City of Wyndham property market 2026: prices, rents, growth

If you are looking at a home in Werribee, Point Cook, Tarneit or Wyndham Vale, you are looking at the City of Wyndham. It's the council area that stretches south-west of Melbourne, from the bay to the Werribee River plains, and it has been one of the fastest-growing places in the country for more than a decade. Since the 2021 Census, roughly 250 people a week have moved in, and new estates, schools and a train station have followed them.

That growth shapes almost everything about buying here. A steady supply of new land has kept prices within reach of young families, but it also means the paddock at the end of your street may hold a school, a shopping centre or another few hundred homes within a few years. This report pulls together what homes have actually sold and rented for, how much is being built, who lives here, how the schools are coping and which projects are funded, so you can judge the area on the record rather than the brochure.

This report covers the council area as a whole. For one particular home, start with the free Property X-Ray, and get an Abora property report when you are ready to make an offer.

Which suburbs are in the City of Wyndham?

Twelve suburbs sit mainly within the City of Wyndham:

• The established suburbs: Werribee, Hoppers Crossing and Point Cook, most of which were built before 2010.
• The newer estates: Tarneit, Wyndham Vale, Manor Lakes, Williams Landing and Mambourin.
• Mostly farmland and industry: Werribee South, Cocoroc, Quandong and Laverton North.

Five more suburbs straddle the border with a neighbouring council: Truganina, Laverton, Eynesbury, Little River and Mount Cottrell. Most of Truganina, for instance, belongs to Melton. To keep the council-wide totals accurate, these five are shown separately and left out of them.

What do homes cost in Wyndham?

A market built around the family house

Wyndham is, above all, a market of family houses. Of the homes sold in the 12 months to 13 October 2026, 4,456 were houses. Townhouses, units and apartments together made up fewer than one sale in ten, and vacant land outsold every one of those types, which says a lot about how much of Wyndham is still being built.

The price range is unusually tight. Half of all houses sold within a $155,000 band, which is what you would expect in an area where most homes were built in the past 25 years, to similar plans, on similar-sized blocks. For buyers, that makes it easier to tell a fair price from an ambitious one, as long as you compare a home with the right sales. A council-wide median is a starting point; the sales that count are the similar homes on nearby streets.

Two Wyndhams: east and west

Read the chart from top to bottom and two Wyndhams appear. In the east, Williams Landing and Point Cook sit closest to the city, the freeway and the Laverton and Williams Landing stations, and they command a premium of $150,000 to $250,000. In the west, Tarneit, Wyndham Vale and Manor Lakes form the growth front, where most new land is released and prices are lowest.

Tarneit alone recorded more house sales than Point Cook and Werribee combined. That depth of sales is useful to buyers, because it makes it easy to find what comparable houses nearby have sold for before you make an offer. Werribee South had only 21 house sales, so treat its figure with care.

Each suburb has its own page with prices by property type and bedrooms, price history, the 2021 Census profile and its schools: Werribee, Point Cook, Tarneit, Hoppers Crossing, Wyndham Vale, Manor Lakes and Williams Landing.

More bedrooms, smaller blocks

The four-bedroom house is Wyndham's standard product. It accounts for more sales than any other size, at a median of $719,000. Curiously, it usually sits on a smaller block than a three-bedroom house, 432 m² against 486 m². The likely reason is age. Many three-bedroom homes are in the older parts of Werribee and Hoppers Crossing, where blocks were cut larger, while the newer estates fit bigger houses onto smaller lots. If a backyard matters more to you than a fourth bedroom, an older three-bedroom house can deliver more land for less money.

Land: about $1,000 a square metre

A typical new block is around 400 m² and costs about $390,000 before a house goes on it. For first-home buyers, that matters twice over. When the land and the build are signed as separate contracts, stamp duty is charged on the land price, and a block at that price falls under Victoria's $600,000 first-home exemption. A new home valued up to $750,000 may also qualify for the $10,000 First Home Owner Grant.

Are prices going up or down?

Over the past year, Wyndham's house prices have essentially moved sideways. The median eased by about $25,000 between late 2025 and the September quarter of 2026, a fall of around 3.6%. Some of that may simply reflect which homes happened to sell in each quarter rather than a genuine drop in value.

Ten years of house prices

Step back and the picture changes. Every main suburb's median house price rose by more than half between 2015 and 2024, and the two cheapest suburbs at the start, Werribee and Wyndham Vale, rose the most. Most of that climb happened before 2020. Since then, growth has slowed to roughly 3–4.5% a year, and the last 12 months have been flat. On this record, Wyndham looks like a place for steady, long-term ownership rather than a quick turnaround. This report does not try to forecast where prices go next.

