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mount helen
Victoria · Census 2021
$640k
flat yr · median house · Dec 2025
Mount Helen is a bushland suburb of Ballarat.
Median house price
People
Population
3,011
Median age
36 yrs
Income / person / wk
$808
Household income / wk
$2,076
Housing
Median rent / wk
$345
Mortgage / month
$1,600
Culture & community
- Dominant religion
- No religion · 53%
- Top language at home
- Mandarin · 0%
- No religion
- 53%
- Born overseas
- 12%
- English only at home
- 94%
Local amenities
Amenity score
20/100
Schools
1
Supermarkets
0
Pubs & bars
0
Parks
7
Libraries
1
GP clinics
0
Pharmacies
0
Hospitals
0
Nearest supermarket
2.4 km
Nearest train
8.1 km
Nearest hospital
8.2 km
Distance to coast
67 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
1
Independent
1
Primary
2
Secondary
0
Nearest secondary
2.3 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
- Eureka
- State MP
- Michaela Settle (ALP)
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