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mount cottrell
Victoria · Census 2021
$757k
+17.8% yr · median house · Dec 2025
Mount Cottrell is a leafy residential suburb of Melton.
Median house price
People
Population
496
Median age
41 yrs
Income / person / wk
$498
Household income / wk
$1,542
Housing
Median rent / wk
$462
Mortgage / month
$1,973
Culture & community
- Dominant religion
- Catholic · 33%
- Top language at home
- Arabic · 7%
- No religion
- 23%
- Born overseas
- 32%
- English only at home
- 59%
Local amenities
Amenity score
8/100
Schools
0
Supermarkets
0
Pubs & bars
0
Parks
5
Libraries
0
GP clinics
0
Pharmacies
0
Hospitals
0
Nearest supermarket
5.7 km
Nearest train
5.5 km
Nearest hospital
12.7 km
Distance to coast
18.9 km
NBN
Fixed Wireless
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
0
Catholic
0
Independent
0
Primary
0
Secondary
0
Nearest secondary
6.7 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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