MulgraveVIC · suburb profile
VIC 3170 · Monash
Daily life in Mulgrave is family-oriented, with a strong sense of community. The suburb has a high rate of home ownership, with 38% of homes owned outright and 36.8% owned with a mortgage. Commuting is primarily done by car, with 52.7% of residents driving to work, while 27.1% work from home, reflecting modern work patterns. Public transport usage is relatively low at 3.9%.
Sales · 12 months to August 2026
What property sold for in Mulgrave
Houses · The median house in Mulgrave went for $1,149,000 over the 12 months to August 2026 — dearer than 70% of the suburbs we cover, and much where it sat a year earlier.
The middle half of houses sold between $1,001,000 and $1,312,000.
Houses
$1.15m
median of 170 sales
1% down on the previous twelve months.
Dearer than 70% of the 426 suburbs we cover in Victoria.
Half sold between $1.00m and $1.31m.
Last sold within the past two weeks
Units
$717k
median of 21 sales
Too few sales to be reliable — treat as a rough guide
Half sold between $685k and $820k.
Last sold one to two months ago
Townhouses
$955k
median of 50 sales
2.6% down on the previous twelve months.
Dearer than 71% of the 113 suburbs we cover in Victoria.
Half sold between $855k and $1.17m.
Last sold within the past two weeks
241 sales on record · data to 30 August 2026
Since 2022
How prices have moved
Houses · Houses peaked earlier in the period: $1,176,000 in 2025 against $1,149,000 today, 2.3% down.
- 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 | $1.11m | $705k | $954k |
| 2025 · part year | $1.18m | $690k | $975k |
| 2024 | $864k | ||
| 2023 | $750k | ||
| 2022 | $795k |
Quarter by quarter
| Quarter | Median | Sales | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 Q2 | $1.03m | 35 | -13.2% |
| 2026 Q1 | $1.19m | 43 | +0.6% |
| 2025 Q4 | $1.18m | 65 | -0.7% |
| Quarter | Median | Sales | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 Q1 | $820k | 7 | +8%low confidence7 sales this quarter, 8 the quarter before. Under 30 either side, the movement is mostly which homes happened to sell rather than the market moving. |
| 2025 Q4 | $759k | 8 |
| Quarter | Median | Sales | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 Q2 | $1.02m | 13 | +11.3%low confidence13 sales this quarter, 11 the quarter before. Under 30 either side, the movement is mostly which homes happened to sell rather than the market moving. |
| 2026 Q1 | $921k | 11 | -3.1%low confidence11 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 | $950k | 21 |
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 Mulgrave
Houses · The step from 3 to 4 bedrooms is the expensive one in Mulgrave, worth about $180,000.
Houses
| Bedrooms | Median | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | $1.02m | 77 |
| 4 | $1.21m | 66 |
| 5 | $1.60m | 25 · few |
Units
| Bedrooms | Median | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | $685k | 11 · few |
| 3 | $823k | 10 · few |
Townhouses
| Bedrooms | Median | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | $878k | 22 · few |
| 4 | $1.18m | 25 · 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 Mulgrave
All schools · Mulgrave's 5 schools teach 4,162 students, up 6.2% in ten years — and 12 government catchments cross the suburb.
Schools here
5
3 primary · 2 secondary
Students, all schools
4,162
2025 · +6.2% 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?”
−7.0%
1,050 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.
−3.7%
917 · 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 Mulgrave have grown 6.2% over 10 years.
