St AlbansVIC · suburb profile
VIC 3021 · Brimbank
Daily life in St Albans involves a mix of commuting and local employment, with 58.2% of residents driving to work and 10.1% using public transport. The suburb has a strong community feel, with a significant proportion of the population working in local industries such as cafes, restaurants, and hospitals. The area has a diverse range of occupations, with labourers, technicians, and trades workers being the most common. The suburb's cultural diversity is reflected in the variety of languages spoken at home, with Vietnamese being the most prevalent.
Sales · 12 months to August 2026
What property sold for in St Albans
Houses · Across 340 sales, houses in St Albans reached a median of $745,000, 3.5% up year on year and cheaper than 69% of the suburbs we cover.
Half the houses sold fell in a narrow $689,000 to $820,000 band.
Houses
$745k
median of 340 sales
3.5% up on the previous twelve months.
Cheaper than 69% of the 426 suburbs we cover in Victoria.
Half sold between $689k and $820k.
Last sold within the past two weeks
Units
$528k
median of 123 sales
1.5% up on the previous twelve months.
Cheaper than 68% of the 162 suburbs we cover in Victoria.
Half sold between $459k and $603k.
Last sold within the past two weeks
Townhouses
$600k
median of 61 sales
0.8% up on the previous twelve months.
Cheaper than 88% of the 113 suburbs we cover in Victoria.
Half sold between $560k and $670k.
Last sold within the past two weeks
Land
$688k
median of 9 sales
Too few sales to be reliable — treat as a rough guide
Half sold between $640k and $770k.
Last sold two to four months ago
533 sales on record · data to 30 August 2026
Since 2022
How prices have moved
Houses · The longer arc runs $682,000 in 2022 to $745,000 now, a gain of 9.2%.
- 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 | $745k | $525k | $628k | $700k |
| 2025 · part year | $730k | $523k | $595k | $615k |
| 2024 | $652k | $500k | ||
| 2023 | $645k | $484k | ||
| 2022 | $682k | $490k |
Quarter by quarter
| Quarter | Median | Sales | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 Q2 | $750k | 69 | +0.7% |
| 2026 Q1 | $745k | 99 | 0% |
| 2025 Q4 | $745k | 128 | -0.1% |
| Quarter | Median | Sales | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 Q2 | $535k | 27 | +9.6%low confidence27 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. |
| 2026 Q1 | $488k | 28 | -7.6%low confidence28 sales this quarter, 47 the quarter before. Under 30 either side, the movement is mostly which homes happened to sell rather than the market moving. |
| 2025 Q4 | $528k | 47 | +0.6% |
| Quarter | Median | Sales | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 Q2 | $600k | 12 | -12.4%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. |
| 2026 Q1 | $685k | 9 | +22.3%low confidence9 sales this quarter, 24 the quarter before. Under 30 either side, the movement is mostly which homes happened to sell rather than the market moving. |
| 2025 Q4 | $560k | 24 |
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 St Albans
Houses · Going from 3 to 4 bedrooms adds only about $53,000 here — a small step for an extra room.
Houses
| Bedrooms | Median | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | $551k | 20 · few |
| 3 | $730k | 208 |
| 4 | $783k | 82 |
| 5 | $830k | 20 · few |
| 6 | $933k | 7 · few |
Units
| Bedrooms | Median | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | $472k | 53 |
| 3 | $576k | 57 |
| 4 | $695k | 9 · few |
Townhouses
| Bedrooms | Median | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | $550k | 21 · few |
| 3 | $640k | 35 |
| 4 | $731k | 5 · 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.
14 schools · 2025 figures
Who goes to school in St Albans
All schools · St Albans' 14 schools teach 6,992 students, up 15.3% in ten years — and 12 government catchments cross the suburb.
Schools here
14
10 primary · 3 secondary · 1 Prep-to-12
Students, all schools
6,992
2025 · +15.3% 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?”
−13.5%
3,023 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.
−10.2%
2,667 · 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 St Albans have grown 15.3% over 10 years, with the movement at the secondary end.
