IvanhoeVIC · suburb profile
VIC 3079 · Banyule
Daily life in Ivanhoe is characterized by a strong professional presence, with 40.7% of the workforce employed as professionals. A significant 40.5% of residents work from home, much higher than the Victorian average of 25.7%. Commuting is varied, with 35.6% driving to work and 5% using public transport. The suburb has a mixed housing character, with 52.8% living in separate houses, 22.2% in townhouses, and 24.6% in apartments.
Sales · 12 months to August 2026
What property sold for in Ivanhoe
Units · Units in Ivanhoe sell for a median of $626,000 — 9.2% above the Victorian median, and up 3.9% on the year across 96 sales.
Half of all units sold between $497,000 and $813,000, a wide enough range that the midpoint is only a starting point.
Houses
$1.80m
median of 67 sales
14.1% down on the previous twelve months.
Dearer than 95% of the 426 suburbs we cover in Victoria.
Half sold between $1.40m and $2.29m.
Last sold within the past two weeks
Units
$626k
median of 96 sales
3.9% up on the previous twelve months.
Dearer than 67% of the 162 suburbs we cover in Victoria.
Half sold between $497k and $813k.
Last sold within the past two weeks
Townhouses
$1.10m
median of 36 sales
6.4% down on the previous twelve months.
Dearer than 82% of the 113 suburbs we cover in Victoria.
Half sold between $958k and $1.29m.
Last sold within the past month
199 sales on record · data to 30 August 2026
Since 2022
How prices have moved
Units · Since 2022, units have eased from $710,000 to $626,000 — 11.8% lower.
- 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 | $1.56m | $600k | $1.10m |
| 2025 · part year | $2.00m | $605k | $1.03m |
| 2024 | $1.85m | $720k | |
| 2023 | $1.75m | $740k | |
| 2022 | $1.94m | $710k |
Quarter by quarter
| Quarter | Median | Sales | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 Q2 | $1.43m | 10 | -34.5%low confidence10 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 | $2.18m | 16 | +14.7%low confidence16 sales this quarter, 33 the quarter before. Under 30 either side, the movement is mostly which homes happened to sell rather than the market moving. |
| 2025 Q4 | $1.90m | 33 |
| Quarter | Median | Sales | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 Q2 | $773k | 22 | +39%low confidence22 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. |
| 2026 Q1 | $556k | 21 | -13.3%low confidence21 sales this quarter, 43 the quarter before. Under 30 either side, the movement is mostly which homes happened to sell rather than the market moving. |
| 2025 Q4 | $641k | 43 | -9.1% |
| Quarter | Median | Sales | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 Q2 | $1.10m | 9 | -0.5%low confidence9 sales this quarter, 7 the quarter before. Under 30 either side, the movement is mostly which homes happened to sell rather than the market moving. |
| 2026 Q1 | $1.10m | 7 | +12.2%low confidence7 sales this quarter, 17 the quarter before. Under 30 either side, the movement is mostly which homes happened to sell rather than the market moving. |
| 2025 Q4 | $985k | 17 |
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 Ivanhoe
Houses
In Ivanhoe, over the last 12 months, a three-bedroom house has a median of $1.52 million from 30 sales, while a four-bedroom house has a median of $2.21 million from 22 sales.
| Bedrooms | Median | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | $1.13m | 6 · few |
| 3 | $1.52m | 30 |
| 4 | $2.21m | 22 · few |
| 5 | $2.40m | 7 · few |
Units
In Ivanhoe, over the last 12 months, a two-bedroom unit has a median of $648,000 from 54 sales, while a one-bedroom unit has a median of $410,000 from 25 sales.
| Bedrooms | Median | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $410k | 25 · few |
| 2 | $648k | 54 |
| 3 | $925k | 17 · few |
Townhouses
In Ivanhoe, over the last 12 months, a three-bedroom townhouse has a median of $1.10 million from 16 sales, while a two-bedroom townhouse has a median of $963,000 from 13 sales.
| Bedrooms | Median | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | $963k | 13 · few |
| 3 | $1.10m | 16 · few |
| 4 | $1.53m | 7 · 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 Ivanhoe
All schools · Ivanhoe's 5 schools teach 4,200 students, up 7.5% in ten years — and 6 government catchments cross the suburb.
Schools here
5
3 primary · 2 Prep-to-12
Students, all schools
4,200
2025 · +7.5% 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?”
−10.9%
850 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.
