode 3030.
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$600/week ($31,000 a year) on a $873,000 median
$365/week ($19,000 a year) on a $498,000 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
124 active Airbnb listings: 83 whole homes and 41 rooms. Whole homes are about 0.4% 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 Point Cook safe? Crime statistics
2026Crime in Point Cook sits in the moderate band, with 2,267 incidents recorded in 2026 — down roughly 29% on the prior year.
2,267 offences
29.0% since 2025Crime Trend
Serious Road Crashes
2021–202549 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.
Aircraft Noise
ANEF Contour Details
Significant impact — conditional building
Significant impact — conditional building
Moderate impact — noise insulation required
Noticeable aircraft noise
Low aircraft noise
Coastal Erosion
Shoreline Change Summary
1988–2025Nearest Eroding Coastline
- Distance
- 3.2 km
- Rate
- -0.79 m/yr
- Net Movement
- -32.2 m
- Certainty
- good
Data Quality
Schools
13 schools serve Point Cook, and the cohort is trailing peer-suburb performance.
- • 11,910 students across 10 schools (avg 1,191)
- • Sectors: 9 Government, 4 Catholic
- • ICSEA 1017-1141, median 1074 (above the national baseline of 1000)
- • Largest: Alamanda K-9 College (3,335 students)
Primary
Secondary
Combined
Walkability
Point Cook is somewhat walkable on foot — at 65/100, a short cluster of errands work on foot but most trips still benefit from a car. Within the suburb there are 10 supermarkets, 71 parks and 13 cafes to anchor that walking radius.
Public transport
Weekday and weekend service frequency across every stop inside Point Cook.
- Peak (7-9am + 5-7pm)
- 371.8 arrivals/hr
- Off-peak weekday
- 219.2 arrivals/hr
- Saturday
- 174.4 arrivals/hr
- Median peak wait
- 0 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 Point Cook.
- Full-fibre (FTTP) share
- 68%
- Premises covered
- 17,743
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
Wyndham: 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 135 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.
Point Cook is home to about 66,800 residents, with a median age of 33, broadly in line with the national figure. Median household income runs at $124,000 a year, with unemployment at 6.2%.
2021 Census · change since 2016
Population
66,781
Median Age
33
Median Household Income
$124,384/yr
Census Median Rent
$400/wk
Census Median Mortgage
$2,115/mo
Avg Household Size
3.2
Median Personal Income
$50,388/yr
Unemployment Rate
6.2%
Unoccupied Dwellings
7.9%
Total Dwellings
20,137
Owner-Occupier Rate
67.3%
Houses
88.0%
Rental Stress
16.7%
Mortgage Stress
20.4%
Work From Home
38.7%
Dwelling Types
Property Ownership
27 rented from a state or territory housing authority and 9 from a community housing provider, as a share of the 6,424 rented dwellings above — not of all dwellings.
Demographics
- Born in Australia
- 43.9%
- English Spoken at Home
- 44.3%
- Employment Rate
- 67%
- Completed Year 12
- 53.0%
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.
8,671 residents (13.0%) 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 61,095 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
26% of employed residents work in a capital's city centre (8,444 of 32,490).
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 10,655 people work here; 32,490 employed residents live here.
Mostly a place people commute from: 0.3 jobs per working resident. At least 67% 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 $1,997 a year through Wyndham based on 2024 figures.
How this land is zoned
- Residential 52%
- Parks and recreation 23%
- Rural and farming 12%
- Other and special use 9%
- Infrastructure and transport 3%
- Zones under 1% 1%
Proposed rezonings
- Industrial 3 Zone → Transport Zone 2 · C269wynd, exhibited Jun 2026 5.8 ha
and 1 smaller change
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: Wyndham
In the year to August 2026, 4,045 new dwellings were approved across Wyndham. That mix is 3,355 houses and 690 units.
New Homes Planned
New homes planned in this suburb: 4,225 homes
- Apartment and townhouse projects under construction 23 homes
- Lots in approved subdivisions, not yet titled 24 homes
- Projects firmly planned 65 homes
- Land zoned for housing, not yet subdivided 57 homes
- Projects possible in the longer term 42 homes
- Land set aside, awaiting a precinct structure plan 4,014 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
This station does not measure fine particles (PM2.5).
Days over the limit in 2025: ozone 0.
From the Point Cook monitoring station, 2.3 km away.
Climate & Setting
from Laverton RAAF, 5.5 kmDry climate — hot summers, mild winters.
