MentoneVIC · suburb profile
VIC 3194 · Kingston
Daily life in Mentone is marked by a strong work-from-home culture, with 35.0% of residents working from home, significantly higher than the Victorian average of 25.7%. The suburb offers a balanced lifestyle with a mix of professional and family-oriented residents. Commuting is primarily done by car, with 43.0% of residents driving, while public transport usage is relatively low at 4.1%.
Sales · 12 months to August 2026
What property sold for in Mentone
Units · Units in Mentone sell for a median of $564,000 — almost exactly the Victorian median, and down 7.2% on the year across 130 sales.
Half of all units sold between $441,000 and $729,000, a wide enough range that the midpoint is only a starting point.
Houses
$1.43m
median of 61 sales
1.1% up on the previous twelve months.
Dearer than 86% of the 426 suburbs we cover in Victoria.
Half sold between $1.21m and $1.76m.
Last sold within the past two weeks
Units
$564k
median of 130 sales
7.2% down on the previous twelve months.
Cheaper than 52% of the 162 suburbs we cover in Victoria.
Half sold between $441k and $729k.
Last sold within the past two weeks
Townhouses
$1.17m
median of 48 sales
4.1% up on the previous twelve months.
Dearer than 87% of the 113 suburbs we cover in Victoria.
Half sold between $970k and $1.39m.
Last sold within the past month
239 sales on record · data to 30 August 2026
Since 2022
How prices have moved
Units · The longer arc is downward here, $663,000 in 2022 to $564,000 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 | $1.47m | $568k | $1.17m |
| 2025 · part year | $1.42m | $585k | $1.15m |
| 2024 | $1.32m | $605k | |
| 2023 | $1.33m | $685k | |
| 2022 | $1.48m | $663k |
Quarter by quarter
| Quarter | Median | Sales | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 Q2 | $1.74m | 11 | +35.9%low confidence11 sales this quarter, 13 the quarter before. Under 30 either side, the movement is mostly which homes happened to sell rather than the market moving. |
| 2026 Q1 | $1.28m | 13 | -6.4%low confidence13 sales this quarter, 28 the quarter before. Under 30 either side, the movement is mostly which homes happened to sell rather than the market moving. |
| 2025 Q4 | $1.37m | 28 |
| Quarter | Median | Sales | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 Q2 | $602k | 32 | +15.8% |
| 2026 Q1 | $520k | 34 | -4.9% |
| 2025 Q4 | $547k | 42 | -4.9% |
| Quarter | Median | Sales | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 Q2 | $951k | 11 | -19.4%low confidence11 sales this quarter, 9 the quarter before. Under 30 either side, the movement is mostly which homes happened to sell rather than the market moving. |
| 2026 Q1 | $1.18m | 9 | +0.9%low confidence9 sales this quarter, 19 the quarter before. Under 30 either side, the movement is mostly which homes happened to sell rather than the market moving. |
| 2025 Q4 | $1.17m | 19 |
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 Mentone
Units · 2-bedroom units, the most common sale here, run about $641,000; moving from 1 to 2 bedrooms adds roughly $246,000.
Houses
| Bedrooms | Median | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | $1.20m | 20 · few |
| 4 | $1.54m | 28 · few |
| 5 | $1.98m | 9 · few |
Units
| Bedrooms | Median | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $395k | 45 |
| 2 | $641k | 80 |
Townhouses
| Bedrooms | Median | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | $799k | 6 · few |
| 3 | $1.10m | 25 · few |
| 4 | $1.43m | 16 · 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 Mentone
All schools · Mentone's 8 schools teach 7,425 students, up 11.3% in ten years — and 9 government catchments cross the suburb.
Schools here
8
3 primary · 3 secondary · 2 Prep-to-12
Students, all schools
7,425
2025 · +11.3% 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?”
−6.4%
945 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.
+1.0%
1,364 · Years 1–6, anywhere
1,364 children in Mentone are in Years 1–6, and 945 students attend a primary school here. At least 30.7% of Mentone'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.
Over 10 years the suburb's primary schools have lost 13.1% of their students, while its schools running Prep to Year 12 have grown 29%.
