Ferntree GullyVIC · suburb profile
VIC 3156 · Knox
Daily life in Ferntree Gully is characterized by a strong sense of community, with many residents owning their homes outright (33.7%) or with a mortgage (42.6%). The suburb has a high rate of car usage for commuting, with 55.7% of residents driving to work. Public transport usage is relatively low at 3.1%, while 22.9% of the workforce works from home, slightly below the Victorian average.
Sales · 12 months to August 2026
What property sold for in Ferntree Gully
Houses · The median house in Ferntree Gully went for $955,000 over the 12 months to August 2026, 7.9% above the Victorian median of $885,000. That is 4.4% up on the twelve months before, on 237 sales.
There is little spread here — the middle half of houses landed between $880,000 and $1,085,000.
Houses
$955k
median of 237 sales
4.4% up on the previous twelve months.
Dearer than 59% of the 426 suburbs we cover in Victoria.
Half sold between $880k and $1.08m.
Last sold within the past two weeks
Units
$702k
median of 86 sales
4.8% up on the previous twelve months.
Dearer than 86% of the 162 suburbs we cover in Victoria.
Half sold between $601k and $745k.
Last sold within the past two weeks
Townhouses
$800k
median of 33 sales
3.8% up on the previous twelve months.
Cheaper than 51% of the 113 suburbs we cover in Victoria.
Half sold between $700k and $884k.
Last sold within the past month
356 sales on record · data to 30 August 2026
Since 2022
How prices have moved
Houses · Since 2022, houses have climbed from $873,000 to $955,000 — 9.4% over the period.
- Houses
- Units
- Townhouses
- Land
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 | Land |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 · part year | $950k | $700k | $720k | |
| 2025 · part year | $935k | $685k | $800k | $685k |
| 2024 | $889k | $675k | ||
| 2023 | $890k | $680k | ||
| 2022 | $873k | $661k |
Quarter by quarter
| Quarter | Median | Sales | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 Q2 | $938k | 40 | -3.3% |
| 2026 Q1 | $970k | 57 | -0.1% |
| 2025 Q4 | $971k | 98 | +3.3% |
| Quarter | Median | Sales | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 Q2 | $692k | 24 | -2.4%low confidence24 sales this quarter, 18 the quarter before. Under 30 either side, the movement is mostly which homes happened to sell rather than the market moving. |
| 2026 Q1 | $709k | 18 | +0.1%low confidence18 sales this quarter, 25 the quarter before. Under 30 either side, the movement is mostly which homes happened to sell rather than the market moving. |
| 2025 Q4 | $708k | 25 |
| Quarter | Median | Sales | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 Q2 | $720k | 6 | +7.6%low confidence6 sales this quarter, 8 the quarter before. Under 30 either side, the movement is mostly which homes happened to sell rather than the market moving. |
| 2026 Q1 | $669k | 8 | -21.9%low confidence8 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. |
| 2025 Q4 | $857k | 10 |
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 Ferntree Gully
Houses · The step from 3 to 4 bedrooms is the expensive one in Ferntree Gully, worth about $142,000.
Houses
| Bedrooms | Median | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | $728k | 10 · few |
| 3 | $908k | 118 |
| 4 | $1.05m | 87 |
| 5 | $1.27m | 18 · few |
Units
| Bedrooms | Median | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | $636k | 42 |
| 3 | $738k | 37 |
| 4 | $840k | 5 · few |
Townhouses
| Bedrooms | Median | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | $625k | 7 · few |
| 3 | $806k | 20 · few |
| 4 | $1.02m | 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.
10 schools · 2025 figures
Who goes to school in Ferntree Gully
All schools · Ferntree Gully's 10 schools teach 2,885 students, down 3.9% in ten years — and 13 government catchments cross the suburb.
Schools here
10
6 primary · 2 secondary · 2 Prep-to-12
Students, all schools
2,885
2025 · −3.9% 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?”
−6.4%
1,490 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.
−2.4%
1,371 · 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.
Over 10 years the suburb's primary schools have lost 15.3% of their students, while its schools running Prep to Year 12 have grown 94.4%.
