MorningtonVIC · suburb profile
VIC 3931 · Mornington Peninsula
Daily life in Mornington is likely to be relaxed, with a significant portion of the population working from home (22.4%), which is slightly below the Victorian average. The suburb has a low reliance on public transport, with only 1.2% using it for commuting, suggesting a car-dependent lifestyle. The community has a strong local feel, with 74.0% of residents born in Australia and 89.8% speaking only English at home.
Sales · 12 months to August 2026
What property sold for in Mornington
Houses · Houses in Mornington sell for a median of $1,120,000 — 26.6% above the Victorian median, and up 5.7% on the year across 250 sales.
The median hides a lot in Mornington: half of houses sold anywhere between $900,000 and $1,465,000.
Houses
$1.12m
median of 250 sales
5.7% up on the previous twelve months.
Dearer than 68% of the 426 suburbs we cover in Victoria.
Half sold between $900k and $1.47m.
Last sold within the past two weeks
Units
$730k
median of 89 sales
2.7% down on the previous twelve months.
Dearer than 90% of the 162 suburbs we cover in Victoria.
Half sold between $675k and $825k.
Last sold within the past two weeks
Townhouses
$1.05m
median of 34 sales
11.3% down on the previous twelve months.
Dearer than 80% of the 113 suburbs we cover in Victoria.
Half sold between $822k and $1.29m.
Last sold one to two months ago
373 sales on record · data to 30 August 2026
Since 2022
How prices have moved
Houses · Houses peaked earlier in the period: $1,163,000 in 2022 against $1,120,000 today, 3.7% down.
- 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 | $1.12m | $730k | $1.05m | |
| 2025 · part year | $1.10m | $742k | $1.14m | $1.05m |
| 2024 | $1.10m | $780k | $1.28m | |
| 2023 | $1.08m | $810k | $1.27m | |
| 2022 | $1.16m | $800k | $1.22m |
Quarter by quarter
| Quarter | Median | Sales | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 Q2 | $1.07m | 57 | -8.7% |
| 2026 Q1 | $1.18m | 56 | +2.2% |
| 2025 Q4 | $1.15m | 100 | +3.6% |
| Quarter | Median | Sales | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 Q2 | $749k | 16 | -5.9%low confidence16 sales this quarter, 22 the quarter before. Under 30 either side, the movement is mostly which homes happened to sell rather than the market moving. |
| 2026 Q1 | $796k | 22 | +9.8%low confidence22 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 | $725k | 33 |
| Quarter | Median | Sales | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 Q2 | $890k | 7 | -23.7%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 | $1.17m | 6 | +22.1%low confidence6 sales this quarter, 14 the quarter before. Under 30 either side, the movement is mostly which homes happened to sell rather than the market moving. |
| 2025 Q4 | $955k | 14 |
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 Mornington
Houses · Expect to pay around $240,000 more for a 4-bedroom house than a 3-bedroom one.
Houses
| Bedrooms | Median | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | $870k | 5 · few |
| 3 | $995k | 133 |
| 4 | $1.24m | 98 |
| 5 | $1.75m | 13 · few |
Units
| Bedrooms | Median | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | $706k | 61 |
| 3 | $827k | 26 · few |
Townhouses
| Bedrooms | Median | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | $1.05m | 26 · 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.
7 schools · 2025 figures
Who goes to school in Mornington
All schools · Mornington's 7 schools teach 5,049 students, down 12.1% in ten years — and 6 government catchments cross the suburb.
Schools here
7
4 primary · 2 secondary · 1 Prep-to-12
Students, all schools
5,049
2025 · −12.1% 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?”
−21.5%
1,692 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.
−22.2%
1,453 · 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.
Enrolments in Mornington have fallen 12.1% over 10 years.
