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box hill south
Victoria · Census 2021
$1.53M
+1.5% yr · median house · Dec 2025
Box Hill South is a leafy residential suburb of Whitehorse.
Median house price
People
Population
8,491
Median age
39 yrs
Income / person / wk
$788
Household income / wk
$1,928
Housing
Median rent / wk
$425
Mortgage / month
$2,400
Culture & community
- Dominant religion
- No religion · 47%
- Top language at home
- Mandarin · 8%
- No religion
- 47%
- Born overseas
- 41%
- English only at home
- 60%
Local amenities
Amenity score
41/100
Schools
2
Supermarkets
2
Pubs & bars
0
Parks
12
Libraries
0
GP clinics
2
Pharmacies
3
Hospitals
0
Nearest supermarket
0.8 km
Nearest train
1.9 km
Nearest hospital
2.4 km
Distance to coast
13.3 km
NBN
Fixed Line
Grocery mix: 1 Aldi. 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).
Schools by sector
Government
1
Catholic
0
Independent
1
Primary
2
Secondary
1
Nearest secondary
0.6 km
School sector & type: ACARA (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority), School Location dataset.
Local council
- Council (LGA)
- Whitehorse
- Council population
- 167,539
- Council area
- 64 km²
- Density
- 2,606/km²
- Federal grants
- $6.28M/yr (2025-26)
- Grants per resident
- $37/yr
- Avg rates / property
- $1,516
- Operating result
- +4.4%
- Asset renewal
- 94%
Council boundary: ABS ASGS LGA 2024. Federal grants: Financial Assistance Grants, Dept of Infrastructure. Financials: VIC Local Government Performance Reporting 2024-25, Local Government Victoria. All CC BY 4.0.
Representation
- Federal division
- Menzies
- Federal MP
- Gabriel Ng (ALP)
- Two-party-preferred
- Labor 51% 2PP
- State electorate
- Box Hill
- State MP
- Paul Hamer (ALP)
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