Doncaster EastVIC · suburb profile
VIC 3109 · Manningham
Daily life in Doncaster East is marked by a high level of education and professional employment. The suburb has a significant proportion of professionals, making up 30.6% of the workforce, and a high rate of work-from-home arrangements at 32.1%, compared to the Victorian average of 25.7%. Commuting is primarily done by car, with 46.3% of residents driving to work, while public transport usage is relatively low at 5.0%.
Sales · 12 months to August 2026
What property sold for in Doncaster East
Houses · The median house in Doncaster East went for $1,600,000 over the 12 months to August 2026 — dearer than 91% of the Victorian suburbs we cover, and much where it sat a year earlier.
Most sales sit between $1,401,000 and $1,800,000, with the median in the middle.
Houses
$1.60m
median of 239 sales
0.6% down on the previous twelve months.
Dearer than 91% of the 426 suburbs we cover in Victoria.
Half sold between $1.40m and $1.80m.
Last sold within the past two weeks
Units
$635k
median of 123 sales
5.8% up on the previous twelve months.
Dearer than 69% of the 162 suburbs we cover in Victoria.
Half sold between $510k and $836k.
Last sold within the past two weeks
Townhouses
$1.15m
median of 69 sales
9.4% down on the previous twelve months.
Dearer than 86% of the 113 suburbs we cover in Victoria.
Half sold between $995k and $1.30m.
Last sold within the past two weeks
431 sales on record · data to 30 August 2026
Since 2022
How prices have moved
Houses · The longer arc runs $1,533,000 in 2022 to $1,600,000 now, a gain of 4.4%.
- 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 | $1.50m | $628k | $1.10m |
| 2025 · part year | $1.64m | $610k | $1.25m |
| 2024 | $1.60m | $888k | |
| 2023 | $1.63m | $880k | |
| 2022 | $1.53m | $800k |
Quarter by quarter
| Quarter | Median | Sales | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 Q2 | $1.50m | 69 | -6.9% |
| 2026 Q1 | $1.61m | 41 | -4.4% |
| 2025 Q4 | $1.69m | 99 | +1.1% |
| Quarter | Median | Sales | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 Q2 | $636k | 29 | +4.1%low confidence29 sales this quarter, 24 the quarter before. Under 30 either side, the movement is mostly which homes happened to sell rather than the market moving. |
| 2026 Q1 | $611k | 24 | -5.4%low confidence24 sales this quarter, 48 the quarter before. Under 30 either side, the movement is mostly which homes happened to sell rather than the market moving. |
| 2025 Q4 | $646k | 48 | +9.5% |
| Quarter | Median | Sales | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 Q2 | $1.21m | 14 | +10.6%low confidence14 sales this quarter, 16 the quarter before. Under 30 either side, the movement is mostly which homes happened to sell rather than the market moving. |
| 2026 Q1 | $1.09m | 16 | -10.1%low confidence16 sales this quarter, 28 the quarter before. Under 30 either side, the movement is mostly which homes happened to sell rather than the market moving. |
| 2025 Q4 | $1.21m | 28 |
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 Doncaster East
Houses · The step from 4 to 5 bedrooms is the expensive one in Doncaster East, worth about $309,000.
Houses
| Bedrooms | Median | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | $1.51m | 59 |
| 4 | $1.52m | 119 |
| 5 | $1.83m | 54 |
| 6 | $1.65m | 5 · few |
Units
| Bedrooms | Median | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $375k | 11 · few |
| 2 | $584k | 78 |
| 3 | $945k | 33 |
Townhouses
| Bedrooms | Median | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | $836k | 5 · few |
| 3 | $1.03m | 25 · few |
| 4 | $1.24m | 36 |
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.
6 schools · 2025 figures
Who goes to school in Doncaster East
All schools · Doncaster East's 6 schools teach 5,159 students, up 42.9% in ten years — and 12 government catchments cross the suburb.
Schools here
6
5 primary · 1 secondary
Students, all schools
5,159
2025 · +42.9% 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?”
+6.2%
2,948 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.
+9.7%
2,601 · 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 Doncaster East have grown 42.9% over 10 years, with the movement at the secondary end.
