ElsternwickVIC · suburb profile
VIC 3185 · Glen Eira
Daily life in Elsternwick is influenced by its high rate of professionals, with 40% of the workforce in this occupation. The suburb has a significant work-from-home culture, with 45.1% of residents working remotely, which is notably higher than the Victorian average of 25.7%. Commuting is varied, with 30.9% driving to work and 6.2% using public transport. The community has a vibrant feel, supported by a mix of housing types including separate houses, townhouses, and apartments.
Sales · 12 months to August 2026
What property sold for in Elsternwick
Units · Across 97 sales, units in Elsternwick reached a median of $633,000, 5.6% down year on year and above the Victorian median of $573,000.
This is a varied market — the middle half of units spanned $470,000 to $885,000, so the median alone will not tell a buyer much.
Houses
$2.00m
median of 21 sales
Too few sales to be reliable — treat as a rough guide
Half sold between $1.67m and $2.26m.
Last sold within the past month
Units
$633k
median of 97 sales
5.6% down on the previous twelve months.
Dearer than 68% of the 162 suburbs we cover in Victoria.
Half sold between $470k and $885k.
Last sold within the past month
Townhouses
$1.42m
median of 13 sales
Too few sales to be reliable — treat as a rough guide
Half sold between $890k and $1.56m.
Last sold within the past two weeks
131 sales on record · data to 30 August 2026
Since 2022
How prices have moved
Units · The longer arc is downward here, $682,000 in 2022 to $633,000 now.
- 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 | $1.70m | $650k | $1.16m |
| 2025 · part year | $2.00m | $655k | $1.38m |
| 2024 | $1.95m | $714k | |
| 2023 | $2.24m | $641k | |
| 2022 | $2.27m | $682k |
Quarter by quarter
| Quarter | Median | Sales | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 Q2 | $2.02m | 5 | -5.2%low confidence5 sales this quarter, 11 the quarter before. Under 30 either side, the movement is mostly which homes happened to sell rather than the market moving. |
| 2025 Q4 | $2.13m | 11 |
| Quarter | Median | Sales | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 Q2 | $645k | 17 | -8.3%low confidence17 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 | $703k | 16 | +11.1%low confidence16 sales this quarter, 49 the quarter before. Under 30 either side, the movement is mostly which homes happened to sell rather than the market moving. |
| 2025 Q4 | $633k | 49 | -5.9% |
| Quarter | Median | Sales | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 Q4 | $1.52m | 6 |
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 Elsternwick
Houses
In Elsternwick, over the last 12 months, a three-bedroom house has a median of $1.72 million from 15 sales, while a four-bedroom house has a median of $2.13 million from 5 sales.
| Bedrooms | Median | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | $1.72m | 15 · few |
| 4 | $2.13m | 5 · few |
Units
In Elsternwick, over the last 12 months, a two-bedroom unit has a median of $651,000 from 60 sales, while a one-bedroom unit has a median of $395,000 from 22 sales.
| Bedrooms | Median | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $395k | 22 · few |
| 2 | $651k | 60 |
| 3 | $1.39m | 13 · few |
Townhouses
In Elsternwick, over the last 12 months, a three-bedroom townhouse has a median of $1.52 million from 6 sales.
| Bedrooms | Median | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | $1.52m | 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.
4 schools · 2025 figures
Who goes to school in Elsternwick
All schools · Elsternwick's 4 schools teach 1,384 students, down 11.6% in ten years — and 9 government catchments cross the suburb.
Schools here
4
2 primary · 2 Prep-to-12
Students, all schools
1,384
2025 · −11.6% 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?”
−15.0%
443 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.
−13.3%
786 · Years 1–6, anywhere
786 children in Elsternwick are in Years 1–6, and 443 students attend a primary school here. At least 43.6% of Elsternwick's primary-age children go to a school that also runs secondary years.
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 Elsternwick have fallen 11.6% over 10 years, with the movement at the secondary end.