- Primary schools
- Secondary schools
- Prep-to-12 & specialist
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| Year | Primary schools | Secondary schools | Prep-to-12 & specialist |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 2,053 | 3,648 | 41 |
| 2016 | 2,111 | 3,858 | 33 |
| 2017 | 2,192 | 3,932 | 35 |
| 2018 | 2,221 | 4,084 | 33 |
| 2019 | 2,195 | 4,096 | 34 |
| 2020 | 2,155 | 4,046 | 30 |
| 2021 | 2,064 | 4,010 | 29 |
| 2022 | 1,908 | 3,877 | 22 |
| 2023 | 1,853 | 3,643 | 19 |
| 2024 | 1,732 | 3,436 | 21 |
| 2025 | 1,692 | 3,333 | 24 |
Which schools in Mornington 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 | 1,707 | 3,648 | 387 | 5,742 |
| 2016 | 1,775 | 3,858 | 369 | 6,002 |
| 2017 | 1,870 | 3,932 | 357 | 6,159 |
| 2018 | 1,907 | 4,084 | 347 | 6,338 |
| 2019 | 1,894 | 4,096 | 335 | 6,325 |
| 2020 | 1,868 | 4,046 | 317 | 6,231 |
| 2021 | 1,806 | 4,010 | 287 | 6,103 |
| 2022 | 1,665 | 3,877 | 265 | 5,807 |
| 2023 | 1,588 | 3,643 | 284 | 5,515 |
| 2024 | 1,516 | 3,436 | 237 | 5,189 |
| 2025 | 1,453 | 3,333 | 263 | 5,049 |
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 7 schools in Mornington
Ordered by size, not by results — 5 government, 2 Catholic and 0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Padua College | Catholic | Secondary | 2,534 | +3.1% | +15.0% | 29 · 488 |
| Mornington Secondary College | Government | Secondary | 799 | −49.7% | −44.7% | 28 · 216 |
| Benton Junior College | Government | Primary | 585 | −32.2% | −32.1% | — |
| St Macartan's School | Catholic | Primary | 458 | −14.2% | −16.6% | — |
| Mornington Primary School | Government | Primary | 424 | −15.9% | −7.6% | — |
| Mornington Park Primary School | Government | Primary | 225 | −11.4% | +22.3% | — |
| Mornington Special Developmental School | Government | Prep-to-12 | 24 | −20.0% | −41.5% | — |
2 schools in Mornington reported median VCE study scores of 28 to 29, against a state median of 29.
Government zoning
Which catchments cover Mornington
6 government catchments cover Mornington — 1 secondary and 5 primary — so which one applies depends on the address, not the suburb. The secondary catchment is Mornington Secondary College.
| 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 |
|---|---|
| Mornington Secondary College | Secondary |
| Benton Junior College | Primary |
| Moorooduc Primary School | Primary |
| Mornington Park Primary School | Primary |
| Mornington Primary School | Primary |
| Osborne Primary School | Primary |
The read
What living here is actually like
Mornington is a suburb with a total population of 25,757, characterized by a mature demographic, with a median age of 50, significantly higher than the Victorian average of 38. The suburb has a higher proportion of females (53.6%) compared to males (46.4%). The area is predominantly made up of couple households without children, accounting for 45.3% of families, which is indicative of its appeal to older residents and retirees. Housing is primarily owner-occupied, with 41.3% of homes owned outright and 32.0% owned with a mortgage, reflecting a stable residential base.
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
Mornington · 0–100
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| Buyer type | Score |
|---|---|
| Retirees | 80 |
| Families | 65 |
| Professionals | 60 |
| Investors | 58 |
| First home buyers | 55 |
Why retirees score highest
The signals doing the work
- Median age of 50, appealing to older demographics
- High percentage of couple households without children (45.3%)
- 41.3% of homes owned outright
- Community services and healthcare are significant local industries
Against the state
How Mornington 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 | 10.6% |
| Separate houses | 77% |
| Townhouses | 11.2% |
How people get to work
Method of travel, 2021 Census
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| Method | Share |
|---|---|
| Worked from home | 22.4% |
| Drove a car | 55.2% |
| Public transport | 1.2% |
| Walked only | 1.9% |
| Car passenger | 3.2% |
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
- Low unemployment rate of 3.8% compared to the Victorian average of 5.0%
- High percentage of separate houses at 77.0%, above the state average of 73.4%
- Significant work-from-home population at 22.4%
- Predominantly English-speaking community with 89.8% speaking only English at home
- High ownership rates with 41.3% of homes owned outright
Things to be aware of
- Higher median age of 50 may not appeal to younger buyers
- Median personal weekly income of $740 is below the Victorian average
- Limited public transport usage at 1.2%
- Lower percentage of residents with a bachelor's degree or higher at 21.5%
- Relatively low cultural diversity with 74.0% born in Australia
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.