- Primary schools
- Secondary schools
- Prep-to-12 & specialist
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| Year | Primary schools | Secondary schools | Prep-to-12 & specialist |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,759 | 1,047 | 197 |
| 2016 | 1,754 | 1,049 | 193 |
| 2017 | 1,724 | 1,061 | 206 |
| 2018 | 1,648 | 1,010 | 212 |
| 2019 | 1,630 | 985 | 216 |
| 2020 | 1,592 | 960 | 233 |
| 2021 | 1,593 | 936 | 263 |
| 2022 | 1,537 | 914 | 287 |
| 2023 | 1,571 | 906 | 333 |
| 2024 | 1,520 | 974 | 368 |
| 2025 | 1,490 | 1,012 | 383 |
Which schools in Ferntree Gully 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 | 1,553 | 1,047 | 403 | 3,003 |
| 2016 | 1,528 | 1,049 | 419 | 2,996 |
| 2017 | 1,518 | 1,061 | 412 | 2,991 |
| 2018 | 1,446 | 1,010 | 414 | 2,870 |
| 2019 | 1,432 | 985 | 414 | 2,831 |
| 2020 | 1,405 | 960 | 420 | 2,785 |
| 2021 | 1,396 | 947 | 449 | 2,792 |
| 2022 | 1,348 | 943 | 447 | 2,738 |
| 2023 | 1,379 | 963 | 468 | 2,810 |
| 2024 | 1,380 | 1,054 | 428 | 2,862 |
| 2025 | 1,371 | 1,100 | 414 | 2,885 |
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 10 schools in Ferntree Gully
Ordered by size, not by results — 6 government, 2 Catholic and 2 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.
| School | Sector | Type | Students | 5 yr | 10 yr |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Joseph's College | Catholic | Secondary | 991 | +3.2% | −5.3% |
| Mountain Gate Primary School | Government | Primary | 432 | +9.6% | +27.1% |
| Ferntree Gully North Primary School | Government | Primary | 289 | −27.9% | −20.4% |
| Wattle View Primary School | Government | Primary | 247 | −7.8% | +11.8% |
| St John the Baptist School | Catholic | Primary | 221 | +31.5% | +16.3% |
| Eastern Ranges School | Government | Prep-to-12 | 200 | +5.3% | +40.8% |
| Kent Park Primary School | Government | Primary | 197 | −7.9% | −59.5% |
| Heritage College Knox | Independent | Prep-to-12 | 183 | +325.6% | +232.7% |
| Fairhills Primary School | Government | Primary | 104 | −29.3% | −34.6% |
| The Avenue School | Independent | Secondary | 21 | — | — |
Government zoning
Which catchments cover Ferntree Gully
13 government catchments cover Ferntree Gully — 5 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 |
|---|---|
| Boronia K-12 College | Secondary |
| Fairhills High School | Secondary |
| Rowville Secondary College | Secondary |
| Scoresby Secondary College | Secondary |
| Upwey High School | Secondary |
| Fairhills Primary School | Primary |
| Ferntree Gully North Primary School | Primary |
| Karoo Primary School | Primary |
| Kent Park Primary School | Primary |
| Lysterfield Primary School | Primary |
| Mountain Gate Primary School | Primary |
| Upper Ferntree Gully Primary School | Primary |
| Wattle View Primary School | Primary |
The read
What living here is actually like
Ferntree Gully is a suburb with a population of 27,400, characterized by a median age of 40, slightly older than the Victorian average of 38. The gender distribution is fairly balanced with 49.1% male and 50.9% female residents. Families are a significant part of the community, with 45.9% of households being couples with children, and 35% being couples without children. The suburb also has a notable percentage of single-parent households at 17.6%. Housing in Ferntree Gully is predominantly separate houses, making up 88% of all dwellings, which is higher than the Victorian average of 73.4%.
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
Ferntree Gully · 0–100
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| Buyer type | Score |
|---|---|
| Families | 85 |
| Retirees | 75 |
| Professionals | 70 |
| Investors | 65 |
| First home buyers | 60 |
Why families score highest
The signals doing the work
- High percentage of family households - 73.3%
- Predominantly separate houses - 88%
- Above average household income - $1,770 weekly
- Good schooling options with primary education industry presence
Against the state
How Ferntree Gully 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 | 1.9% |
| Separate houses | 88% |
| Townhouses | 9.8% |
How people get to work
Method of travel, 2021 Census
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| Method | Share |
|---|---|
| Worked from home | 22.9% |
| Drove a car | 55.7% |
| Public transport | 3.1% |
| Walked only | 0.6% |
| Car passenger | 3.5% |
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
- Above average household income - $1,770 weekly (vs VIC $1,759)
- High home ownership - 76.3% owned outright or with mortgage
- Predominantly separate houses - 88% (vs VIC 73.4%)
- Significant family presence - 73.3% family households
- Low unemployment rate - 4.5% (vs VIC 5.0%)
Things to be aware of
- Lower percentage of residents with bachelor degrees - 23.6% (vs VIC 29.2%)
- Limited public transport usage - 3.1%
- Lower percentage of residents born overseas - 28.5% (vs VIC 35.0%)
- Higher median age - 40 years (vs VIC 38 years)
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).
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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.