- Primary schools
- Secondary schools
- Prep-to-12 & specialist
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| Year | Primary schools | Secondary schools | Prep-to-12 & specialist |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,088 | 3,592 | 1,990 |
| 2016 | 1,083 | 3,635 | 2,092 |
| 2017 | 1,070 | 3,658 | 2,174 |
| 2018 | 1,028 | 3,581 | 2,259 |
| 2019 | 1,031 | 3,536 | 2,270 |
| 2020 | 1,010 | 3,547 | 2,244 |
| 2021 | 986 | 3,860 | 2,313 |
| 2022 | 951 | 3,806 | 2,368 |
| 2023 | 906 | 3,741 | 2,460 |
| 2024 | 957 | 3,825 | 2,529 |
| 2025 | 945 | 3,912 | 2,568 |
Which schools in Mentone 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 | 1,469 | 4,992 | 209 | 6,670 |
| 2016 | 1,459 | 5,139 | 212 | 6,810 |
| 2017 | 1,465 | 5,250 | 187 | 6,902 |
| 2018 | 1,433 | 5,233 | 202 | 6,868 |
| 2019 | 1,405 | 5,221 | 211 | 6,837 |
| 2020 | 1,351 | 5,232 | 218 | 6,801 |
| 2021 | 1,354 | 5,613 | 192 | 7,159 |
| 2022 | 1,356 | 5,576 | 193 | 7,125 |
| 2023 | 1,326 | 5,593 | 188 | 7,107 |
| 2024 | 1,358 | 5,739 | 214 | 7,311 |
| 2025 | 1,364 | 5,888 | 173 | 7,425 |
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 Mentone
Ordered by size, not by results — 3 government, 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mentone Grammar School | Independent | Prep-to-12 | 2,008 | +29.5% | +52.7% | 34 · 345 |
| St Bede's College | Catholic | Secondary | 1,882 | +20.2% | +25.1% | 30 · 397 |
| Mentone Girls Secondary College | Government | Secondary | 1,102 | +1.4% | −0.9% | 31 · 299 |
| Kilbreda College | Catholic | Secondary | 928 | +3.8% | −4.9% | 32 · 211 |
| Mentone Girls' Grammar School | Independent | Prep-to-12 | 560 | −19.2% | −17.0% | 35 · 127 |
| St Patrick's School | Catholic | Primary | 460 | +23.3% | +34.1% | — |
| Mentone Primary School | Government | Primary | 299 | −30.8% | −31.6% | — |
| Mentone Park Primary School | Government | Primary | 186 | −9.3% | −39.6% | — |
5 schools in Mentone reported median VCE study scores of 30 to 35, against a state median of 29.
Government zoning
Which catchments cover Mentone
9 government catchments cover Mentone, 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 |
|---|---|
| Beaumaris Secondary College | Secondary |
| Cheltenham Secondary College | Secondary |
| Parkdale Secondary College | Secondary |
| Beaumaris Primary School | Primary |
| Cheltenham Primary School | Primary |
| Mentone Park Primary School | Primary |
| Mentone Primary School | Primary |
| Parktone Primary School | Primary |
| Mentone Girls Secondary College | Other |
The read
What living here is actually like
Mentone is a suburb with a population of 13,200, characterized by a slightly older median age of 42 compared to the Victorian average of 38. The community is predominantly female, with women making up 52.6% of the population. Families are a significant part of the community, with 42.0% of households being couples with children and 40.6% being couples without children. The area has a diverse housing mix, with 44.0% separate houses, 37.2% townhouses, and 18.2% apartments.
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
Mentone · 0–100
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| Buyer type | Score |
|---|---|
| Professionals | 80 |
| Families | 75 |
| Investors | 70 |
| Retirees | 65 |
| First home buyers | 60 |
Why professionals score highest
The signals doing the work
- 29.6% of residents are professionals
- High work-from-home rate at 35.0%
- Above average educational attainment
- Proximity to industries like computer system design
Against the state
How Mentone 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 | 18.2% |
| Separate houses | 44% |
| Townhouses | 37.2% |
How people get to work
Method of travel, 2021 Census
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| Method | Share |
|---|---|
| Worked from home | 35% |
| Drove a car | 43% |
| Public transport | 4.1% |
| Walked only | 2.2% |
| Car passenger | 2.3% |
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
- High education levels - 35.8% hold bachelor degrees or higher (vs VIC 29.2%)
- Above average weekly household income - $1,889 (vs VIC $1,759)
- Low unemployment rate - 4.1% (vs VIC 5.0%)
- Significant work-from-home population - 35.0% (vs VIC 25.7%)
- Diverse housing options with 44.0% separate houses and 37.2% townhouses
Things to be aware of
- Higher median age may not appeal to younger demographics
- Lower percentage of separate houses compared to VIC average (44.0% vs 73.4%)
- Rented properties slightly above VIC average (32.2% vs 28.5%)
- Public transport usage is low at 4.1%
- Higher median monthly mortgage of $2,167 may be a barrier for some buyers
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.