craigieburn
Victoria · Census 2021
$715k
+8.3% yr · median house · Dec 2025
Located 25 km north of Melbourne in the City of Hume, Craigieburn features vast parklands like Mount Ridley Reserve and a thriving Punjabi-speaking community.
Median house price
People
Housing
Culture & community
- Dominant religion
- Catholic · 26%
- Top language at home
- Punjabi · 6%
- No religion
- 15%
- Born overseas
- 51%
- English only at home
- 37%
Local amenities
Grocery mix: 2 Coles · 3 Woolworths · 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
School sector & type: ACARA (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority), School Location dataset.
Local council
- Council (LGA)
- Hume
- Council population
- 243,266
- Council area
- 504 km²
- Density
- 483/km²
- Federal grants
- $23.98M/yr (2025-26)
- Grants per resident
- $99/yr
- Avg rates / property
- $1,715
- Operating result
- +2.3%
- Asset renewal
- 73%
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
- Calwell
- Federal MP
- Basem Abdo (ALP)
- Two-party-preferred
- Labor 65% 2PP
- State electorate
- Kalkallo
- State MP
- Ros Spence (ALP)
Similar suburbs
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