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Highest-income suburbs in Victoria

The suburbs in Victoria with the highest median weekly household income at the 2021 Census, limited to those with at least 1,000 residents so the median reflects a meaningful sample. This is a factual ranking on a single ABS figure — not a measure of housing affordability, cost of living, or how good a place is to live or visit.

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    Plenty (Vic.), VIC

    Population 2,575 · Median income $3,190/wk · SEIFA 1118

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    Park Orchards, VIC

    Population 3,835 · Median income $3,155/wk · SEIFA 1130

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    Waterways, VIC

    Population 2,422 · Median income $3,013/wk · SEIFA 1123

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    Ivanhoe East, VIC

    Population 3,762 · Median income $2,977/wk · SEIFA 1150

    Ivanhoe East is a leafy residential suburb about ten kilometres north-east of central Melbourne, within the City of Banyule. Its early identity was shaped by Charterisville, a sandstone house built around 1840 for David Charteris McArthur, Melbourne's first bank manager; in later years it was leased to the painter Walter Withers and became an important gathering place for artists of the Heidelberg School. The grand Renaissance Revival mansion Ravenswood followed in 1891. Today the modest shopping strip along Lower Heidelberg Road forms the suburb's heart, with its own church, bakery and village stores. Generous tree-lined blocks, hilly outlooks and the nearby Yarra River give the area its green, settled character, and homes here are famously tightly held, often passing through the same hands for many years.

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    Cremorne (Vic.), VIC

    Population 2,158 · Median income $2,959/wk · SEIFA 1175

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    Kangaroo Ground, VIC

    Population 1,208 · Median income $2,909/wk · SEIFA 1130

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    Canterbury (Vic.), VIC

    Population 7,800 · Median income $2,877/wk · SEIFA 1146

    Canterbury is a leafy, exclusive suburb in Melbourne's inner east, about ten kilometres from the city centre in the City of Boroondara. Known for its broad, tree-lined boulevards and grand period homes, it ranks among the city's most expensive addresses. The suburb owes its existence to the railway: before the line to the city opened in 1882 the area was largely semi-rural, settled only by the well-to-do. Its most celebrated quarter is the so-called Golden Mile around Mont Albert Road and Monomeath Avenue, where century-old oaks shade ornate mansions. The heart of the shops lies near the railway station and along the historic Maling Road, a charming strip of Edwardian shopfronts now filled with cafes and boutiques. Some of Victoria's oldest private schools, among them Camberwell Grammar, are found within its bounds.

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    Research, VIC

    Population 2,695 · Median income $2,876/wk · SEIFA 1107

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    Eaglemont, VIC

    Population 3,960 · Median income $2,866/wk · SEIFA 1144

    Eaglemont is a leafy, prestigious residential suburb about ten kilometres north-east of central Melbourne, in the City of Banyule between Ivanhoe East and Heidelberg. It takes its name from Mount Eagle, a Crown grant of 1838, and is celebrated for its place in Australian art and town planning. In the late eighteen-eighties the painters of the Heidelberg School, among them Arthur Streeton, Tom Roberts and Charles Conder, camped on the Mount Eagle hillside; Streeton painted his luminous Golden Summer, Eaglemont here in 1889. A generation later, in 1915 and 1916, the architects Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin laid out the Mount Eagle and Glenard estates as garden suburbs, with curving streets, native gardens and shared parkland. Their elegant plan survives largely intact, protected by heritage controls, and gives the suburb its distinctive leafy character.

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    Warranwood, VIC

    Population 4,820 · Median income $2,852/wk · SEIFA 1097

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    Batesford, VIC

    Population 1,141 · Median income $2,837/wk · SEIFA 1092

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    Middle Park (Vic.), VIC

    Population 4,000 · Median income $2,836/wk · SEIFA 1147

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    Harkaway, VIC

    Population 1,011 · Median income $2,805/wk · SEIFA 1093

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    Wonga Park, VIC

    Population 3,843 · Median income $2,790/wk · SEIFA 1103

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    Langwarrin South, VIC

    Population 1,346 · Median income $2,773/wk · SEIFA 1075

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    Eltham North, VIC

    Population 6,830 · Median income $2,770/wk · SEIFA 1111

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    North Warrandyte, VIC

    Population 3,027 · Median income $2,766/wk · SEIFA 1119

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    Clifton Hill, VIC

    Population 6,606 · Median income $2,755/wk · SEIFA 1147

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    Beaconsfield Upper, VIC

    Population 2,997 · Median income $2,755/wk · SEIFA 1086

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    Lysterfield, VIC

    Population 6,681 · Median income $2,754/wk · SEIFA 1088

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    Ashburton, VIC

    Population 7,952 · Median income $2,743/wk · SEIFA 1126

    Ashburton is a leafy, established suburb in Melbourne's south-east, within the City of Boroondara and around twelve kilometres from the central business district. The area took its name from a railway station: a stop on the Outer Circle line, originally called Norwood, was renamed in the early eighteen-nineties at the suggestion of a former councillor who had lived in Ashburton Terrace in Cork, Ireland. In its early years the locality was best known for the Ashburton Forest overlooking Gardiners Creek, a popular spot for picnics reached by a dedicated steam train nicknamed the Ashy Dasher. Suburban subdivisions spread north of High Street from the late nineteen-twenties. Today the Ashburton Village shopping strip, community centre and library line High Street, while the Gardiners Creek Trail threads through the suburb's south, linking walkers and cyclists towards Kew.

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    Warrandyte, VIC

    Population 5,541 · Median income $2,742/wk · SEIFA 1110

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    Sandhurst, VIC

    Population 5,211 · Median income $2,714/wk · SEIFA 1105

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    Cardigan, VIC

    Population 1,064 · Median income $2,713/wk · SEIFA 1055

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    Brighton (Vic.), VIC

    Population 23,252 · Median income $2,710/wk · SEIFA 1145

    Brighton is an affluent bayside suburb of Melbourne, about 11 km south-east of the city centre in the City of Bayside. It is best known for the row of 82 brightly painted bathing boxes that line Dendy Street Beach — one of the city's most photographed sights — and for its swimming beaches, the Middle Brighton Pier and the enclosed Middle Brighton Baths. The Church Street precinct offers upmarket shopping, and the Royal Brighton Yacht Club sits on the foreshore. Large period homes and leafy garden streets give the suburb its character. Brighton takes its name from the seaside resort of Brighton in England.

Rankings are editorial, based on the public data shown on each suburb page. See our methodology.