What do homes rent for in Wyndham?

Renting in Wyndham became a lot more expensive between 2021 and 2025, when weekly rents for houses rose by roughly a third. Over the past year, though, they have stopped climbing. A three-bedroom house still leases for about $460 a week, as it did in mid-2025.

Wyndham also stays cheaper than the wider north and west of Melbourne, by about $60 a week for a three-bedroom house. For tenants, that gap is part of the area's appeal. For investors, it caps how far rents can rise before tenants look elsewhere.

How many new homes are being built in Wyndham?

House building in Wyndham peaked in 2021, when almost 6,000 new homes were approved. It eased in 2022 and 2023 as interest rates rose, then picked up again in 2025, and the first half of 2026 is tracking at a similar pace.

The knock-down figures tell an equally important story. Fewer than 100 homes a year are demolished. In Melbourne's older suburbs, much of the new building comes from replacing one old house with two or three townhouses. In Wyndham, almost every new home goes onto land that was recently a paddock.

That has two practical consequences for buyers. First, new estates keep competing with existing homes for the same buyers, which has helped keep prices affordable but also slows how fast they rise. Second, the open land near a newer estate is rarely permanent. More often than not it is already zoned for housing, a school or shops.

Before you inspect, run the address through the free Property X-Ray. It shows the lot, its zone and planning overlays, flood and bushfire controls, school zones and recent sales nearby, so you know what the land around a home is set aside for.

Wyndham, Melton, Casey and Hume are Melbourne's four main growth councils. Together they approved more than 15,000 new homes in a single year, more than one and a half times the City of Melbourne's total.

Who lives in Wyndham?

Young families, from all over the world

The 2021 Census paints a clear picture of who buys into Wyndham:

• Young families. Every suburb in the table is younger than Victoria as a whole, whose median age is 38. Tarneit's median age is just 30. In Tarneit, Manor Lakes and Point Cook, around two in three households are couples with children, which explains why so many new schools have been needed.
• One of Melbourne's most diverse areas. In Tarneit, 29% of residents were born in India, more than were born in Australia. In Point Cook, India (15%) and China (6%) are the largest birthplaces after Australia. Werribee, by contrast, is 60% Australian-born.
• Two income profiles. Households in the newer estates earn well above the Victorian median, while the older suburbs of Werribee and Hoppers Crossing sit below it.
• Stretched mortgages. In Manor Lakes, 64% of homes had a mortgage. In Tarneit, about one in five mortgaged households was already spending more than 30% of its income on repayments in 2021, before interest rates began rising in 2022.

Population: about 250 more people a week

Wyndham added about 12,900 residents a year between 2021 and 2025. The council is planning for around half a million people by 2041, roughly 150,000 more than today. Every one of them will need a home, a school place and a way to get to work, which is why the projects further down this report matter so much.

Schools in Wyndham

99 schools, and still catching up

Wyndham's schools have 22,000 more students than they did ten years ago, a rise of 68%, or roughly 2,200 extra students every year. The state government has responded with a building program that few other areas have seen.

That is twelve new government schools in four years, five of them in Tarneit alone. For families buying with a particular school in mind, the pace of change cuts both ways:

• Zones get redrawn. When a new school opens nearby, the zones around it are often redrawn. A home zoned for one school today may be zoned for a newer one in a few years, so check the zone for the home itself rather than assuming the nearest school applies.
• New schools have no results yet. New secondary schools take several years to reach Year 12, so there are no results to judge them by in the meantime.

The Property X-Ray shows the school zones for any Victorian address.

Year 12 results, 2025

VCE study scores are scaled so that 30 is the state average. Most of Wyndham's local government secondary schools sit a little below that line, while several independent and faith-based schools sit a little above it. Suzanne Cory High School tops the list, but it is a selective-entry school: students sit an entrance test and come from across Melbourne's west, so it is not a local zoned school.

A single year's results can move around, and a school's score reflects who enrols as much as how it teaches. Treat it as one question to ask a school, not the final answer. Each school's exact results are on the Schools tab of its suburb page, such as Werribee or Tarneit.

What's being built in Wyndham, and what's coming?

Opened or finishing in 2026

West Tarneit station. The new station opened on 13 September 2026 at Davis Road on the Geelong line, together with a reworked Wyndham bus network. It has up to 400 car spaces, bus routes 182 and 186, and a budget of about $200 million. Tarneit's original station had little parking for a suburb growing this fast, and the new station is designed to take some of that pressure off.

