Somerville VIC 3912
Located in Victoria, Somerville sits 65 km from Melbourne CBD, around 56 minutes by car. The suburb has 11,767 residents, a median age of 40, and a median household income of $92,612 per year. By household income, education, and employment patterns, it ranks in the middle range nationally. The suburb grew 3.8% between 2016 and 2021. At the 2021 Census, households here paid a median rent of $380 per week and a median monthly mortgage of $1,800. Somerville is characterised by high coastal erosion risk. 4 schools sit within the suburb boundary, and walkability is low.
Is Somerville a good suburb?
Somerville scores a C (38/100) on SuburbScan's Liveability grade — weaker on schools and transit.
Below the state average
4 schools · Bottom 1% in VIC
Car-dependent
Walkability 0/100 · 64.8 km · 56 min drive to Melbourne
Around the state median
Median $880K
Moderate crime risk
Fire 14/100 · Crime 54/100 · Flood 50/100
Mid-range socio-economic
SEIFA decile 6/10 · median age 40 · 11,767 residents
Liveability Rating
38 / 100 · Ranked #592 in VICEach bar is Somerville's rank among VIC suburbs, from 0 to 100 (higher is better).
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Our score
38 / 100
From schools, safety and socio-economic data — not opinion.
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Median House Price
Public listings dataSomerville's house market is moving higher: the median sale price reached $880,000, about 6% above where it sat a year earlier.
Houses
$880,000
9% above its 4 neighbours (median $810,500)
Based on 210 recorded sales in the last 24 months.
Typically sold in 24 days — median across 109 sales that recorded a listing period
By bedrooms
- 2 bed 12 sales $644K
- 3 bed 110 sales $808K
- 4 bed 75 sales $1.07M
- 5 bed 9 sales $1.26M
Land
$1,615,000
Based on 35 recorded sales in the last 24 months.
Typically sold in 32 days — median across 22 sales that recorded a listing period
Currently for Sale
Last 6 monthsHouses in Somerville are currently listed at around $990,000 on average. Based on 94 houses listed in the past six months.
Houses
$990K
94 houses listed in the last 6 months.
Units
$625K
11 units listed in the last 6 months.
105 of the suburb's 4,322 dwellings (2.4%) were listed for sale in the last 6 months.
Rental Market
Advertised rents · last 6 monthsHouses in Somerville rent for around $675 a week on average, based on 12 houses listed for rent in the past six months.
$675/wk
12 houses advertised for rent in the last 6 months.
13 rentals advertised against an estimated 722 rented homes (1.8%) 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$675/week ($35,000 a year) on a $990,000 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
12 active Airbnb listings: 11 whole homes and 1 room. 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 Somerville safe? Crime statistics
2026Crime in Somerville sits in the moderate band, with 476 incidents recorded in 2026 — down roughly 20% on the prior year.
476 offences
20.4% since 2025Crime Trend
Serious Road Crashes
2021–202540 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.
Coastal Erosion
Shoreline Change Summary
1988–2025Nearest Eroding Coastline
- Distance
- 4.6 km
- Rate
- -0.42 m/yr
- Net Movement
- -156.4 m
- Certainty
- baseline outlier
Data Quality
Schools
Four schools serve Somerville, and the cohort is trailing peer-suburb performance.
- • 1,408 students across 4 schools (avg 352)
- • Sectors: 3 Government, 1 Catholic
- • ICSEA 975-1043, median 998 (around the national baseline of 1000)
- • Largest: Somerville Secondary College (582 students)
Primary
Secondary
Walkability
Somerville is very car-dependent on foot — at 0/100, nearly all errands require a car. Within the suburb there are 3 supermarkets, 24 parks and 4 cafes to anchor that walking radius.
We hold no public transport timetable data for this area, so public transport is not rated here and the score is spread across the remaining components. It is not counted as zero.
Public transport
Weekday and weekend service frequency across every stop inside Somerville.
- Peak (7-9am + 5-7pm)
- 28.5 arrivals/hr
- Off-peak weekday
- 21.4 arrivals/hr
- Saturday
- 18.5 arrivals/hr
- Median peak wait
- 1 min
- Span of service
- 16.4 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 Somerville.
- Full-fibre (FTTP) share
- 49%
- Premises covered
- 5,511
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 30 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.
