IRSAD
Relative Socio-economic Advantage and Disadvantage
Score 991
Measures relative socio-economic advantage and disadvantage.
Within AustraliaDecile 6 of 10
Within VictoriaDecile 5 of 10
For state-level context, explore the Victoria economy.
Housing
Towong
Victoria · Census 2021
Median house price not tracked for this suburb
Towong is a bushland suburb of Towong.
Median house price
No Valuer-General median for Towong.
Victoria's Valuer-General sales data is open, but we have no suburb median for Towong from it. ABS median established-house price, Greater Melbourne: $850k; Rest of Vic.: $625k.
How it compares
Household income / wk28th percentile
<$599ABS Census 2021$3,249+
Percentiles rank this suburb against Victoria suburbs that carry the metric — never across states, and never against suburbs where it is missing. Price references are ABS median established-house transfer prices for the Mar 2026 quarter (CC BY 4.0); the suburb figure is a Valuer-General median over a different window, so read the gap as indicative. Income references are the Census 2021 median of the middle suburb in Victoria and nationally, not a household-weighted median.
People & housing
Population
143
Median age
60 yrs
Income / person / wk
$690
Household income / wk
$1,291
▼ 18% vs VIC
Median rent / wk
$175
Mortgage / month
$1,083
Who lives here
- Couples with children
- 17%
- −16 pts vs VIC
- Living alone
- 25%
- −1 pts vs VIC
- Unemployment
- 6%
- +1 pts vs VIC
- In the labour force
- 55%
- −8 pts vs VIC
- Bachelor degree or higher
- 18%
- −11 pts vs VIC
- Earning $1–$499 a week
- 28%
- +5 pts vs VIC
- Earning $2,000+ a week
- 13%
- level with VIC
Households for the family mix, residents aged 15+ for work, education and income; unemployment is a share of the labour force. VIC figures weight each suburb by its dwellings or residents. ABS Census 2021 (CC BY 4.0). Withheld for very small populations — under 100 residents, or under 50 dwellings, households or workers for the shares that count those.
Housing stock
60 occupied private dwellings
- Separate house 100%
- Flat or apartment 0%
VIC: 73% separate houses · 12% flats & apartments
- Owned outright 68%
- Mortgaged 18%
- Rented 5%
- Other & not stated 8%
VIC: 32% owned outright · 36% mortgaged · 29% rented
ABS Census 2021 (CC BY 4.0). Withheld for very small populations — under 100 residents, or under 50 dwellings, households or workers for the shares that count those.
Socio-economic profile
IRSD
Relative Socio-economic Disadvantage
Score 1,036
Measures relative socio-economic disadvantage only; a higher score means less disadvantage.
Within AustraliaDecile 7 of 10
Within VictoriaDecile 6 of 10
IER
Economic Resources
Score 1,053
Measures access to economic resources, including income, housing costs and assets.
Within AustraliaDecile 7 of 10
Within VictoriaDecile 7 of 10
IEO
Education and Occupation
Score 994
Measures relative education and occupation characteristics.
Within AustraliaDecile 6 of 10
Within VictoriaDecile 5 of 10
Scores are standardised across Australia to a mean of 1,000 and a standard deviation of 100. Deciles run from 1 (most disadvantaged) to 10 (least disadvantaged).
Source: ABS SEIFA 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
Terrain & hazard exposure
Median elevation
298 m
range 234–936 m
Land below 5 m
0%
0% below 2 m
Shares are the proportion of the suburb's land area. Land where Landsat saw water in at least 1% of clear passes since 1987, excluding permanent water and filtered by DEA's confidence layer. Satellites miss flood peaks, so this is a floor, not a risk estimate; dense high-rise cores can still register tower shadow as water. A statutory planning-control boundary, not a flood extent, and it can lag the latest flood study. Designated for development control; a designation, not a prediction of fire behaviour. The Building Regulations' Designated Bushfire Prone Area, the like-for-like of NSW Bush Fire Prone Land; the narrower Bushfire Management Overlay is a separate planning control. Elevation is orthometric height from a 30 m model; no hydrology or drainage is modelled.
Planning & zoning
Zoning mix (share of the suburb's land)
Show on map →- Rural82%
- Conservation15%
- Infrastructure & special purpose1.0%
- Low-density residential0.6%
- Open space & recreation0.6%
0.5% of the suburb sits outside any mapped zone (typically unzoned roads, water or land outside the scheme), so the shares add up to 99%.
In a heritage area
0.2%
conservation area / Heritage Overlay
Show on map →Planning instrument: Towong Planning Scheme. Zones are grouped into ten families so states compare; the council's own scheme is the authority for any one lot. Source: Vicmap Planning zones; Vicmap Heritage Overlay.
Culture & community
- Dominant religion
- No religion · 39%
- Top language at home
- English only
- No religion
- 39%
- Born overseas
- 9%
- English only at home
- 100%
Schools by sector
- Nearest secondary
- 8.9 km
School sector & type: ACARA (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority), School Location dataset.
Local council
- Council (LGA)
- Towong
- Population
- 6,158 (2025) · +0.2% in a year
- Area / density
- 6,675 km² · 1/km²
- Council medians (2021)
- age 52 · $1,282/wk household income · $210/wk rent
- Council-wide house median (2023-24)
- $415k
- Federal grants
- $6.56M in 2025-26 · $1,065/resident
- Avg rates / property
- $1,875
- Operating result
- -3.4%
- Asset renewal
- 154%
- Website
- towong.vic.gov.au
Council boundaries and the suburb split: ABS ASGS LGA 2024, allocated by 2021 mesh block and weighted by Census 2021 residents. Population: ABS Estimated Resident Population 2025. Medians: ABS Census 2021. House median: ABS Data by Region, established-house transfers across the whole council, financial year 2023-24. Federal grants: Financial Assistance Grants, Dept of Infrastructure. Financials: VIC Local Government Performance Reporting 2024-25, Local Government Victoria. ABS, Dept of Infrastructure and Local Government Victoria data CC BY 4.0; council website from Wikidata (CC0).
Representation
- Federal division
- Indi
- Federal MP
- Helen Haines (IND)
- Two-party-preferred
- Coalition 57% 2PP
- State electorate
- Benambra
- State MP
- Bill Tilley (LIB)
Similar suburbs
Closest demographic & amenity profile, nationally.
Sources: ABS ASGS boundaries (CC BY 4.0); ABS Census 2021 (CC BY 4.0); Australian Electoral Commission (CC BY 4.0); Geoscience Australia 1 Second DEM-S (CC BY 4.0); DEA Water Observations Statistics, Geoscience Australia (CC BY 4.0); Vicmap Planning overlays, Department of Transport and Planning Victoria (CC BY 4.0); Designated Bushfire Prone Area, Department of Transport and Planning Victoria (CC BY 4.0); Vicmap Planning — Planning Scheme Zones, Department of Transport and Planning Victoria (CC BY 4.0); Vicmap Planning — Heritage Overlay, Department of Transport and Planning Victoria (CC BY 4.0); Wikipedia state-member tables (CC BY-SA 4.0). Not financial advice.