- Primary schools
- Prep-to-12 & specialist
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| Year | Primary schools | Prep-to-12 & specialist |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 469 | 1,097 |
| 2016 | 515 | 1,084 |
| 2017 | 521 | 1,066 |
| 2018 | 538 | 1,050 |
| 2019 | 532 | 1,018 |
| 2020 | 521 | 1,020 |
| 2021 | 507 | 1,002 |
| 2022 | 491 | 988 |
| 2023 | 465 | 972 |
| 2024 | 464 | 966 |
| 2025 | 443 | 941 |
Which schools in Elsternwick 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.
Show data table
| Year | Years 1–6 | Years 7–12 | Prep & ungraded | All students |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 958 | 453 | 155 | 1,566 |
| 2016 | 978 | 451 | 170 | 1,599 |
| 2017 | 968 | 467 | 152 | 1,587 |
| 2018 | 956 | 467 | 165 | 1,588 |
| 2019 | 933 | 473 | 144 | 1,550 |
| 2020 | 907 | 491 | 143 | 1,541 |
| 2021 | 868 | 501 | 140 | 1,509 |
| 2022 | 842 | 499 | 138 | 1,479 |
| 2023 | 820 | 487 | 130 | 1,437 |
| 2024 | 806 | 484 | 140 | 1,430 |
| 2025 | 786 | 461 | 137 | 1,384 |
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 4 schools in Elsternwick
Ordered by size, not by results — 0 government, 1 Catholic and 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leibler Yavneh College | Independent | Prep-to-12 | 559 | −1.9% | −4.1% | 36 · 103 |
| Adass Israel School | Independent | Prep-to-12 | 382 | −15.1% | −25.7% | — |
| St Joseph's School | Catholic | Primary | 347 | −0.9% | +19.2% | — |
| Sholem Aleichem College | Independent | Primary | 96 | −43.9% | −46.1% | — |
One school in Elsternwick reported a median VCE study score of 36, against a state median of 29.
Government zoning
Which catchments cover Elsternwick
9 government catchments cover Elsternwick — 3 secondary and 6 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 |
|---|---|
| Brighton Secondary College | Secondary |
| Elwood College | Secondary |
| Glen Eira College | Secondary |
| Caulfield Junior College | Primary |
| Caulfield Primary School | Primary |
| Elsternwick Primary School | Primary |
| Elwood Primary School | Primary |
| Gardenvale Primary School | Primary |
| Ripponlea Primary School | Primary |
The read
What living here is actually like
Elsternwick is a suburb with a population of 10,883, characterized by a median age of 38, which aligns with the Victorian average. The gender distribution is slightly skewed towards females, with 53.2% female and 46.8% male. The suburb has a diverse age distribution with 5.1% of the population aged 0-4 and 5.6% aged 5-9. Families in Elsternwick are predominantly couples with children (43.8%) and couples without children (42.6%), with single-parent families making up 12.1%. The average household size is 2.3 people.
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
Elsternwick · 0–100
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| Buyer type | Score |
|---|---|
| Professionals | 85 |
| Investors | 80 |
| Families | 75 |
| Retirees | 65 |
| First home buyers | 60 |
Why professionals score highest
The signals doing the work
- 40% of residents are professionals
- High work-from-home rate - 45.1%
- Proximity to business districts
- High median personal income - $1,206 weekly
Against the state
How Elsternwick 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 | 41.4% |
| Separate houses | 38.2% |
| Townhouses | 19.3% |
How people get to work
Method of travel, 2021 Census
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| Method | Share |
|---|---|
| Worked from home | 45.1% |
| Drove a car | 30.9% |
| Public transport | 6.2% |
| Walked only | 3% |
| Car passenger | 1.8% |
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 - 50.8% hold bachelor degrees (vs VIC 29.2%)
- High median household income - $2,209 weekly (vs VIC $1,759)
- Low unemployment rate - 3.5% (vs VIC 5.0%)
- Significant work-from-home culture - 45.1% (vs VIC 25.7%)
- Diverse housing options with 41.4% apartments and 38.2% separate houses
Things to be aware of
- Higher proportion of rented properties - 38.5% (vs VIC 28.5%)
- Lower percentage of separate houses - 38.2% (vs VIC 73.4%)
- High median monthly mortgage - $2,400
- Potential for congestion due to high work-from-home rate
- Diverse cultural background may require community integration efforts
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.