HawthornVIC · suburb profile
VIC 3122 · Boroondara
Daily life in Hawthorn is marked by a strong work-from-home culture, with 43.7% of residents working remotely, significantly higher than the Victorian average of 25.7%. The suburb has a diverse community feel, with a mix of local and overseas-born residents, and a variety of languages spoken at home. Commuting is facilitated by public transport, used by 8.6% of the population, although a significant portion of residents, 27.3%, drive to work.
Sales · 12 months to August 2026
What property sold for in Hawthorn
Units · Units in Hawthorn sell for a median of $560,000, almost exactly the Victorian median, and have held roughly steady over the year.
The median hides a lot in Hawthorn: half of units sold anywhere between $410,000 and $669,000.
Houses
$2.29m
median of 36 sales
22.1% down on the previous twelve months.
Dearer than 99% of the 426 suburbs we cover in Victoria.
Half sold between $1.76m and $3.10m.
Last sold within the past month
Units
$560k
median of 254 sales
1.2% up on the previous twelve months.
Cheaper than 55% of the 162 suburbs we cover in Victoria.
Half sold between $410k and $669k.
Last sold within the past two weeks
Townhouses
$1.25m
median of 11 sales
Too few sales to be reliable — treat as a rough guide
Half sold between $1.04m and $1.44m.
Last sold two to four months ago
301 sales on record · data to 30 August 2026
Since 2022
How prices have moved
Units · The longer arc is downward here, $605,000 in 2022 to $560,000 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 | $1.87m | $565k | $1.00m |
| 2025 · part year | $2.86m | $557k | $1.33m |
| 2024 | $2.90m | $580k | |
| 2023 | $2.91m | $588k | |
| 2022 | $2.50m | $605k |
Quarter by quarter
| Quarter | Median | Sales | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 Q4 | $2.31m | 20 |
| Quarter | Median | Sales | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 Q2 | $600k | 47 | +11.1% |
| 2026 Q1 | $540k | 45 | -4.1% |
| 2025 Q4 | $563k | 127 | -2.6% |
| Quarter | Median | Sales | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 Q4 | $1.31m | 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 Hawthorn
Units · 2-bedroom units, the most common sale here, run about $625,000; moving from 1 to 2 bedrooms adds roughly $230,000.
Houses
| Bedrooms | Median | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | $1.52m | 6 · few |
| 3 | $1.86m | 13 · few |
| 4 | $2.77m | 11 · few |
| 5 | $5.47m | 6 · few |
Units
| Bedrooms | Median | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $395k | 101 |
| 2 | $625k | 143 |
| 3 | $990k | 9 · few |
Townhouses
| Bedrooms | Median | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | $1.00m | 5 · 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.
8 schools · 2025 figures
Who goes to school in Hawthorn
All schools · Hawthorn's 8 schools teach 4,624 students, up 3.3% in ten years — and 10 government catchments cross the suburb.
Schools here
8
4 primary · 2 secondary · 2 Prep-to-12
Students, all schools
4,624
2025 · +3.3% 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?”
−16.0%
1,159 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.
−5.6%
1,814 · Years 1–6, anywhere
1,814 children in Hawthorn are in Years 1–6, and 1,159 students attend a primary school here. At least 36.1% of Hawthorn'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 Hawthorn have grown 3.3% over 10 years, with the movement at the secondary end.
