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Housing
smythes creek
Victoria · Census 2021
$560k
+6.7% yr · median house · Dec 2025
Smythes Creek is a bushland suburb of Golden Plains.
Median house price
People
Population
1,762
Median age
38 yrs
Income / person / wk
$817
Household income / wk
$2,132
Housing
Median rent / wk
$395
Mortgage / month
$1,647
Culture & community
- Dominant religion
- No religion · 51%
- Top language at home
- Punjabi · 1%
- No religion
- 51%
- Born overseas
- 9%
- English only at home
- 96%
Local amenities
Amenity score
9/100
Schools
0
Supermarkets
1
Pubs & bars
0
Parks
1
Libraries
0
GP clinics
0
Pharmacies
1
Hospitals
0
Nearest supermarket
3.5 km
Nearest train
8.5 km
Nearest hospital
8.0 km
Distance to coast
76 km
NBN
Fixed Wireless
Grocery mix: 1 Woolworths. 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
6.1 km
School sector & type: ACARA (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority), School Location dataset.
Local council
- Council (LGA)
- Golden Plains
- Council population
- 25,858
- Council area
- 2,703 km²
- Density
- 10/km²
- Federal grants
- $8.19M/yr (2025-26)
- Grants per resident
- $317/yr
- Avg rates / property
- $2,052
- Operating result
- +0.5%
- Asset renewal
- 173%
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
- Ripon
- State MP
- Martha Haylett (ALP)
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