Dandenong NorthVIC · suburb profile
VIC 3175 · Greater Dandenong
Daily life in Dandenong North offers a mix of commuting options, with 62.2% of residents driving to work and 4.3% using public transport. The suburb has a relatively low work-from-home rate of 16.0% compared to the Victorian average of 25.7%. The community has a mix of housing types, with 85.5% separate houses, providing a suburban feel.
Sales · 12 months to August 2026
What property sold for in Dandenong North
Houses · Across 192 sales, houses in Dandenong North reached a median of $825,000, 4.8% up year on year and just below the middle of the Victorian range.
Most sales sit between $745,000 and $930,000, with the median in the middle.
Houses
$825k
median of 192 sales
4.8% up on the previous twelve months.
Cheaper than 58% of the 426 suburbs we cover in Victoria.
Half sold between $745k and $930k.
Last sold within the past two weeks
Units
$594k
median of 54 sales
1.9% up on the previous twelve months.
Dearer than 56% of the 162 suburbs we cover in Victoria.
Half sold between $540k and $664k.
Last sold within the past two weeks
Townhouses
$685k
median of 14 sales
Too few sales to be reliable — treat as a rough guide
Half sold between $605k and $766k.
Last sold one to two months ago
260 sales on record · data to 30 August 2026
Since 2022
How prices have moved
Houses · The longer arc runs $740,000 in 2022 to $825,000 now, a gain of 11.5%.
- Houses
- Units
- Townhouses
Dashed lines and hollow points are part years — incomplete, so a dip may only mean fewer sales have happened yet. A break in a line is a year with no published figure, not a fall to zero.
| Year | Houses | Units | Townhouses |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 · part year | $818k | $610k | $630k |
| 2025 · part year | $805k | $590k | $740k |
| 2024 | $756k | ||
| 2023 | $725k | $530k | |
| 2022 | $740k | $550k |
Quarter by quarter
| Quarter | Median | Sales | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 Q2 | $861k | 44 | +2.7% |
| 2026 Q1 | $838k | 40 | +1% |
| 2025 Q4 | $830k | 71 | +5.5% |
| Quarter | Median | Sales | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 Q2 | $615k | 16 | -3.9%low confidence16 sales this quarter, 10 the quarter before. Under 30 either side, the movement is mostly which homes happened to sell rather than the market moving. |
| 2026 Q1 | $640k | 10 | +6.1%low confidence10 sales this quarter, 21 the quarter before. Under 30 either side, the movement is mostly which homes happened to sell rather than the market moving. |
| 2025 Q4 | $603k | 21 |
| Quarter | Median | Sales | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 Q4 | $775k | 5 |
A change is marked low confidence where either quarter had fewer than 30 sales. The medians are real; with a handful of sales the movement between them is mostly which homes happened to change hands, not the market moving.
Last 12 months
What an extra bedroom costs in Dandenong North
Houses · The step from 3 to 4 bedrooms is the expensive one in Dandenong North, worth about $144,000.
Houses
| Bedrooms | Median | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | $700k | 5 · few |
| 3 | $766k | 106 |
| 4 | $910k | 63 |
| 5 | $992k | 13 · few |
Units
| Bedrooms | Median | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | $560k | 29 · few |
| 3 | $662k | 21 · few |
Townhouses
| Bedrooms | Median | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | $595k | 5 · few |
| 3 | $730k | 6 · few |
Counts with fewer than five sales are left out rather than estimated, and bigger does not always mean dearer — a bedroom count with few sales can be pulled either way by the particular homes that happened to change hands.
5 schools · 2025 figures
Who goes to school in Dandenong North
All schools · Dandenong North's 5 schools teach 1,923 students, down 23% in ten years — and 10 government catchments cross the suburb.
Schools here
5
4 primary · 1 secondary
Students, all schools
1,923
2025 · −23.0% since 2015
At primary schoolsStudents at schools whose type is “Primary”. It excludes children in primary years at a Prep-to-12 college — they are counted in the tile beside this one. This number answers “are the primary schools here filling or emptying?”