- Primary schools
- Secondary schools
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| Year | Primary schools | Secondary schools |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 999 | 2,920 |
| 2016 | 1,023 | 3,045 |
| 2017 | 1,054 | 3,223 |
| 2018 | 1,086 | 3,254 |
| 2019 | 1,137 | 3,283 |
| 2020 | 1,129 | 3,330 |
| 2021 | 1,110 | 3,298 |
| 2022 | 1,100 | 3,196 |
| 2023 | 1,092 | 3,122 |
| 2024 | 1,081 | 3,110 |
| 2025 | 1,050 | 3,112 |
Which schools in Mulgrave 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 | 847 | 2,920 | 152 | 3,919 |
| 2016 | 860 | 3,045 | 163 | 4,068 |
| 2017 | 907 | 3,223 | 147 | 4,277 |
| 2018 | 914 | 3,254 | 172 | 4,340 |
| 2019 | 969 | 3,283 | 168 | 4,420 |
| 2020 | 952 | 3,330 | 177 | 4,459 |
| 2021 | 955 | 3,298 | 155 | 4,408 |
| 2022 | 939 | 3,196 | 161 | 4,296 |
| 2023 | 953 | 3,122 | 139 | 4,214 |
| 2024 | 928 | 3,110 | 153 | 4,191 |
| 2025 | 917 | 3,112 | 133 | 4,162 |
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 Mulgrave
Ordered by size, not by results — 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wellington Secondary College | Government | Secondary | 1,643 | −13.0% | +1.8% | 29 · 392 |
| Mazenod College | Catholic | Secondary | 1,469 | +1.9% | +12.5% | 33 · 421 |
| Mulgrave Primary School | Government | Primary | 426 | −0.2% | +51.1% | — |
| St John Vianney's School | Catholic | Primary | 417 | −1.7% | −1.7% | — |
| Albany Rise Primary School | Government | Primary | 207 | −25.5% | −29.4% | — |
2 schools in Mulgrave reported median VCE study scores of 29 to 33, against a state median of 29.
Government zoning
Which catchments cover Mulgrave
12 government catchments cover Mulgrave — 6 secondary and 6 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 |
|---|---|
| Brentwood Secondary College | Secondary |
| Carwatha College P-12 | Secondary |
| Lyndale Secondary College | Secondary |
| Wellington Secondary College | Secondary |
| Westall Secondary College | Secondary |
| Wheelers Hill Secondary College | Secondary |
| Albany Rise Primary School | Primary |
| Brandon Park Primary School | Primary |
| Mulgrave Primary School | Primary |
| Rosewood Downs Primary School | Primary |
| Springvale Rise Primary School | Primary |
| Waverley Meadows Primary School | Primary |
The read
What living here is actually like
Mulgrave is a suburb with a population of 19,885, characterized by a median age of 40, slightly above the Victorian median of 38. The community is balanced in gender distribution with 50.2% male and 49.8% female. Families are predominant, with 50% of households being couples with children and 34.1% being couples without children. The suburb has a diverse cultural background, with 49.7% of residents born overseas, significantly higher than the Victorian average of 35%. The most common countries of birth outside Australia are China, India, and Sri Lanka.
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
Mulgrave · 0–100
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| Buyer type | Score |
|---|---|
| Families | 85 |
| Professionals | 80 |
| Investors | 70 |
| Retirees | 65 |
| First home buyers | 60 |
Why families score highest
The signals doing the work
- 50% of households are couples with children
- High percentage of family households at 78.9%
- Average household size of 2.8 people
- Predominantly owner-occupied housing
Against the state
How Mulgrave 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 | 0.3% |
| Separate houses | 83% |
| Townhouses | 16.4% |
How people get to work
Method of travel, 2021 Census
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| Method | Share |
|---|---|
| Worked from home | 27.1% |
| Drove a car | 52.7% |
| Public transport | 3.9% |
| Walked only | 0.8% |
| 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
- Above average education levels - 32.7% hold bachelor degrees or higher (vs VIC 29.2%)
- High median household income of $1,913 weekly (vs VIC $1,759)
- Diverse cultural community with 49.7% born overseas
- Predominantly owner-occupied housing - 74.8% owned outright or with a mortgage
- Significant professional workforce - 26.7% employed as professionals
Things to be aware of
- Higher median age may not appeal to younger demographics
- Low public transport usage could be a concern for non-drivers
- Limited apartment living options with only 0.3% apartments
- Relatively high median monthly mortgage of $2,167
- Moderate unemployment rate at 5.1%
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.
Want to dig into one address in Mulgrave?
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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.