- Primary schools
- Secondary schools
- Prep-to-12 & specialist
Show data table
| Year | Primary schools | Secondary schools | Prep-to-12 & specialist |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,202 | 551 | 2,722 |
| 2016 | 1,304 | 543 | 2,723 |
| 2017 | 1,359 | 536 | 2,757 |
| 2018 | 1,383 | 538 | 2,733 |
| 2019 | 1,412 | 546 | 2,752 |
| 2020 | 1,379 | 539 | 2,795 |
| 2021 | 1,328 | 524 | 2,801 |
| 2022 | 1,220 | 527 | 2,808 |
| 2023 | 1,210 | 521 | 2,772 |
| 2024 | 1,220 | 505 | 2,848 |
| 2025 | 1,159 | 521 | 2,944 |
Which schools in Hawthorn 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 | 1,782 | 2,399 | 294 | 4,475 |
| 2016 | 1,834 | 2,394 | 342 | 4,570 |
| 2017 | 1,910 | 2,413 | 329 | 4,652 |
| 2018 | 1,915 | 2,408 | 331 | 4,654 |
| 2019 | 1,942 | 2,439 | 329 | 4,710 |
| 2020 | 1,922 | 2,483 | 308 | 4,713 |
| 2021 | 1,870 | 2,477 | 306 | 4,653 |
| 2022 | 1,810 | 2,468 | 277 | 4,555 |
| 2023 | 1,774 | 2,453 | 276 | 4,503 |
| 2024 | 1,782 | 2,501 | 290 | 4,573 |
| 2025 | 1,814 | 2,578 | 232 | 4,624 |
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 8 schools in Hawthorn
Ordered by size, not by results — 3 government, 1 Catholic and 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scotch College | Independent | Prep-to-12 | 1,957 | +4.2% | +4.6% | 34 · 450 |
| Bialik College | Independent | Prep-to-12 | 987 | +7.8% | +16.0% | 36 · 174 |
| Hawthorn West Primary School | Government | Primary | 454 | −9.2% | +20.4% | — |
| Swinburne Senior Secondary College | Government | Secondary | 374 | −9.4% | −11.4% | 28 · 241 |
| St Joseph's School | Catholic | Primary | 369 | −12.4% | −1.3% | — |
| Glenferrie Primary School | Government | Primary | 244 | −28.2% | −32.6% | — |
| Rossbourne School | Independent | Secondary | 147 | +16.7% | +14.0% | — |
| Erasmus Primary School | Independent | Primary | 92 | −22.0% | +3.4% | — |
3 schools in Hawthorn reported median VCE study scores of 28 to 36, against a state median of 29.
Government zoning
Which catchments cover Hawthorn
10 government catchments cover Hawthorn, 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 |
|---|---|
| Auburn High School | Secondary |
| Richmond High School | Secondary |
| Auburn Primary School | Primary |
| Auburn South Primary School | Primary |
| Glenferrie Primary School | Primary |
| Hawthorn West Primary School | Primary |
| Yarra Primary School | Primary |
| Canterbury Girls Secondary College | Other |
| Melbourne Girls College | Other |
| Swinburne Senior Secondary College | Other |
The read
What living here is actually like
Hawthorn is a vibrant suburb with a population of 22,323 and a median age of 34, which is younger than the Victorian average of 38. The suburb is characterized by a high percentage of professionals, with 42.7% of the workforce employed in this sector. The area has a significant number of residents with higher education, as 56.2% hold a bachelor's degree or higher, compared to the Victorian average of 29.2%. The suburb's housing is predominantly apartments, making up 59.1% of the dwellings, and a large portion of the population, 45.6%, are renters.
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
Hawthorn · 0–100
Show data table
| Buyer type | Score |
|---|---|
| Professionals | 85 |
| Investors | 80 |
| Families | 65 |
| Retirees | 60 |
| First home buyers | 55 |
Why professionals score highest
The signals doing the work
- 42.7% of residents are professionals
- High percentage of work-from-home opportunities - 43.7%
- Access to top industries like legal services and higher education
- High median personal income of $1,207 weekly
Against the state
How Hawthorn 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 | 59.1% |
| Separate houses | 24.3% |
| Townhouses | 16.1% |
How people get to work
Method of travel, 2021 Census
Show data table
| Method | Share |
|---|---|
| Worked from home | 43.7% |
| Drove a car | 27.3% |
| Public transport | 8.6% |
| Walked only | 4.6% |
| Car passenger | 1.5% |
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
- Highly educated population - 56.2% hold bachelor degrees (vs VIC 29.2%)
- High median household income - $2,145 weekly (vs VIC $1,759)
- Significant work-from-home culture - 43.7% (vs VIC 25.7%)
- Predominantly apartment living - 59.1% of housing
- Diverse cultural background with 67.9% born in Australia
Things to be aware of
- Higher rental market presence - 45.6% rented properties
- Lower percentage of separate houses - 24.3% (vs VIC 73.4%)
- Higher median weekly rent - $400
- Unemployment rate slightly below average - 4.7% (vs VIC 5.0%)
- High percentage of single-person households - 38.3%
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.