Somerville is home to about 11,800 residents, with a median age of 40, broadly in line with the national figure. Median household income runs at $93,000 a year, with unemployment at 2.4%.
2021 Census · change since 2016
Population
11,767
Median Age
40
Median Household Income
$92,612/yr
Census Median Rent
$380/wk
Census Median Mortgage
$1,800/mo
Avg Household Size
2.6
Median Personal Income
$42,068/yr
Unemployment Rate
2.4%
Unoccupied Dwellings
4.8%
Total Dwellings
4,322
Owner-Occupier Rate
83.3%
Houses
82.3%
Rental Stress
21.3%
Mortgage Stress
23.3%
Work From Home
19.5%
Dwelling Types
Property Ownership
35 rented from a state or territory housing authority and 7 from a community housing provider, as a share of the 693 rented dwellings above — not of all dwellings.
Demographics
- Born in Australia
- 81.4%
- English Spoken at Home
- 92.1%
- Employment Rate
- 63.2%
- Completed Year 12
- 39.6%
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.
90 residents (0.8%) 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 10,988 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 (186 of 6,053).
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.
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
- Rural and farming 38%
- Other and special use 26%
- Residential 25%
- Infrastructure and transport 4%
- Parks and recreation 2%
- Industrial 2%
- Not zoned 3%
Rezoned since Oct 2025
- Special Use Zone → Industrial 3 Zone · C243morn, Mar 2026 36.8 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.
Planning zones cover 98% 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.
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, 27.4 km away.
Climate & Setting
from Mornington, 11.7 kmModerate rainfall.
- Elevation
- 25 m
- above sea level, at the suburb centre
- Distance to the ocean
- 4.7 km
- Near high-voltage lines
- 0.2% of addresses
- 14 within 100 m of an overhead line of 110 kV or more
- Annual rainfall
- 700 mm
- 86 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
1 facility within 5 km- 3.0 kmPoultry ProcessingTop reported: Oxides of Nitrogen · Carbon monoxide · Particulate Matter ≤10.0 µm (PM10)
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
12 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 $880,000 this is $130,000 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 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 Somerville
Is Somerville a safe place to live?
Recorded crime in Somerville is moderate (54/100, ranked against other VIC suburbs on offences per resident).
What natural hazards affect Somerville?
Somerville has a low recorded bushfire history (14/100, ranked against every Australian suburb with any fire history). Flood overlays cover a moderate share of it (50/100). These are suburb-wide figures; check the address, as flood and bushfire exposure change street by street.
Is Somerville a good place to live?
Somerville has a SuburbScan Liveability grade of C (38/100), 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 Somerville?
Somerville, VIC had a population of 11,767 at the 2021 Australian Bureau of Statistics census.
What is the postcode for Somerville, VIC?
The postcode for Somerville, VIC is 3912.
How far is Somerville from Melbourne?
Somerville is 65 km from Melbourne CBD by road, about 56 minutes by car in normal traffic. Distance is the most-direct driving route, not straight-line.
What is the median household income in Somerville?
At the 2021 ABS Census, median household income in Somerville was $92,612 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 Somerville?
The median advertised rent in Somerville is $675 a week for houses (12 listings), from rental listings over the last six months.
What is the median age in Somerville?
The median age of residents in Somerville was 40 at the 2021 ABS Census.
Is Somerville at risk of bushfire?
Somerville has a low recorded bushfire history (14/100). 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 Somerville?
There are 4 schools inside the Somerville boundary: 3 at and 1 below similar schools on NAPLAN, compared with same-state, same-type schools of similar socio-educational advantage (ICSEA).
What is the air quality in Somerville?
The nearest government air-quality monitoring station to Somerville (Dandenong) recorded a 2025 annual mean PM2.5 of 6.3 µg/m³ and PM10 of 20.8 µg/m³. That puts Somerville 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 Somerville?
At the nearest Bureau of Meteorology station to Somerville, Mornington (11.7 km away), 700 mm of rain a year over 86 rainy days over 2006-2026.
Is the First Home Owner Grant available in Somerville?
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 Somerville belong to?
Somerville 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 Somerville?
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 Somerville?
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 Somerville in?
Somerville 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
- 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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