−14.2%
1,073 students · five years
Children in primary yearsChildren in Years 1–6 at any school, including Prep-to-12 colleges. This answers “are there still young families here?” — a different question from the tile on the left, which is why the two can move in opposite directions.
Prep and ungraded students are counted separately again; see the chart below.
−13.9%
927 · Years 1–6, anywhere
11 years · two ways to read them
Enrolments, 2015–2025
The same students, counted two ways — by the kind of school they attend, and by the year they are in. They answer different questions and can point in different directions. Both views are in the page; the buttons only change which is visible.
Enrolments in Dandenong North have fallen 23% over 10 years, with the movement at the secondary end.
- Primary schools
- Secondary schools
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| Year | Primary schools | Secondary schools |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,505 | 991 |
| 2016 | 1,424 | 948 |
| 2017 | 1,411 | 913 |
| 2018 | 1,303 | 917 |
| 2019 | 1,233 | 878 |
| 2020 | 1,250 | 874 |
| 2021 | 1,148 | 844 |
| 2022 | 1,104 | 823 |
| 2023 | 1,092 | 845 |
| 2024 | 1,104 | 826 |
| 2025 | 1,073 | 850 |
Which schools in Dandenong North are filling and which are emptying. A school that covers Prep to Year 12 is counted once, in its own line — its primary-age students are not in the primary schools line.
- Years 1–6
- Years 7–12
- Prep & ungradedTwo groups that sit outside the numbered year levels: Prep — the first year of school, which the national data does not number — and ungraded students at specialist schools, who are not placed in a year level at all.
A suburb with a specialist school will have a large line here.
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| Year | Years 1–6 | Years 7–12 | Prep & ungraded | All students |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,313 | 991 | 192 | 2,496 |
| 2016 | 1,240 | 948 | 184 | 2,372 |
| 2017 | 1,216 | 913 | 195 | 2,324 |
| 2018 | 1,135 | 917 | 168 | 2,220 |
| 2019 | 1,054 | 878 | 179 | 2,111 |
| 2020 | 1,077 | 874 | 173 | 2,124 |
| 2021 | 991 | 844 | 157 | 1,992 |
| 2022 | 961 | 823 | 143 | 1,927 |
| 2023 | 923 | 845 | 169 | 1,937 |
| 2024 | 945 | 826 | 159 | 1,930 |
| 2025 | 927 | 850 | 146 | 1,923 |
This counts children by the year they are in, not by the kind of school they attend — so a Prep-to-12 college contributes to every line. The three add up to every student in the suburb.
2025 · ACARA
All 5 schools in Dandenong North
Ordered by size, not by results — 3 government, 2 Catholic and 0 independent. Schools with more than one campus are counted once.
What these columns mean
- Type
- Prep-to-12 is one school a child can start and finish at without changing schools. Specialist schools also appear as Prep-to-12.
- 5 yr
- Change in enrolments against five years ago, not against last year. Enrolments move slowly, so a single year is mostly noise.
- VCE median
- The middle study score of that school’s Year 12 students, on a scale of 0–50. The state median in 2025 was 29.0, so a school above that sits above the middle and one below it sits below. The smaller number after it is how many students the figure rests on. Under 30 students we show nothing at all — a small cohort’s result swings from year to year on who happened to sit the exams, which is easily mistaken for the school changing.
| School | Sector | Type | Students | 5 yr | 10 yr | VCE median |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lyndale Secondary College | Government | Secondary | 850 | −2.7% | −14.2% | 27 · 121 |
| Lyndale Greens Primary School | Government | Primary | 446 | −24.0% | −20.9% | — |
| Rosewood Downs Primary School | Government | Primary | 258 | −12.2% | −26.3% | — |
| St Elizabeth's School | Catholic | Primary | 244 | +3.4% | −33.5% | — |
| St Gerard's School | Catholic | Primary | 125 | −6.0% | −44.2% | — |
One school in Dandenong North reported a median VCE study score of 27, against a state median of 29.
