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Housing
burnside heights
Victoria · Census 2021
$750k
+0.1% yr · median house · Dec 2025
Burnside Heights is a leafy residential suburb of Melton.
Median house price
People
Population
6,377
Median age
33 yrs
Income / person / wk
$803
Household income / wk
$2,246
Housing
Median rent / wk
$411
Mortgage / month
$2,000
Culture & community
- Dominant religion
- Catholic · 29%
- Top language at home
- Vietnamese · 5%
- No religion
- 17%
- Born overseas
- 50%
- English only at home
- 38%
Local amenities
Amenity score
25/100
Schools
1
Supermarkets
0
Pubs & bars
0
Parks
14
Libraries
0
GP clinics
0
Pharmacies
0
Hospitals
0
Nearest supermarket
1.1 km
Nearest train
3.4 km
Nearest hospital
6.1 km
Distance to coast
16.7 km
NBN
Fixed Line
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
0
Primary
1
Secondary
0
Nearest secondary
1.1 km
School sector & type: ACARA (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority), School Location dataset.
Local council
- Council (LGA)
- Melton
- Council population
- 215,896
- Council area
- 528 km²
- Density
- 409/km²
- Federal grants
- $28.38M/yr (2025-26)
- Grants per resident
- $131/yr
- Avg rates / property
- $1,779
- Operating result
- +21.5%
- Asset renewal
- 107%
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
- Gorton
- Federal MP
- Alice Jordan-Baird (ALP)
- Two-party-preferred
- Labor 60% 2PP
- State electorate
- Kororoit
- State MP
- Luba Grigorovitch (ALP)
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