LilydaleVIC · suburb profile
VIC 3140 · Yarra Ranges
Daily life in Lilydale is family-oriented, with a strong emphasis on home ownership. The suburb has a high percentage of separate houses at 79.7%, which is above the Victorian average of 73.4%. Commuting patterns show that 56.1% of residents drive to work, while 21.4% work from home, slightly below the Victorian average of 25.7%. The community feel is enhanced by a relatively low unemployment rate of 3.4%, compared to the state average of 5.0%.
Sales · 12 months to August 2026
What property sold for in Lilydale
Houses · 179 houses sold in Lilydale at a median of $910,000, squarely mid-range for Victoria.
Most sales sit between $803,000 and $1,149,000, with the median in the middle.
Houses
$910k
median of 179 sales
0.2% up on the previous twelve months.
Dearer than 54% of the 426 suburbs we cover in Victoria.
Half sold between $803k and $1.15m.
Last sold within the past two weeks
Units
$598k
median of 44 sales
6.9% down on the previous twelve months.
Dearer than 57% of the 162 suburbs we cover in Victoria.
Half sold between $505k and $652k.
Last sold within the past month
Townhouses
$640k
median of 59 sales
0.6% down on the previous twelve months.
Cheaper than 81% of the 113 suburbs we cover in Victoria.
Half sold between $598k and $722k.
Last sold within the past two weeks
282 sales on record · data to 30 August 2026
Since 2022
How prices have moved
Houses · The longer arc runs $860,000 in 2022 to $910,000 now, a gain of 5.8%.
- 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 | $935k | $595k | $630k | |
| 2025 · part year | $893k | $620k | $644k | |
| 2024 | $865k | $670k | ||
| 2023 | $925k | $612k | $645k | |
| 2022 | $860k | $585k | $622k |
Quarter by quarter
| Quarter | Median | Sales | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 Q2 | $975k | 48 | +6% |
| 2026 Q1 | $920k | 43 | +8.2% |
| 2025 Q4 | $850k | 63 | -5.6% |
| Quarter | Median | Sales | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 Q2 | $610k | 7 | +6.3%low confidence7 sales this quarter, 6 the quarter before. Under 30 either side, the movement is mostly which homes happened to sell rather than the market moving. |
| 2026 Q1 | $574k | 6 | -6.7%low confidence6 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. |
| 2025 Q4 | $615k | 21 |
| Quarter | Median | Sales | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 Q2 | $630k | 18 | -1.6%low confidence18 sales this quarter, 12 the quarter before. Under 30 either side, the movement is mostly which homes happened to sell rather than the market moving. |
| 2026 Q1 | $640k | 12 | -8.6%low confidence12 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 | $700k | 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 Lilydale
Houses · Expect to pay around $233,000 more for a 4-bedroom house than a 3-bedroom one.
Houses
| Bedrooms | Median | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | $590k | 11 · few |
| 3 | $820k | 74 |
| 4 | $1.05m | 72 |
| 5 | $1.31m | 19 · few |
Units
| Bedrooms | Median | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $452k | 11 · few |
| 2 | $618k | 28 · few |
| 3 | $720k | 5 · few |
Townhouses
| Bedrooms | Median | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | $600k | 36 |
| 3 | $728k | 20 · 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 Lilydale
All schools · Lilydale's 8 schools teach 5,650 students, up 6.9% in ten years — and 13 government catchments cross the suburb.
Schools here
8
3 primary · 4 secondary · 1 Prep-to-12
Students, all schools
5,650
2025 · +6.9% 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?”
−5.9%
702 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.
+6.4%
865 · 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 20.7% of their students, while its schools running Prep to Year 12 have grown 87.3%.
