RowvilleVIC · suburb profile
VIC 3178 · Knox
Daily life in Rowville is centered around family and community activities, with a high percentage of residents (56.0%) commuting by car, reflecting the suburb's suburban layout and reliance on personal vehicles. A significant portion of the workforce, 25.6%, works from home, which may contribute to a quieter, residential feel during weekdays. The suburb's employment landscape is diverse, with a strong presence of professionals, clerical workers, and managers.
Sales · 12 months to August 2026
What property sold for in Rowville
Houses · Houses in Rowville sell for a median of $1,150,000 — 29.9% above the Victorian median, and down 2.5% on the year across 271 sales.
Most sales sit between $988,000 and $1,318,000, with the median in the middle.
Houses
$1.15m
median of 271 sales
2.5% down on the previous twelve months.
Dearer than 70% of the 426 suburbs we cover in Victoria.
Half sold between $988k and $1.32m.
Last sold within the past two weeks
Units
$480k
median of 27 sales
Too few sales to be reliable — treat as a rough guide
Half sold between $423k and $747k.
Last sold within the past month
Townhouses
$850k
median of 36 sales
3.7% up on the previous twelve months.
Dearer than 58% of the 113 suburbs we cover in Victoria.
Half sold between $769k and $875k.
Last sold within the past two weeks
Land
$835k
median of 13 sales
Too few sales to be reliable — treat as a rough guide
Half sold between $675k and $900k.
Last sold one to two months ago
347 sales on record · data to 30 August 2026
Since 2022
How prices have moved
Houses · Houses have added 6.5% since 2022, $1,080,000 to $1,150,000.
- 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 | $1.09m | $495k | $829k | $805k |
| 2025 · part year | $1.20m | $524k | $850k | $860k |
| 2024 | $1.05m | $690k | $797k | |
| 2023 | $1.09m | $725k | $721k | |
| 2022 | $1.08m | $663k | $654k |
Quarter by quarter
| Quarter | Median | Sales | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 Q2 | $1.09m | 63 | -6.8% |
| 2026 Q1 | $1.17m | 66 | -4.5% |
| 2025 Q4 | $1.23m | 78 | +2.6% |
| Quarter | Median | Sales | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 Q1 | $601k | 12 | +36%low confidence12 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. |
| 2025 Q4 | $442k | 9 |
| Quarter | Median | Sales | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 Q2 | $780k | 5 | -10.3%low confidence5 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 | $870k | 13 | +2%low confidence13 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. |
| 2025 Q4 | $853k | 12 |
| Quarter | Median | Sales | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 Q1 | $850k | 5 |
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 Rowville
Houses · The step from 3 to 4 bedrooms is the expensive one in Rowville, worth about $235,000.
Houses
| Bedrooms | Median | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | $978k | 88 |
| 4 | $1.21m | 133 |
| 5 | $1.34m | 41 |
| 6 | $1.67m | 5 · few |
Units
| Bedrooms | Median | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | $442k | 15 · few |
| 3 | $781k | 10 · few |
Townhouses
| Bedrooms | Median | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | $588k | 7 · few |
| 3 | $851k | 27 · 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.
6 schools · 2025 figures
Who goes to school in Rowville
All schools · Rowville's 6 schools teach 3,955 students, down 11.7% in ten years — and 7 government catchments cross the suburb.
Schools here
6
5 primary · 1 secondary
Students, all schools
3,955
2025 · −11.7% 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?”
−14.4%
2,068 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.
−14.2%
1,800 · 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 Rowville have fallen 11.7% over 10 years, with the movement at the secondary end.
