Median house price
$1.6M
+9.1% change
VIC · Merri-bek Council
Est. population · Jun 2025
15,274
Growth (1 yr)
+2.6%
Growth (5 yr)
+12.2%
Median age
33
Median income
$2,088/wk
Employment rate
74.5%
Median house price · 4th Quarter 2025
$1,600,000
Languages at home
23.7%non-English
Most common: Italian, Greek, Spanish
2021 Census · usual residence
Desirability score
Suburb profile
Brunswick East is a lively inner established suburb with dining, shopping and leisure options right on the doorstep. A younger crowd gives the area energy, with education options woven into the neighbourhood. The suburb has a clear multicultural mix alongside longer-term local households.
Local schools rate highly against similar suburbs. Outdoor life is easy here, with generous parks and room for kids, dogs and weekend strolls. Everyday errands are walkable, and buses and trams keep the wider city within easy reach.
Property sits in a premium price band and is harder to enter for many buyers. Reported crime has been falling recently.
Desirability rates excellent overall, led by stronger community and employment, plus growth momentum compared with similar metro suburbs.
At a glance
A quick read of housing, growth, livability, and risk
Median house price
$1.6M
+9.1% change
Median rent
$550/wk
Population (ERP)
15,274
+2.6% annual growth
Dwelling vacancy
12.3%
Census unoccupied dwellings
Desirability pillars vs the peer median (50th percentile)
Relative standing using percentiles, ranks, and national deciles
Desirability
#11
among Metro Melbourne · Growth area
Safety
57th
percentile in state (higher = safer)
Pop. growth
92nd
percentile in VIC
Advantage (IRSAD)
10/10
national SEIFA decile
School ICSEA
95th
percentile among schools with ICSEA
Recent ERP change over 1 and 5 years
Dwelling types from the 2021 Census
Quick scan — open a section below for full context
Data sources & freshness
Median weekly rent from Victorian government rent reports. Council median fallback may apply where suburb rent is unavailable.
Contributes to desirability score · Housing (15%) · Future Growth (7%)
Median price, rental yield and vacancy Recent price momentum
Data sources & freshness
Estimated resident population
15,274(June 2025)
+2.6% annual · +12.2% over 5 years · 92th percentile in VIC
ABS Estimated Resident Population allocated to this suburb from SA2-level data. Not an official ABS suburb count.
Figures are allocated from ABS Estimated Resident Population at Statistical Area Level 2 (SA2), using 2021 Census share within overlapping SA2 regions. Where Census data is unavailable, area overlap is used instead.
The dashed chart line is a simple growth-trend estimate to June 2030 (~18,150), extrapolated at +3.5% average annual growth since 2011. It is illustrative only — not an official ABS forecast.
2021 Census
Contributes to desirability score · Community (5%)
Employment, household income and age diversity (2021 Census)
Data sources & freshness
The 2026 Census runs in August 2026; suburb-level updates are expected from mid-2027.
No 2021 Census cultural diversity data for this suburb yet.
Data sources & freshness
The 2026 Census runs in August 2026; suburb-level updates are expected from mid-2027.
Reported offences decreased compared with the previous period.
Contributes to desirability score · Safety (18%)
Crime rate and year-on-year trend
Data sources & freshness
Contributes to desirability score · Education (15%)
School and preschool counts, median school ICSEA
Data sources & freshness
3 childcare services from OpenStreetMap
Contributes to desirability score · Education (15%)
Childcare centre count
Data sources & freshness
57 public transport stops in this suburb
Contributes to desirability score · Accessibility (15%)
Public transport stop coverage
Data sources & freshness
593 nearby amenities within ~1.5 km
42 restaurants · 23 cafes · 7 pubs · 21 bars · 6 supermarkets · 4 pharmacies · 15 fast food · 5 bakeries
10-12 Moreland Road
75 Nicholson Street
471 Lygon Street
3 Village Avenue
90 Albert Street
129 Lygon Street
135 Lygon Street
80 Lygon Street
285 Lygon Street
159 Lygon Street
124 Weston Street
313 Lygon Street
140 Lygon Street
86 Lygon Street
98-100 Lygon Street
295 Lygon Street
76 Lygon Street
134 Lygon Street
202 Lygon Street
66 Lygon Street
221D Blyth Street
169 Lygon Street
325 Lygon Street
153 Weston Street
449 Lygon Street
131 Nicholson Street
446 Lygon Street
Unit 1 6-20 Lygon Street
11 Nicholson Street
36 Lygon Street
Unit 1 455 Lygon Street