A bigger emergency department at Werribee Mercy Hospital. The $95 million expansion doubles the department to 67 treatment spaces, including six for mental health and drug and alcohol care and separate areas for children. It entered its final stage of delivery in May 2026 and, as of early November 2026, had not yet opened to the public. Mercy Health says it is on track for completion in 2026, and the existing emergency department stays open in the meantime. Once running, it is expected to treat about 25,000 more patients a year.

Funded in the 2026 state budget

• $77.5 million for more train services, including two extra trains an hour in the morning and afternoon peaks on the Werribee line.
• $14.8 million for nine-car trains on the Wyndham Vale line at peak times, giving about 50% more room than today's six-car trains.
• $100 million across Victoria for longer bus hours, more weekend services and new routes in growing suburbs.

Asked for, but not yet funded

After the May 2026 budget, the council named four projects it still considers essential:

• Truganina railway station
• A rebuild of Werribee station
• The Wyndham Ring Road, a new east–west road linking Wyndham Vale to Tarneit, with a bridge over the Werribee River
• Riverdale Aquatic Centre

Wyndham City Council and the community

The 2050 vision and the four-year plan

The Wyndham 2050 Community Vision is the community's own picture of what Wyndham should be like by 2050. It was presented to the council on 25 March 2025, after residents shaped it through the Future Wyndham project, which used surveys, pop-up stalls and a community panel whose recommendations are published.

The Council Plan 2025–29 turns that vision into four years of concrete work, setting out what the council will build, run and improve. It also includes the council's community health and wellbeing plan. A draft was released for public comment in May 2025, and the final plan was adopted alongside the 2025–26 budget.

How residents have a say

• The Loop is the council's online engagement site, where residents can comment on new parks, roads, plans and strategies. It runs alongside in-person workshops, pop-ups and forums.
• Progress reports are published every quarter, and every year the council reports on its progress against the 2050 vision.
• Advocacy to the state government is a large part of the council's work. It publishes its funding requests for each state electorate, and it ran a campaign before the 2026 state election urging candidates to back one of Australia's fastest-growing cities.

The Loop is worth a look before you buy. If a new park, road or shopping centre is planned near the home you have in mind, it often appears there for comment well before construction starts.

Is Wyndham a good place to buy a home?

The answer depends on what you need from a home. Here is what the records say, to weigh against your own list.

Three steps from shortlist to offer

1. Check every home on your list for free. The Property X-Ray shows a home's lot, zone, overlays, school zones and nearby sales in seconds, so you can cross off the wrong ones before you drive out to inspect.
2. Down to two? Compare them. Compare homes puts two addresses side by side and shows which one fits what you care about, and why.
3. Before you make an offer, get the full picture of one home. An Abora property report brings together its valuation and comparable sales, every past sale, the planning controls on the lot, what's recorded against it for flood, fire and noise, the street's sales and permits, and the schools it is zoned for. It comes as a PDF you can share with your broker, conveyancer or builder.

Frequently asked questions

Which suburbs are in the City of Wyndham?

Twelve suburbs sit mainly within the City of Wyndham: Cocoroc, Hoppers Crossing, Laverton North, Mambourin, Manor Lakes, Point Cook, Quandong, Tarneit, Werribee, Werribee South, Williams Landing and Wyndham Vale. Parts of Truganina, Laverton, Eynesbury, Little River and Mount Cottrell also fall inside the council area.

What is the median house price in the City of Wyndham?

$685,000 across 4,456 house sales in the 12 months to 13 October 2026, according to Abora's sold-homes records. Half of all houses sold between $620,000 and $775,000.

What is the median rent in Wyndham?

In the June quarter of 2026, the median rent for a new lease was $460 a week for a three-bedroom house and $530 for a four-bedroom house, according to the Victorian Government's Rental Report. Rents rose about a third between 2021 and 2025 and have been flat since.

Are house prices in Wyndham going up or down?

They were roughly flat in the year to October 2026. Over the longer run they rose strongly: Werribee's median house price went from $335,000 in 2015 to $615,000 in 2024, about 7% a year. Since 2020, growth across the main suburbs has been closer to 3–4.5% a year.

Is Wyndham good for first home buyers?

Wyndham's typical house prices sit well under the $950,000 Melbourne price cap of the First Home Guarantee, and a typical new block costs about $390,000, under Victoria's $600,000 first-home stamp duty exemption. Whether it suits you depends on your budget, commute and school needs.

Is there a new train station in Wyndham?

Yes. West Tarneit station on the Geelong line opened on 13 September 2026, along with a new local bus network and up to 400 car spaces.

How many schools are in Wyndham?

There were 99 schools in 2025: 64 government, 21 Catholic and 14 independent. Twelve new government schools opened between 2023 and 2026, and a new secondary school is planned for Wyndham Vale in 2028.