Eaglemont, VIC
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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.
Among Australia's more advantaged suburbs
Eaglemont is more socio-economically advantaged than about 99% of the 14,462 Australian suburbs we score, based on the ABS SEIFA index (raw score 1144, where about 1000 is the national average).
A socio-economic measure from ABS Census data — not a measure of how good a suburb is to live in or visit. How we calculate this.
Is Eaglemont a good place to live?
There’s no single answer — it depends on what matters to you. So instead of one mystery number, we break it down: a transparent score on each part of life we can back with public data, and an honest “not yet” on the parts we can’t.
Strong on the data we score
A weighted blend of the 2 components we can score for Eaglemont from public data. It sits alongside — and reconciles with — the socio-economic Suburb Score above; it is a transparent read, not a complete verdict.
Socio-economic advantage
99/100Among Australia's more advantaged suburbs
Among Australia's more advantaged suburbs — the same ABS SEIFA-based Suburb Score (99/100) shown above. Income, education and occupation, as published by the ABS. · ABS SEIFA 2021
Housing affordability
9/100Among the more expensive suburbs
Median weekly rent was $453 at the 2021 Census — more affordable than about 9% of suburbs we can compare. Housing data only, no valuations. · ABS Census 2021
Not yet scored
We’d rather leave these open than publish a number we can’t stand behind. Here’s where each one stands.
- Amenities & accessNot scored yet — our OpenStreetMap amenity mapping is still rolling out across suburbs.
- Green spaceNot scored yet — our OpenStreetMap green-space mapping is still rolling out across suburbs.
- TransportNot scored yet — our OpenStreetMap public-transport mapping is still rolling out across suburbs.
- SchoolsNot scored yet — school performance (ACARA / ICSEA) needs a data-reuse licence cleared before we can publish it.
- SafetyNot scored yet — Australia has no single open crime dataset and safety data carries defamation and legal care, so it is gated pending a go/no-go and will be data-only when added.
- CommunityNot scored yet — we won't reduce community to a number from a proxy. We'd rather leave it open than publish an invented value judgement.
A transparent read on public data, not a verdict — and not a measure of any person or community. See our methodology for how each component is worked out and why some aren’t scored yet.
Eaglemont at a glance
- Population (2021)
- 3,960
- Median age
- 46
- Median weekly household income
- $2,866
- SEIFA score
- 1144
- Local government area
- Banyule
- Coordinates
- -37.7631, 145.0660
Map of Eaglemont
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Housing & property in Eaglemont
What it costs to live in Eaglemont and how residents hold their homes, from the Australian Bureau of Statistics 2021 Census.
- Median rent
- $453
- per week
- Median mortgage
- $3,073
- per month
- Owner-occupied
- 78%
- of dwellings
- Rented
- 20%
- of dwellings
The full tenure and dwelling-type breakdown is in the Eaglemont demographics section below.
Source: ABS Census of Population and Housing, 2021. © Australian Bureau of Statistics, released under CC BY 4.0. See our methodology.
Eaglemont demographics (2021 Census)
The figures below profile Eaglemont using the Australian Bureau of Statistics 2021 Census; every percentage is a share of a clearly stated Census count, so each one traces back to the source. At a glance, the largest age group is mid-life (45–64) at 29% and 23% of residents were born overseas.
Age profile
| Age group | People | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Children (0–14) | 611 | 15% |
| Youth (15–24) | 532 | 13% |
| Young adults (25–44) | 787 | 20% |
| Mid-life (45–64) | 1,162 | 29% |
| Seniors (65+) | 873 | 22% |
Share of the 3,965 people counted by age.
Housing and households
| Tenure | Dwellings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Owned outright | 694 | 49% |
| Owned with a mortgage | 413 | 29% |
| Rented | 282 | 20% |
| Dwelling type | Dwellings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | 1,113 | 79% |
| Townhouses & semis | 81 | 6% |
| Flats & apartments | 223 | 16% |
Tenure and dwelling shares are of the roughly 1,417 occupied private dwellings in Eaglemont.
- Average household size
- 2.7 people
- Median weekly family income
- $3,473
- Median weekly personal income
- $1,153
Community and culture
- Born overseas
- 869 (23%)
- Speaks a language other than English at home
- 772 (20%)
- Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander
- 12 (0%)
Work and education
- Completed Year 12
- 2,559 (81%)
- Labour-force participation
- 64.9%
- Unemployment rate
- 3.7%
- Employed full-time
- 1,232
- Employed part-time
- 753
Source: ABS Census of Population and Housing, 2021 (General Community Profile, by Suburb and Locality). © Australian Bureau of Statistics, released under CC BY 4.0. How we group bands and derive each share is set out on our methodology page.
Weather and climate in Eaglemont
Based on 2014–2023 records, the warmest month in Eaglemont is January (average daytime high around 27°C) and the coolest is July (around 12.9°C). The area receives roughly 724 mm of rain across the year.
| Month | Avg high | Avg low | Rain |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 27°C | 14.9°C | 62 mm |
| Feb | 25.8°C | 14.1°C | 32 mm |
| Mar | 24°C | 13.3°C | 47 mm |
| Apr | 20°C | 10.5°C | 62 mm |
| May | 16°C | 8.4°C | 63 mm |
| Jun | 13.4°C | 6.5°C | 63 mm |
| Jul | 12.9°C | 6.1°C | 50 mm |
| Aug | 13.7°C | 6.2°C | 59 mm |
| Sep | 16.3°C | 7.3°C | 65 mm |
| Oct | 19.6°C | 8.8°C | 76 mm |
| Nov | 21.6°C | 10.8°C | 79 mm |
| Dec | 24.5°C | 12.6°C | 66 mm |
Climate normals, 2014–2023 (Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis).
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Common questions about Eaglemont
Is Eaglemont a good place to live?
There's no single answer, so we score what the public data can back. On socio-economic advantage and housing affordability, Eaglemont rates 69/100 overall (Strong on the data we score). Public transport, schools and safety aren't scored yet — see our methodology for why.
What is the median rent in Eaglemont?
At the 2021 Census, the median weekly rent in Eaglemont was $453, and the median monthly mortgage repayment was $3,073. These are official ABS Census figures — StreetScout publishes housing data only, with no property valuations or agent referrals.
Where is Eaglemont?
Eaglemont is a suburb of Victoria, Australia, in the Banyule local government area.
What is the population of Eaglemont?
At the 2021 Census, Eaglemont had a population of about 3,960.
Is Eaglemont an advantaged area?
Eaglemont has an ABS SEIFA score of 1144, where about 1000 is the national average — higher scores indicate greater relative socio-economic advantage. That gives it a Suburb Score of 99 out of 100 — more socio-economically advantaged than about 99% of Australian suburbs.
What is the weather like in Eaglemont?
Eaglemont has average daytime highs of about 19.6°C and overnight lows of about 10°C, with roughly 724 mm of rain across the year (based on 2014–2023 climate normals).
Does Eaglemont have high household incomes?
Eaglemont has one of the highest median weekly household incomes in Victoria — the 8th-highest among suburbs with at least 1,000 residents at the 2021 Census ($2,866 per week).
Where Eaglemont ranks
Eaglemont appears in these data-driven guides — each a transparent sort on a single ABS figure shown on this page.
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