- Primary schools
- Secondary schools
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| Year | Primary schools | Secondary schools |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 2,693 | 1,786 |
| 2016 | 2,687 | 1,783 |
| 2017 | 2,623 | 1,802 |
| 2018 | 2,599 | 1,765 |
| 2019 | 2,531 | 1,797 |
| 2020 | 2,416 | 1,836 |
| 2021 | 2,300 | 1,803 |
| 2022 | 2,197 | 1,777 |
| 2023 | 2,151 | 1,813 |
| 2024 | 2,110 | 1,832 |
| 2025 | 2,068 | 1,887 |
Which schools in Rowville 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 | 2,332 | 1,786 | 361 | 4,479 |
| 2016 | 2,310 | 1,783 | 377 | 4,470 |
| 2017 | 2,294 | 1,802 | 329 | 4,425 |
| 2018 | 2,240 | 1,765 | 359 | 4,364 |
| 2019 | 2,218 | 1,797 | 313 | 4,328 |
| 2020 | 2,098 | 1,836 | 318 | 4,252 |
| 2021 | 1,974 | 1,803 | 326 | 4,103 |
| 2022 | 1,900 | 1,777 | 297 | 3,974 |
| 2023 | 1,863 | 1,813 | 288 | 3,964 |
| 2024 | 1,842 | 1,832 | 268 | 3,942 |
| 2025 | 1,800 | 1,887 | 268 | 3,955 |
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 6 schools in Rowville
Ordered by size, not by results — 5 government, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rowville Secondary College | Government | Secondary | 1,887 | +2.8% | +5.7% | 25 · 371 |
| Park Ridge Primary School | Government | Primary | 527 | −13.2% | −12.0% | — |
| Rowville Primary School | Government | Primary | 439 | +9.2% | −1.6% | — |
| Karoo Primary School | Government | Primary | 422 | −19.2% | −22.1% | — |
| St Simon's School | Catholic | Primary | 366 | −30.8% | −43.2% | — |
| Heany Park Primary School | Government | Primary | 314 | −11.8% | −32.0% | — |
One school in Rowville reported a median VCE study score of 25, against a state median of 29.
Government zoning
Which catchments cover Rowville
7 government catchments cover Rowville — 1 secondary and 6 primary — so which one applies depends on the address, not the suburb. The secondary catchment is Rowville 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 |
|---|---|
| Rowville Secondary College | Secondary |
| Heany Park Primary School | Primary |
| Karoo Primary School | Primary |
| Lysterfield Primary School | Primary |
| Park Ridge Primary School | Primary |
| Rosewood Downs Primary School | Primary |
| Rowville Primary School | Primary |
The read
What living here is actually like
Rowville is a suburb with a population of 33,570, characterized by a median age of 41, which is slightly higher than the Victorian average of 38. The suburb has a balanced gender distribution with 49.3% males and 50.7% females. Families are a significant part of the community, with 54.1% of households being couples with children, which is notably higher than the state average. The area is predominantly composed of separate houses, accounting for 91.8% of the housing stock, indicating a strong preference for standalone homes.
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
Rowville · 0–100
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| Buyer type | Score |
|---|---|
| Families | 85 |
| Professionals | 75 |
| Investors | 70 |
| Retirees | 65 |
| First home buyers | 60 |
Why families score highest
The signals doing the work
- High percentage of family households - 83.3%
- Large homes with an average of 3.6 bedrooms
- Above average household income supports family living
- Strong community feel with a high percentage of couples with children
Against the state
How Rowville 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 | 0.9% |
| Separate houses | 91.8% |
| Townhouses | 7.2% |
How people get to work
Method of travel, 2021 Census
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| Method | Share |
|---|---|
| Worked from home | 25.6% |
| Drove a car | 56% |
| Public transport | 2.1% |
| Car passenger | 3.5% |
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 - $2,205 weekly (vs VIC $1,759)
- High home ownership - 81.1% owned outright or with a mortgage
- Predominantly family-oriented - 54.1% of households are couples with children
- High labour force participation - 68.0% (vs VIC average)
- Significant work-from-home culture - 25.6% of workers
Things to be aware of
- Higher median age may not appeal to younger buyers
- Limited public transport usage - only 2.1% use it for commuting
- Low percentage of apartments - 0.9%, limiting options for downsizers
- Higher median rent - $441 weekly, which may impact affordability
- Limited diversity in housing types with 91.8% separate houses
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.