- Primary schools
- Secondary schools
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| Year | Primary schools | Secondary schools |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 2,095 | 1,516 |
| 2016 | 2,265 | 1,569 |
| 2017 | 2,417 | 1,568 |
| 2018 | 2,554 | 1,618 |
| 2019 | 2,758 | 1,633 |
| 2020 | 2,776 | 1,622 |
| 2021 | 2,752 | 1,599 |
| 2022 | 2,859 | 1,630 |
| 2023 | 3,015 | 1,835 |
| 2024 | 3,021 | 1,975 |
| 2025 | 2,948 | 2,211 |
Which schools in Doncaster East 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 | 1,785 | 1,516 | 310 | 3,611 |
| 2016 | 1,924 | 1,569 | 341 | 3,834 |
| 2017 | 2,089 | 1,568 | 328 | 3,985 |
| 2018 | 2,133 | 1,618 | 421 | 4,172 |
| 2019 | 2,403 | 1,633 | 355 | 4,391 |
| 2020 | 2,370 | 1,622 | 406 | 4,398 |
| 2021 | 2,421 | 1,599 | 331 | 4,351 |
| 2022 | 2,461 | 1,630 | 398 | 4,489 |
| 2023 | 2,661 | 1,835 | 354 | 4,850 |
| 2024 | 2,717 | 1,975 | 304 | 4,996 |
| 2025 | 2,601 | 2,211 | 347 | 5,159 |
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 6 schools in Doncaster East
Ordered by size, not by results — 5 government, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Doncaster Secondary College | Government | Secondary | 2,211 | +36.3% | +45.8% | 32 · 435 |
| Beverley Hills Primary School | Government | Primary | 811 | +29.6% | +139.9% | — |
| Doncaster Gardens Primary School | Government | Primary | 785 | +0.8% | +25.0% | — |
| Milgate Primary School | Government | Primary | 742 | −8.6% | +47.5% | — |
| Donburn Primary School | Government | Primary | 550 | +14.8% | +30.3% | — |
| Ss Peter & Paul's School | Catholic | Primary | 60 | −25.0% | −70.6% | — |
One school in Doncaster East reported a median VCE study score of 32, against a state median of 29.
Government zoning
Which catchments cover Doncaster East
12 government catchments cover Doncaster East — 4 secondary and 8 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 |
|---|---|
| Blackburn High School | Secondary |
| Doncaster Secondary College | Secondary |
| East Doncaster Secondary College | Secondary |
| Warrandyte High School | Secondary |
| Beverley Hills Primary School | Primary |
| Donburn Primary School | Primary |
| Doncaster Gardens Primary School | Primary |
| Doncaster Primary School | Primary |
| Donvale Primary School | Primary |
| Kerrimuir Primary School | Primary |
| Milgate Primary School | Primary |
| Serpell Primary School | Primary |
The read
What living here is actually like
Doncaster East is a suburb with a population of 30,926, characterized by a median age of 41, which is slightly older than the Victorian average of 38. The community is diverse, with 45.2% of residents born in Australia and significant populations from China, Malaysia, and Hong Kong. The suburb has a strong family presence, with 51.2% of households being couples with children, and 33.7% being couples without children. The area is predominantly owner-occupied, with 41.4% of homes owned outright and 31.8% owned with a mortgage.
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
Doncaster East · 0–100
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| Buyer type | Score |
|---|---|
| Families | 85 |
| Professionals | 80 |
| Retirees | 75 |
| Investors | 70 |
| First home buyers | 60 |
Why families score highest
The signals doing the work
- High percentage of family households at 78.7%
- Good educational attainment with 40.1% holding bachelor degrees
- Above average household income supports family lifestyle
- Predominantly owner-occupied housing market
Against the state
How Doncaster East 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
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| Dwelling type | Share |
|---|---|
| Apartments | 13.8% |
| Separate houses | 63.1% |
| Townhouses | 23.1% |
How people get to work
Method of travel, 2021 Census
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| Method | Share |
|---|---|
| Worked from home | 32.1% |
| Drove a car | 46.3% |
| Public transport | 5% |
| Walked only | 1.1% |
| Car passenger | 3.1% |
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
- Highly educated population - 40.1% hold bachelor degrees (vs VIC 29.2%)
- Above average household income - $1,792 weekly (vs VIC $1,759)
- Significant work-from-home culture - 32.1% (vs VIC 25.7%)
- Diverse cultural background with 45.2% born overseas
- Owner-dominated housing market with 73.2% ownership
Things to be aware of
- Unemployment rate slightly above VIC average at 5.7%
- Lower percentage of separate houses than VIC average (63.1% vs 73.4%)
- Relatively high median monthly mortgage at $2,400
- Public transport usage is low at 5.0%
- Higher percentage of non-English speaking households (60.4%)
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.
Want to dig into one address in Doncaster East?
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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.