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Housing
lake gardens
Victoria · Census 2021
$701k
-5.9% yr · median house · Dec 2025
Lake Gardens is a bushland suburb of Ballarat.
Median house price
People
Population
1,801
Median age
51 yrs
Income / person / wk
$763
Household income / wk
$1,534
Housing
Median rent / wk
$360
Mortgage / month
$1,733
Culture & community
- Dominant religion
- No religion · 37%
- Top language at home
- Mandarin · 2%
- No religion
- 37%
- Born overseas
- 19%
- English only at home
- 87%
Local amenities
Amenity score
20/100
Schools
2
Supermarkets
0
Pubs & bars
0
Parks
9
Libraries
0
GP clinics
0
Pharmacies
0
Hospitals
0
Nearest supermarket
1.0 km
Nearest train
0.8 km
Nearest hospital
2.9 km
Distance to coast
78 km
NBN
Satellite
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
2
Catholic
0
Independent
0
Primary
1
Secondary
2
Nearest secondary
0.7 km
School sector & type: ACARA (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority), School Location dataset.
Local council
- Council (LGA)
- Ballarat
- Council population
- 113,534
- Council area
- 739 km²
- Density
- 154/km²
- Federal grants
- $19.07M/yr (2025-26)
- Grants per resident
- $168/yr
- Avg rates / property
- $2,086
- Operating result
- -2.8%
- Asset renewal
- 120%
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
- Ballarat
- Federal MP
- Catherine King (ALP)
- Two-party-preferred
- Labor 61% 2PP
- State electorate
- Wendouree
- State MP
- Juliana Addison (ALP)
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