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Truganina
Victoria · Census 2021
Located 22 km west of Melbourne, Truganina in the City of Melton features rapid residential development, high Punjabi linguistic diversity, and expansive neighborhood parkland.
Median house price
Rolling median of settled transfers, state Valuer-General open data (CC BY 4.0). Victoria average of suburb medians: $941k.
How it compares
Percentiles rank this suburb against Victoria suburbs that carry the metric — never across states, and never against suburbs where it is missing. The state and national figures are the average of the latest suburb medians in that area, not a transaction-weighted median.
People & housing
Local amenities
Grocery mix: 1 Coles · 1 Aldi. 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).
Culture & community
- Dominant religion
- Hinduism · 20%
- Top language at home
- Punjabi · 8%
- No religion
- 12%
- Born overseas
- 62%
- English only at home
- 26%
Schools by sector
- Government / Catholic / Indep.
- 7 / 2 / 2
- Primary / Secondary
- 9 / 6
- Nearest secondary
- 2.0 km
School sector & type: ACARA (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority), School Location dataset.
Local council
- Council (LGA)
- Melton
- Population / area
- 215,896 · 528 km²
- Density
- 409/km²
- Federal grants
- $28.38M/yr · $131/resident
- 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)
Comparable suburbs
Closest by median house price across VIC.
Similar suburbs
Closest demographic & amenity profile, nationally.
Sources: ABS ASGS boundaries (CC BY 4.0); ABS Census 2021 (CC BY 4.0); Victoria Valuer-General settled transfers (CC BY 4.0); ACARA School Locations (CC BY 4.0); © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); Australian Electoral Commission (CC BY 4.0); Wikipedia state-member tables (CC BY-SA 4.0). Not financial advice.