Canning Way
312-314 Lygon Street, Brunswick East
14 Barkly Street
Unit 2 815 Nicholson Street
351 Lygon Street
117 Lygon Street, Brunswick East
349 Lygon Street
299 Lygon Street
Unit 8 50 Albert Street
438-440 Lygon Street
510 Lygon Street
163 Lygon Street
105 Lygon Street
122 Nicholson Street
9 Nicholson Street
128 Nicholson Street
360 Lygon Street
465 Lygon Street
112 Lygon Street
1 Piera Street
189 Nicholson Street
43 Nicholson Street
136 Lygon Street
2 Bluestone Way
310 Lygon Street
1 Nicholson Street
61 Lygon Street
137-141 Nicholson Street
280 Lygon Street
28 Gale Street
122 Weston Street
225 Nicholson Street, Brunswick East
101 Lygon Street
130 Barkly Street
41 Lygon Street
99 Lygon Street
44A Lygon Street
132 Lygon Street
43-49 Lygon Street
181 Weston Street, Brunswick East
315 Lygon Street, Brunswick East
319 Lygon Street
46 Lygon Street, Brunswick East
Unit 2 7 Bluestone Way
161 Lygon Street
402 Lygon Street
60 Lygon Street
331 Lygon Street
Unit 2 71-73 Lygon Street
46 Holmes Street
128 Lygon Street
56 Lygon Street
152 Lygon Street
Unit Shop 1 22-30 Lygon Street
222 Lygon Street
175-177 Lygon Street
48 Lygon Street, Brunswick East
58 Lygon Street
46 Lygon Street
55-57 Lygon Street
124-126 Lygon Street
2 Village Avenue, Brunswick East
63-67 Lygon Street
180 Lygon Street
434 Lygon Street
109 Lygon Street
81 Lygon Street
100A Lygon Street
338 Lygon Street
347 Lygon Street
74 Lygon Street, Brunswick East
116 Lygon Street, Brunswick East
90 Lygon Street
6 Village Avenue
115 Nicholson Street, Brunswick East
7 Nicholson Street
104A Lygon Street
500 Lygon Street
444 Lygon Street
10A Village Avenue
127-137 Nicholson Street, Brunswick East
Unit Shop 1 474 Lygon Street
326-328 Lygon Street
467 Lygon Street
25-27 Nicholson Street, Brunswick East
279 Lygon Street
495 Lygon Street
148-150 Nicholson Street
2 Noel Street, Brunswick East
11-15 Brunswick Road
148 Nicholson Street
1 John Street
195A Stewart Street
56 Brunswick Road
26 Miller Street
260 Lygon Street, Brunswick East
6 Bluestone Way, Brunswick East
39 Nicholson Street
137 Lygon Street
155 Weston Street, Brunswick East
212-214 Blyth Street
Unit 9 14 Village Avenue
158 Lygon Street
92 Lygon Street
473-475 Lygon Street
210 Lygon Street, Brunswick East
130C Nicholson Street
343a Lygon Street
354 Lygon Street
132 Victoria Street
120 Weston Street
74A Lygon Street
3 Kirkdale Street
13 Nicholson Street
360 Lygon Street
Unit 2 457-459 Lygon Street
167-171 Nicholson Street
8 Lygon Street
6 Rickard Street, Brunswick East
15 Albert Street
5 Bluestone Way, Brunswick East
21 bus stops · 14 tram stops
131 Lygon Street
4 Village Avenue
513 Lygon Street
Unit 1 115 Lygon Street
151 Barkly Street
Unit 1 304-310 Lygon Street
Unit Shop 1 394 Lygon Street
212 Lygon Street
138 Lygon Street
Unit 7A 50 Albert Street
Unit 12 90 Nicholson Street
113 Lygon Street
Unit Shop 1 162 Lygon Street
815 Nicholson Street
119 Lygon Street
16 Victoria Street
398 Lygon Street
Unit 1 815 Nicholson Street
8 Village Avenue
Unit 51 195 Lygon Street
119-121 Nicholson Street
9 Kirkdale Street
183-187 Nicholson Street
372 Lygon Street
228 Lygon Street
145 Lygon Street
351 Lygon Street
106 Lygon Street
214 Lygon Street
15-17 Kirkdale Street
215 Nicholson Street
445 Lygon Street
302 Lygon Street
108 Lygon Street
305-307 Lygon Street
146-148 Lygon Street
68 Lygon Street
Unit 3 8 Lygon Street
238 Lygon Street, Brunswick East
Unit 2 162 Lygon Street
516 Lygon Street
331 Lygon Street
134 Victoria Street
Unit Shop 4 240-250 Lygon Street
336 Lygon Street
447 Lygon Street
496 Lygon Street
102 Lygon Street
129 Nicholson Street
463 Lygon Street
Unit 1 32-34 Lygon Street
245;245-247A Lygon Street
Unit 1 1 Brunswick Road
19 Nicholson Street
352 Lygon Street
133A Lygon Street
146 Weston Street
79 Lygon Street
114 Nicholson Street
Kirkdale Street
193-195 Nicholson Street
343D Lygon Street
151A Lygon Street
72A Nicholson Street
414 Lygon Street
406 Lygon Street
221B Blyth Street
296 Lygon Street
442 Lygon Street
188 Lygon Street
4A Village Avenue
107 Lygon Street
142 Lygon Street
53 Lygon Street
218 Lygon Street
518 Lygon Street
5 Village Avenue
62-64 Lygon Street
297 Lygon Street
136 Weston Street
345 Lygon Street
Unit 7 50 Albert Street
96 Lygon Street
5 Nicholson Street
365A Lygon Street
371 Lygon Street
186 Lygon Street
18 Village Avenue
368 Lygon Street
50 Albert Street
11-13 Lygon Street
283 Lygon Street
458 Lygon Street
321 Lygon Street
139 Lygon Street
110 Lygon Street
504 Lygon Street
168 Lygon Street
