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Bandiana
Victoria · Census 2021
Bandiana is a bushland suburb of Wodonga.
Median house price
Rolling median of settled transfers, state Valuer-General open data (CC BY 4.0). Median of Victoria suburb medians: $765k.
How it compares
Percentiles rank this suburb against Victoria suburbs that carry the metric — never across states, and never against suburbs where it is missing. Price references are ABS median established-house transfer prices for the Mar 2026 quarter (CC BY 4.0); the suburb figure is a Valuer-General median over a different window, so read the gap as indicative. Income references are the Census 2021 median of the middle suburb in Victoria and nationally, not a household-weighted median.
People & housing
Who lives here
- Couples with children
- 46%
- +14 pts vs VIC
- Living alone
- 12%
- −14 pts vs VIC
- Unemployment
- 2%
- −3 pts vs VIC
- In the labour force
- 81%
- +18 pts vs VIC
- Bachelor degree or higher
- 13%
- −16 pts vs VIC
- Earning $1–$499 a week
- 11%
- −12 pts vs VIC
- Earning $2,000+ a week
- 7%
- −6 pts vs VIC
Households for the family mix, residents aged 15+ for work, education and income; unemployment is a share of the labour force. VIC figures weight each suburb by its dwellings or residents. ABS Census 2021 (CC BY 4.0). Withheld for very small populations — under 100 residents, or under 50 dwellings, households or workers for the shares that count those.
Housing stock
181 occupied private dwellings
- Separate house 100%
- Flat or apartment 0%
VIC: 73% separate houses · 12% flats & apartments
- Owned outright 14%
- Mortgaged 33%
- Rented 47%
- Other & not stated 7%
VIC: 32% owned outright · 36% mortgaged · 29% rented
ABS Census 2021 (CC BY 4.0). Withheld for very small populations — under 100 residents, or under 50 dwellings, households or workers for the shares that count those.
Terrain & hazard exposure
Shares are the proportion of the suburb's land area. Land where Landsat saw water in at least 1% of clear passes since 1987, excluding permanent water and filtered by DEA's confidence layer. Satellites miss flood peaks, so this is a floor, not a risk estimate; dense high-rise cores can still register tower shadow as water. A statutory planning-control boundary, not a flood extent, and it can lag the latest flood study. Designated for development control; a designation, not a prediction of fire behaviour. The Building Regulations' Designated Bushfire Prone Area, the like-for-like of NSW Bush Fire Prone Land; the narrower Bushfire Management Overlay is a separate planning control. Elevation is orthometric height from a 30 m model; no hydrology or drainage is modelled.
Planning & zoning
- Growth area, deferred or unzoned33%
- Conservation27%
- Open space & recreation16%
- General / medium / high-density residential15%
- Industrial & employment3.8%
- Infrastructure & special purpose3.1%
- Rural2.6%
- Centres & mixed use<0.1%
Planning instrument: Wodonga Planning Scheme. Zones are grouped into ten families so states compare; the council's own scheme is the authority for any one lot. Source: Vicmap Planning zones; Vicmap Heritage Overlay.
Local amenities
Amenity counts via © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) & Geoscience Australia HealthDirect (CC BY 4.0). Distance to coast derived from ABS state boundaries (CC BY 4.0).
Culture & community
- Dominant religion
- No religion · 56%
- Top language at home
- Urdu · 1%
- No religion
- 56%
- Born overseas
- 8%
- English only at home
- 96%
Schools by sector
- Government / Catholic / Indep.
- 1 / 0 / 0
- Primary / Secondary
- 1 / 0
- Nearest secondary
- 3.5 km
School sector & type: ACARA (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority), School Location dataset.
Local council
- Council (LGA)
- Wodonga
- Population
- 44,717 (2025) · +1.2% in a year
- Area / density
- 433 km² · 103/km²
- Council medians (2021)
- age 38 · $1,498/wk household income · $290/wk rent
- Council-wide house median (2023-24)
- $565k
- Federal grants
- $7.68M in 2025-26 · $172/resident
- Avg rates / property
- $2,188
- Operating result
- +8.0%
- Asset renewal
- 87%
- Website
- wodonga.vic.gov.au
Council boundaries and the suburb split: ABS ASGS LGA 2024, allocated by 2021 mesh block and weighted by Census 2021 residents. Population: ABS Estimated Resident Population 2025. Medians: ABS Census 2021. House median: ABS Data by Region, established-house transfers across the whole council, financial year 2023-24. Federal grants: Financial Assistance Grants, Dept of Infrastructure. Financials: VIC Local Government Performance Reporting 2024-25, Local Government Victoria. ABS, Dept of Infrastructure and Local Government Victoria data CC BY 4.0; council website from Wikidata (CC0).
Representation
- Federal division
- Indi
- Federal MP
- Helen Haines (IND)
- Two-party-preferred
- Coalition 57% 2PP
- State electorate
- Benambra
- State MP
- Bill Tilley (LIB)
Comparable suburbs
Closest by median house price across VIC.
Similar suburbs
Closest demographic & amenity profile, nationally.
Sources: ABS ASGS boundaries (CC BY 4.0); ABS Census 2021 (CC BY 4.0); Victoria Valuer-General settled transfers (CC BY 4.0); ACARA School Locations (CC BY 4.0); © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); Australian Electoral Commission (CC BY 4.0); Geoscience Australia 1 Second DEM-S (CC BY 4.0); DEA Water Observations Statistics, Geoscience Australia (CC BY 4.0); Vicmap Planning overlays, Department of Transport and Planning Victoria (CC BY 4.0); Designated Bushfire Prone Area, Department of Transport and Planning Victoria (CC BY 4.0); Vicmap Planning — Planning Scheme Zones, Department of Transport and Planning Victoria (CC BY 4.0); Vicmap Planning — Heritage Overlay, Department of Transport and Planning Victoria (CC BY 4.0); Wikipedia state-member tables (CC BY-SA 4.0). Not financial advice.