- Elevation
- 11 m
- above sea level, at the suburb centre
- Distance to the ocean
- 3.2 km
- Annual rainfall
- 482 mm
- 76 rainy days
- Summer max (Jan)
- 25.9°C
- 11 days ≥ 35°C
- Winter min (Jul)
- 6.2°C
- 2 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
2 facilities within 5 km- 4.1 km
- 5.0 km
EV adoption
In postcode 3030, 1,583 of 85,650 registered light vehicles are battery-electric on 31 January 2025. A further 4.0% (3,417 vehicles) are hybrid or plug-in hybrid, taking the non-petrol, non-diesel share to 5.8%.
Rooftop solar
In postcode 3030, 18,846 rooftop-solar systems totalling 121.1 MW have been installed since 2001, against 41,810 dwellings recorded in the 2021 Census. 1,638 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.
191 first-home grants were paid in postcode 3030 in 2025-26, rank 10 of 298 Victorian postcodes. The most was 1,758, in 2009-10.
Grants on new and established homes; established homes stopped qualifying in mid-2013.
Mortgage repayments
128 mortgage brokers are registered in this suburb, 167 across postcode 3030.
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 $824,000 this is $74,000 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 Tim Watts Australian Labor Party
| Year | Winner | 2PP ALP | 2PP LNP | Swing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Tim Watts | 65.1% | 34.9% | +3.9 |
| 2022 | Tim Watts | 61.5% | 38.5% | +1.5 |
| 2019 | Tim Watts | 64.8% | 35.2% | +0.3 |
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 Mathew Hilakari Australian Labor Party - Victorian Branch
Next state election: 28 November 2026.
| Year | Winner | Won with | 2PP ALP | 2PP LNP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Mathew Hilakari ALP | 58.3% | 58.3% | 41.7% |
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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- #2 in Melbourne suburbs that added the most residents, 2016-2021
- #3 in Melbourne suburbs where the most Hindi is spoken at home
- #6 in Melbourne suburbs with the largest Hindu community
- #11 in Melbourne suburbs where the most Gujarati is spoken at home
- #13 in Melbourne suburbs where the most Tamil is spoken at home
- #15 in Melbourne suburbs that grew fastest, 2016-2021
- #15 in Best Melbourne suburbs for first-home buyers (houses)
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Common questions about Point Cook
Is Point Cook a safe place to live?
Recorded crime in Point Cook is moderate (48/100, ranked against other VIC suburbs on offences per resident).
What natural hazards affect Point Cook?
Point Cook has a low recorded bushfire history (16/100, ranked against every Australian suburb with any fire history). Flood overlays cover a low share of it (34/100). Part of it sits inside an aircraft noise contour. These are suburb-wide figures; check the address, as flood and bushfire exposure change street by street.
Is Point Cook a good place to live?
Point Cook has a SuburbScan Liveability grade of B (60/100), 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 Point Cook?
Point Cook, VIC had a population of 66,781 at the 2021 Australian Bureau of Statistics census.
What is the postcode for Point Cook, VIC?
The postcode for Point Cook, VIC is 3030.
How far is Point Cook from Melbourne?
Point Cook is 28 km from Melbourne CBD by road, about 32 minutes by car in normal traffic. Distance is the most-direct driving route, not straight-line.
What is the median household income in Point Cook?
At the 2021 ABS Census, median household income in Point Cook was $124,384 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 Point Cook?
The median advertised rent in Point Cook is $600 a week for houses (420 listings) and $365 a week for units (4 listings), from rental listings over the last six months.
What is the median age in Point Cook?
The median age of residents in Point Cook was 33 at the 2021 ABS Census.
Is Point Cook at risk of bushfire?
Point Cook has a low recorded bushfire history (16/100). 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 Point Cook?
There are 13 schools inside the Point Cook boundary: 7 at and 1 below similar schools on NAPLAN, compared with same-state, same-type schools of similar socio-educational advantage (ICSEA).
Is Point Cook walkable?
Point Cook scores 65/100 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 Point Cook?
At the nearest Bureau of Meteorology station to Point Cook, Laverton RAAF (5.5 km away), summer days average 25.9°C, winter nights 6.2°C, 482 mm of rain a year over 76 rainy days, and 11 days a year above 35°C over 2006-2026.
Is the First Home Owner Grant available in Point Cook?
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 Point Cook belong to?
Point Cook sits within the Wyndham local government area. Council rates, planning approvals, and waste collection fall under this LGA.
How much are council rates in Point Cook?
The average residential rates bill through Wyndham is $1,997 a year (2024). Every suburb in this LGA shares the same schedule — individual bills vary with land value.
How much is being built near Point Cook?
Across Wyndham, 4,045 new residential dwellings were approved in the year to August 2026 (source: ABS Building Approvals). These are LGA-level totals — every suburb in the council shares the same figure.
Which federal electorate is Point Cook in?
Point Cook sits within the federal Division of Gellibrand, currently held by Tim Watts (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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