Government zoning
Which catchments cover Dandenong North
10 government catchments cover Dandenong North — 3 secondary and 7 primary — so which one applies depends on the address, not the suburb.
| CatchmentThe area around a government school where living there guarantees your child a place. Boundaries follow streets, not suburb lines, so an address near the edge of a suburb may be zoned elsewhere. They are redrawn each year. | Level |
|---|---|
| Carwatha College P-12 | Secondary |
| Dandenong High School | Secondary |
| Lyndale Secondary College | Secondary |
| Dandenong North Primary School | Primary |
| Lyndale Greens Primary School | Primary |
| Mulgrave Primary School | Primary |
| Rosewood Downs Primary School | Primary |
| Silverton Primary School | Primary |
| Wooranna Park Primary School | Primary |
| Yarraman Oaks Primary School | Primary |
The read
What living here is actually like
Dandenong North is a suburb with a total population of 22,551, characterized by a median age of 38, which aligns with the Victorian average. The suburb has a balanced gender distribution with 50.6% males and 49.4% females. It is a culturally diverse area, with 56.6% of residents born overseas, significantly higher than the Victorian average of 35.0%. The family structure is predominantly couple with children households at 48.1%, while single-parent families make up 19.0%.
Buyer fit
Who this suburb suits
One score per buyer type, out of 100, built from the demographic, housing and commute profile. Strongest first.
Buyer-fit score
Dandenong North · 0–100
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| Buyer type | Score |
|---|---|
| Families | 75 |
| Investors | 70 |
| Professionals | 65 |
| First home buyers | 60 |
| Retirees | 55 |
Why families score highest
The signals doing the work
- High percentage of couple with children households at 48.1%
- Affordable housing with median weekly rent at $341
- Predominantly separate houses at 85.5%
- Family-friendly community with 75.0% family households
Against the state
How Dandenong North differs from Victoria
Every bar is this suburb. The vertical tick is the Victorian figure — the gap between them is the story.
Housing & movement
What’s built here, and how people leave in the morning
Dwelling mix
Share of occupied private dwellings
Show data table
| Dwelling type | Share |
|---|---|
| Apartments | 3.2% |
| Separate houses | 85.5% |
| Townhouses | 11.2% |
How people get to work
Method of travel, 2021 Census
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| Method | Share |
|---|---|
| Worked from home | 16% |
| Drove a car | 62.2% |
| Public transport | 4.3% |
| Car passenger | 4.9% |
Costs 2021 Census
Census figures, collected in 2021. Rents and repayments have moved since — for what property is selling for now, see .
Top occupations
Share of the employed workforce
Key highlights
- High cultural diversity with 56.6% born overseas (vs VIC 35.0%)
- Predominantly family households with 75.0% family households
- Majority of housing are separate houses at 85.5%
- Significant portion of residents are professionals at 17.0%
- Median age aligns with VIC average at 38 years
Things to be aware of
- Unemployment rate is higher at 7.2% (vs VIC 5.0%)
- Lower percentage of residents with bachelor's degrees at 19.5% (vs VIC 29.2%)
- Below average median household income at $1,436 weekly (vs VIC $1,759)
- Lower work-from-home percentage at 16.0% (vs VIC 25.7%)
Coming soon to this page
Where the richer profile lands
Schools & catchments
Zoned primary and secondary, NAPLAN bands, distances.
Transport & access
Stations, tram routes, drive time to the CBD, walkability.
Development activity
Permits approved, projects underway, zoning changes.
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Demographic figures from the Census of Population and Housing © Australian Bureau of Statistics, used under Creative Commons Attribution.
Cadastral and boundary data contains information © State of Victoria (Vicmap), licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Narrative summaries are AI-generated from the underlying data and may contain errors.
School details, enrolments and senior secondary results from the National Schools Data Collection © Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA).
School catchment boundaries contain information © State of Victoria (Department of Education), licensed under CC BY 4.0.
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Informational only — not financial, legal or planning advice. Verify zoning, overlays and catchments with the relevant council before relying on them. Data vintage: 2021 Census.