−3.4%
1,375 · Years 1–6, anywhere
1,375 children in Ivanhoe are in Years 1–6, and 850 students attend a primary school here. At least 38.2% of Ivanhoe'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 Ivanhoe have grown 7.5% 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 | 971 | 2,935 |
| 2016 | 970 | 2,935 |
| 2017 | 975 | 2,833 |
| 2018 | 996 | 2,984 |
| 2019 | 978 | 3,006 |
| 2020 | 954 | 3,015 |
| 2021 | 924 | 3,008 |
| 2022 | 892 | 3,123 |
| 2023 | 849 | 3,261 |
| 2024 | 842 | 3,311 |
| 2025 | 850 | 3,350 |
Which schools in Ivanhoe 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 | 1,441 | 2,253 | 212 | 3,906 |
| 2016 | 1,442 | 2,249 | 214 | 3,905 |
| 2017 | 1,450 | 2,128 | 230 | 3,808 |
| 2018 | 1,489 | 2,265 | 226 | 3,980 |
| 2019 | 1,451 | 2,309 | 224 | 3,984 |
| 2020 | 1,424 | 2,332 | 213 | 3,969 |
| 2021 | 1,412 | 2,310 | 210 | 3,932 |
| 2022 | 1,408 | 2,394 | 213 | 4,015 |
| 2023 | 1,390 | 2,511 | 209 | 4,110 |
| 2024 | 1,354 | 2,584 | 215 | 4,153 |
| 2025 | 1,375 | 2,619 | 206 | 4,200 |
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 Ivanhoe
Ordered by size, not by results — 1 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.
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ivanhoe Grammar School | Independent | Prep-to-12 | 2,500 | +13.7% | +25.6% | 35 · 303 |
| Ivanhoe Girls' Grammar School | Independent | Prep-to-12 | 850 | +4.0% | −10.0% | 35 · 200 |
| Ivanhoe Primary School | Government | Primary | 557 | −6.5% | −3.3% | — |
| St Bernadette's School | Catholic | Primary | 191 | −19.7% | −21.1% | — |
| Mary Immaculate School | Catholic | Primary | 102 | −15.0% | −33.3% | — |
2 schools in Ivanhoe reported median VCE study scores of 35, against a state median of 29.
Government zoning
Which catchments cover Ivanhoe
6 government catchments cover Ivanhoe — 2 secondary and 4 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 |
|---|---|
| Kew High School | Secondary |
| Thornbury High School | Secondary |
| Alphington Primary School | Primary |
| Heidelberg Primary School | Primary |
| Ivanhoe East Primary School | Primary |
| Ivanhoe Primary School | Primary |
The read
What living here is actually like
Ivanhoe is a suburb with a population of 13,380, characterized by a median age of 40, slightly older than the Victorian median of 38. The gender distribution is 47% male and 53% female. The suburb has a significant proportion of families, with 46% being couples with children and 39.7% couples without children. Single-person households account for 29.3% of the population. Education levels are high, with 49.9% holding a bachelor's degree or higher, compared to the Victorian average of 29.2%. The median household income is $2,232 per week, which is above the Victorian average of $1,759.
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
Ivanhoe · 0–100
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| Buyer type | Score |
|---|---|
| Professionals | 90 |
| Families | 85 |
| Investors | 75 |
| Retirees | 70 |
| First home buyers | 60 |
Why professionals score highest
The signals doing the work
- 40.7% of residents are professionals
- High work-from-home rate at 40.5%
- Proximity to major industries such as hospitals and higher education
- High median personal income of $1,084 weekly
Against the state
How Ivanhoe 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 | 24.6% |
| Separate houses | 52.8% |
| Townhouses | 22.2% |
How people get to work
Method of travel, 2021 Census
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| Method | Share |
|---|---|
| Worked from home | 40.5% |
| Drove a car | 35.6% |
| Public transport | 5% |
| Walked only | 3.3% |
| Car passenger | 2.1% |
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 - 49.9% hold bachelor degrees (vs VIC 29.2%)
- High median household income - $2,232 weekly (vs VIC $1,759)
- Low unemployment rate - 3.6% (vs VIC 5.0%)
- Significant work-from-home culture - 40.5% (vs VIC 25.7%)
- Diverse housing options with 24.6% in apartments
Things to be aware of
- Higher property prices may challenge first-home buyers
- Lower percentage of separate houses compared to VIC average
- High percentage of high-income households may affect affordability
- Public transport usage is relatively low at 5%
- Significant percentage of the population reports mental health conditions (9%)
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.
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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.