- Primary schools
- Secondary schools
- Prep-to-12 & specialist
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| Year | Primary schools | Secondary schools | Prep-to-12 & specialist |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 3,094 | 2,679 | 289 |
| 2016 | 3,138 | 2,742 | 281 |
| 2017 | 3,281 | 2,841 | 268 |
| 2018 | 3,444 | 2,858 | 255 |
| 2019 | 3,482 | 2,942 | 255 |
| 2020 | 3,495 | 3,069 | 260 |
| 2021 | 3,379 | 3,037 | 273 |
| 2022 | 3,257 | 3,155 | 277 |
| 2023 | 3,285 | 3,200 | 286 |
| 2024 | 3,239 | 3,401 | 320 |
| 2025 | 3,023 | 3,647 | 322 |
Which schools in St Albans 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 | 2,617 | 2,679 | 766 | 6,062 |
| 2016 | 2,664 | 2,742 | 755 | 6,161 |
| 2017 | 2,754 | 2,841 | 795 | 6,390 |
| 2018 | 2,847 | 2,858 | 852 | 6,557 |
| 2019 | 2,973 | 2,942 | 764 | 6,679 |
| 2020 | 2,969 | 3,069 | 786 | 6,824 |
| 2021 | 2,874 | 3,037 | 778 | 6,689 |
| 2022 | 2,840 | 3,155 | 694 | 6,689 |
| 2023 | 2,857 | 3,200 | 714 | 6,771 |
| 2024 | 2,858 | 3,401 | 701 | 6,960 |
| 2025 | 2,667 | 3,647 | 678 | 6,992 |
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 14 schools in St Albans
Ordered by size, not by results — 11 government, 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Albans Secondary College | Government | Secondary | 1,715 | +9.3% | +39.8% | 30 · 291 |
| Victoria University Secondary College | Government | Secondary | 1,350 | +35.7% | +41.7% | — |
| Catholic Regional College St Albans | Catholic | Secondary | 582 | +15.2% | +16.6% | — |
| Holy Eucharist School | Catholic | Primary | 548 | +7.2% | +48.5% | — |
| St Albans Meadows Primary School | Government | Primary | 425 | −10.7% | +1.0% | — |
| Kings Park Primary School | Government | Primary | 367 | −21.9% | −20.2% | — |
| St Albans East Primary School | Government | Primary | 354 | −15.9% | −11.9% | — |
| Jackson School | Government | Prep-to-12 | 322 | +23.8% | +11.4% | — |
| Sacred Heart School | Catholic | Primary | 282 | −5.7% | +21.0% | — |
| St Albans Primary School | Government | Primary | 256 | −19.7% | −3.8% | — |
| University Park Primary School | Government | Primary | 229 | −19.6% | −1.7% | — |
| St Albans Heights Primary School | Government | Primary | 213 | −22.5% | −19.6% | — |
| Stevensville Primary School | Government | Primary | 185 | −9.3% | −20.6% | — |
| St Albans North Primary School | Government | Primary | 164 | −30.2% | −22.6% | — |
One school in St Albans reported a median VCE study score of 30, against a state median of 29.
Government zoning
Which catchments cover St Albans
12 government catchments cover St Albans — 4 secondary and 8 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 |
|---|---|
| Copperfield College | Secondary |
| Keilor Downs Secondary College | Secondary |
| St Albans Secondary College | Secondary |
| Victoria University Secondary College | Secondary |
| Albanvale Primary School | Primary |
| St Albans East Primary School | Primary |
| St Albans Heights Primary School | Primary |
| St Albans Meadows Primary School | Primary |
| St Albans North Primary School | Primary |
| St Albans Primary School | Primary |
| Stevensville Primary School | Primary |
| University Park Primary School | Primary |
The read
What living here is actually like
St Albans is a culturally diverse suburb with a population of 38,036. The median age is 36, slightly younger than the Victorian average of 38. The suburb has a balanced gender distribution with 50.3% male and 49.7% female residents. A significant portion of the population, 67.5%, was born overseas, with Vietnam being the most common country of origin. The suburb has a mix of family types, with 41.4% of households being couples with children and 24.7% being single-parent families. The average household size is 2.8 people.
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
St Albans · 0–100
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| Buyer type | Score |
|---|---|
| Families | 75 |
| Investors | 70 |
| First home buyers | 65 |
| Professionals | 60 |
| Retirees | 55 |
Why families score highest
The signals doing the work
- 41.4% of households are couples with children
- Average household size of 2.8
- Variety of housing options suitable for families
- Community services and schools available
Against the state
How St Albans 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 | 9.1% |
| Separate houses | 74.5% |
| Townhouses | 15.9% |
How people get to work
Method of travel, 2021 Census
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| Method | Share |
|---|---|
| Worked from home | 12% |
| Drove a car | 58.2% |
| Public transport | 10.1% |
| Walked only | 1% |
| Car passenger | 5.9% |
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
- Culturally diverse population - 67.5% born overseas
- High proportion of family households - 71.5%
- Significant Vietnamese community - 21.5% born in Vietnam
- Mixed housing options - 74.5% separate houses, 15.9% townhouses
- Above average health - 62.1% report no health conditions
Things to be aware of
- Higher unemployment rate at 10.8% compared to state average
- Below average educational attainment - 16.5% with bachelor's or higher
- Lower median household income at $1,205 weekly
- Higher percentage of low-income households - 25.1%
- Significant proportion of rented properties - 36.2%
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 St Albans?
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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.