- Primary schools
- Secondary schools
- Prep-to-12 & specialist
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| Year | Primary schools | Secondary schools | Prep-to-12 & specialist |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 885 | 4,084 | 315 |
| 2016 | 860 | 4,005 | 306 |
| 2017 | 846 | 3,911 | 276 |
| 2018 | 794 | 3,799 | 287 |
| 2019 | 782 | 3,719 | 328 |
| 2020 | 746 | 3,779 | 390 |
| 2021 | 690 | 3,890 | 429 |
| 2022 | 666 | 3,976 | 449 |
| 2023 | 671 | 4,015 | 501 |
| 2024 | 650 | 4,247 | 534 |
| 2025 | 702 | 4,358 | 590 |
Which schools in Lilydale 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 | 871 | 4,269 | 144 | 5,284 |
| 2016 | 848 | 4,176 | 147 | 5,171 |
| 2017 | 849 | 4,055 | 129 | 5,033 |
| 2018 | 828 | 3,942 | 110 | 4,880 |
| 2019 | 801 | 3,881 | 147 | 4,829 |
| 2020 | 813 | 3,984 | 118 | 4,915 |
| 2021 | 773 | 4,115 | 121 | 5,009 |
| 2022 | 764 | 4,203 | 124 | 5,091 |
| 2023 | 775 | 4,282 | 130 | 5,187 |
| 2024 | 800 | 4,504 | 127 | 5,431 |
| 2025 | 865 | 4,636 | 149 | 5,650 |
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 Lilydale
Ordered by size, not by results — 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Lilydale Mercy College | Catholic | Secondary | 1,550 | +5.1% | +7.2% | 28 · 353 |
| Lilydale High School | Government | Secondary | 1,424 | −7.8% | −31.0% | 26 · 227 |
| Lilydale Heights College | Government | Secondary | 860 | +49.6% | +86.1% | 25 · 125 |
| Edinburgh College | Independent | Prep-to-12 | 590 | +51.3% | +87.3% | 27 · 71 |
| Cire Community School | Independent | Secondary | 524 | +184.8% | +367.9% | — |
| St Patrick's School | Catholic | Primary | 250 | +3.3% | +6.8% | — |
| Victoria Road Primary School | Government | Primary | 231 | −10.1% | −38.6% | — |
| Lilydale Primary School | Government | Primary | 221 | −10.5% | −19.6% | — |
4 schools in Lilydale reported median VCE study scores of 25 to 28, against a state median of 29.
Government zoning
Which catchments cover Lilydale
13 government catchments cover Lilydale — 4 secondary and 9 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 |
|---|---|
| Lilydale Heights College | Secondary |
| Lilydale High School | Secondary |
| Mooroolbark College | Secondary |
| Yarra Hills Secondary College | Secondary |
| Bimbadeen Heights Primary School | Primary |
| Birmingham Primary School | Primary |
| Coldstream Primary School | Primary |
| Lilydale Primary School | Primary |
| Montrose Primary School | Primary |
| Mooroolbark East Primary School | Primary |
| Rolling Hills Primary School | Primary |
| Victoria Road Primary School | Primary |
| Wandin North Primary School | Primary |
The read
What living here is actually like
Lilydale is a suburb with a total population of 17,345, characterized by a median age of 40, which is slightly higher than the Victorian average of 38. The gender distribution is fairly balanced, with 48.6% male and 51.4% female residents. The suburb has a significant proportion of family households, accounting for 72.9%, with a notable 45% being couples with children. The area is predominantly Australian-born, with 79.5% of residents born in the country, compared to the Victorian average of 65%.
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
Lilydale · 0–100
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| Buyer type | Score |
|---|---|
| Families | 85 |
| Retirees | 70 |
| Professionals | 65 |
| First home buyers | 60 |
| Investors | 55 |
Why families score highest
The signals doing the work
- High percentage of family households - 72.9%
- Predominance of separate houses - 79.7%
- Above average median family income - $2,193 weekly
- Good balance of couple with children households - 45%
Against the state
How Lilydale 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 | 0.1% |
| Separate houses | 79.7% |
| Townhouses | 18.9% |
How people get to work
Method of travel, 2021 Census
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| Method | Share |
|---|---|
| Worked from home | 21.4% |
| Drove a car | 56.1% |
| Public transport | 2.5% |
| Walked only | 0.9% |
| Car passenger | 3.3% |
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 - $1,764 weekly (vs VIC $1,759)
- High proportion of separate houses - 79.7% (vs VIC 73.4%)
- Low unemployment rate - 3.4% (vs VIC 5.0%)
- Significant family presence - 45% couples with children
- Predominantly Australian-born population - 79.5%
Things to be aware of
- Lower percentage of residents with bachelor's degrees - 18.9% (vs VIC 29.2%)
- Higher median age - 40 years (vs VIC 38 years)
- Limited public transport usage - 2.5%
- Lower percentage of residents born overseas - 20.5% (vs VIC 35%)
- Relatively high median monthly mortgage - $1,950
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.