Unit 16-22 Cross Street, Brunswick East
221C Blyth Street
110 Albert Street, Brunswick East
Unit Shop 2 93-97 Lygon Street
126C Nicholson Street
2 Rickard Street, Brunswick East
Unit 1 3-7 Albion Street, Brunswick East
17 Nicholson Street
365 Lygon Street
167 Lygon Street, Brunswick East
365 Lygon Street
142-144 Weston Street
221A Blyth Street
240 Lygon Street
45 Nicholson Street
Unit 4 50 Albert Street
40 Clarence Street
130 Lygon Street, Brunswick East
26 Albert Street
47 Nicholson Street, Brunswick East
221 Nicholson Street, Brunswick East
144 Lygon Street
291 Lygon Street
Unit Basement 1 127 Nicholson Street
289 Lygon Street
123 Lygon Street
2 Kirkdale Street
370 Lygon Street
341 Lygon Street
132 Weston Street
249 Lygon Street
104 Albert Street
522 Lygon Street
Names and addresses from OpenStreetMap. Unnamed venues show as their type (e.g. Cafe). Transport stops are summarised by type rather than listed individually.
Contributes to desirability score · Lifestyle (15%)
Food, shopping, recreation and sport (OpenStreetMap)
Data sources & freshness
15 parks and public open space in this suburb
Data sources & freshness
OpenStreetMap parks and natural woodland features mapped within the suburb boundary.
Contributes to desirability score · Environment (10%)
Parks and green cover (OpenStreetMap)
Data sources & freshness
3 places of worship within ~1.5 km
Unit 1 3-7 Albion Street, Brunswick East
From OpenStreetMap within ~1.5 km of the suburb centre.
Data sources & freshness
Contributes to desirability score · Accessibility (15%)
Hospitals and GP clinics
Data sources & freshness
Active NDIS participants allocated from NDIA Statistical Area Level 2 (SA2, ASGS 2016) counts to this suburb boundary. Not an official suburb-level NDIS figure · as at 31 March 2026.
For NDIS spend and service-demand exploration by SA2 or postcode, see the Care Sector Demand Map.
Data sources & freshness
Typical conditions by season for suburbs in the same ~44 km climate area. Rainfall totals are summed from monthly WorldClim layers; rainy-day counts are approximate.
Contributes to desirability score · Lifestyle (15%)
Temperature and humidity comfort
Data sources & freshness
Development applications from PPARS statewide register (lodged 2020–2022). Free public PPARS MapServer — applications through ~2022 (service last updated Feb 2024).
178 planning-related records
September 2021
August 2021
July 2021
June 2021
Contributes to desirability score · Future Growth (7%)
Development and planning activity
Data sources & freshness
6 active roadworks / incidents
Data sources & freshness
1 heritage place
Data sources & freshness
Bushfire overlay checked at suburb centroid via Victorian Bushfire Management Overlay mapping.
Contributes to desirability score · Safety (18%)
Bushfire hazard overlays
Data sources & freshness
Two-party preferred (2025)
Estimated suburb voting profile
Estimated from 8 nearby ordinary polling places (up to 1.6 km away).
10.2 percentage points more Labor-leaning than the electorate
Estimated swing since 2022: +3.6 pp toward Labor
Nearest polling places
Federal electorate from AEC federal division boundaries (2025 redistribution). Division-level results are official AEC figures from the latest general election, with by-election updates where applicable. The estimated suburb profile blends up to eight nearest ordinary polling booths in the same electorate using inverse-distance weighting from the suburb centroid — an approximation, not official AEC data. Nearest polling places are shown for reference.
Data sources & freshness
ABS Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA), 2021 release — the latest available, derived from the 2021 Census. Deciles rank suburbs nationally from 1 (lowest) to 10 (highest).
IRSAD — Index of Relative Socio-economic Advantage and Disadvantage. Combines indicators of advantage (e.g. high income, skilled occupations) and disadvantage. Higher decile = more advantaged relative to other Australian areas.
IRSD — Index of Relative Socio-economic Disadvantage. Focuses on disadvantage only (e.g. low income, unemployment, limited education). Higher decile = less disadvantage nationally.
A new SEIFA edition typically follows each census; the ABS has not announced a release date beyond 2021.
Contributes to desirability score · Community (5%)
Socio-economic advantage (IRSAD decile)
Data sources & freshness
Other suburbs in the same local government area.
Similar population and socio-economic profile in other parts of Victoria.