VIC · Brimbank Council

Calder Park, 3037

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Median rent
$480/wk
  • Rural living
What Calder Park is known for: Rural living

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Suburb profile

Calder Park is a rural locality in Victoria, in Brimbank Council. The Taylors Lakes is part of the surrounding geography.

Local amenities is an exceptional strength, with local amenities 100% above the peer median. Local school ICSEA scores sit well above the peer median, well above typical levels for rural localities. Reported crime is lower than in most comparable places, with reported crime 66% below the peer median, and recorded road-crash rates are lower than in comparable places, with recorded road crashes 89% below the peer median. The main trade-offs are higher rents and weaker employment.

Calder Park is a better fit for people who value lower crime and school quality more than lower rents.

Generated from the official metrics on this page. It can omit nuance or contain errors — check the tables and source notes before relying on it.

Strengths and weaknesses

Rural locality · compared with rural localities in Victoria (1828)

Strengths

  • Reported crime is lower than in most comparable places
  • Local school ICSEA scores sit well above the peer median
  • Recorded road-crash rates are lower than in comparable places
  • Local amenity access is stronger than in most comparable places

Weaknesses

  • Rents are among the highest in the peer group
  • Employment is a relative weakness

What stands out

  • Taylors Lakes

Who it suits

  • StudentsInsufficient data

Housing, growth and risk

How Calder Park compares

A quick read of housing, growth, livability, and risk

Median house price

—

No data available

Median rent

$480/wk

Population (ERP)

—

No data available

Dwelling vacancy

—

No data available

How it compares

Relative standing using percentiles, ranks, and national deciles

Crime rate

11th

percentile in state (higher = more crime)

School ICSEA

64th

percentile among schools with ICSEA

Risks & flags

Quick scan — open a section below for full context

Living here

Housing

All types (Sep 2025 (council median))
$480

Median weekly rent from Victorian government rent reports. Council median fallback may apply where suburb rent is unavailable.

Contributes to desirability score · Housing (10%) · Future Growth (6%)

Household crowding and healthy vacancy — not cheapness Modest price change as a healthy-growth band

Data sources & freshness

Population

2021 Census figures

2021 Census

Population
0
Median age
0
Median household income / week
$0
Unoccupied private dwellings
0 of 0
Median monthly mortgage
$0
Employment rate
0%
Dwelling mix (houses / semi / flats)
0 / 0 / 0

Contributes to desirability score · Community (12%) · Accessibility (12%) · Future Growth (6%)

Employment, household income and owned-outright tenure (2021 Census) Work-from-home and public-transport commute shares (2021 Census) Five-year population change as a healthy-growth band, not a boom bonus

Data sources & freshness

  • 2021 Census — General Community Profile (including method of travel to work and educational attainment) — Australian Bureau of Statistics · Updated

    The 2026 Census was conducted in August 2026; suburb-level updates are expected from mid-2027.

  • Estimated Resident Population — Australian Bureau of Statistics · 2025 · Updated · SA2 ERP allocated to suburb boundaries

Tax & income

Median taxable income (2023–24)
$58,531

69th percentile in VIC · 0% vs Australia

Median salary / wages (2023–24)
$64,562

70th percentile in VIC · -1% vs Australia

Residents with rental investments
16.0%

77th percentile in VIC · +16% vs Australia

Median super balance (2023–24)
$59,320

22nd percentile in VIC · -6% vs Australia

Residents with business income
10.0%

29th percentile in VIC · -4% vs Australia

Australian Taxation Office Taxation Statistics 2023–24, individuals Table 25. Figures describe taxpayers who live in postcode 3037 — not a suburb-level official statistic. Rental investment is the share of local taxpayers reporting rental income or loss, not the share of local properties owned by investors.

Counts, net rent & state comparison
Taxpayers in this postcode
30,416
Taxpayers reporting net rent
4,897
Median net rent
-$5,523
Taxpayers reporting business income
2,892
Taxable income vs state median
+10%
Salary / wages vs state median
+11%
Rental investment vs state median
+23%
Super vs state median
-26%
Business income vs state median
-9%

Percentiles rank this postcode among unique postcodes in VIC, so suburbs that share a postcode are not counted twice. Dollar figures are compared with Australia-wide ATO medians from the same release. Median net rent is among taxpayers who reported the rent label and can be negative.

Data sources & freshness

  • Taxation Statistics 2023–24 — individuals by postcode (Table 25) — Australian Taxation Office · Updated · Annual release; taxpayer residential postcode, not suburb boundary

Community & culture

No 2021 Census cultural diversity data for this suburb yet.

Data sources & freshness

  • 2021 Census — General Community Profile (including method of travel to work and educational attainment) — Australian Bureau of Statistics · Updated

    The 2026 Census was conducted in August 2026; suburb-level updates are expected from mid-2027.

Crime & safety

Reported offences increased compared with the previous period.

Offence counts & rates
Total offences (2026)
39
Against the person
5
Against property
32
Rate per 1,000 residents
16
State crime-rate percentile
10.8th (higher = more crime)
Increase (daily rate)
+11.4%
Recorded road crashes (in suburb)
12
Crash rate per 1,000 residents (state rank)
4.92

Most common offence types

  • A231 Fv Common Assault3
  • A232 Non-Fv Common Assault2
  • B21 Criminal Damage2
  • B49 Other Theft21
  • B53 Obtain Benefit By Deception5

Contributes to desirability score · Safety (22%)

Crime rate, offences against the person, year-on-year trend and recorded road crash rates

Data sources & freshness

Family & Lifestyle

Schools & preschools

Schools within 2 km
1
Median school ICSEA
1,039
Median ICSEA percentile
64th
Primary catchments overlapping suburb
2
Secondary catchments overlapping suburb
1
School list
  • Cana Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary · Catholic · ICSEA 1039 · 64th percentile · LBOTE 24% · 508 students · Top SEA quarter 13% · 1.8 km awayView on My School →
School catchments
  • Copperfield CollegeGovernment school catchment overlapping this suburb boundarysecondary_catchment
  • Hillside Primary SchoolGovernment school catchment overlapping this suburb boundaryprimary_catchment
  • Sydenham Primary SchoolGovernment school catchment overlapping this suburb boundaryprimary_catchment

Government school intake zones that overlap this suburb boundary. Living in a catchment does not guarantee enrolment; check the education authority.

Contributes to desirability score · Education (14%)

Median school ICSEA first, then school and catchment counts

Data sources & freshness

Amenities

4 mapped amenities

1 sports centres

Local character & venue list

Local character

  • Limited walkable amenities nearby
Walkability proxy
0/100
Sport & outdoors(1)
  • Calder Park RacewaySports centre

    377 Calder Freeway, Calder Park

Other(2)
  • Bleachers (2)
  • Parking

Names and addresses from OpenStreetMap. Unnamed venues show as their type (e.g. Cafe). Transport stops are summarised by type rather than listed individually. Campgrounds, beaches, wineries and local trails are included when they sit inside the suburb boundary.

Contributes to desirability score · Lifestyle (12%)

Food, shopping, recreation and sport per 1,000 residents (OpenStreetMap)

Data sources & freshness

  • Local amenity insights — Suburb Guide (derived) · current · Updated
  • OpenStreetMap amenities — OpenStreetMap contributors · current · Updated

Green cover

Green cover of suburb area
0%
Woodland / forest cover
0%
Parks & woodland features (OSM)
0
Parks (OSM)
0
Typical summer maximum
24°C

Green cover is the share of this suburb's boundary overlapping OpenStreetMap parks, woodland and forest polygons — not a satellite tree-canopy product. Summer maximum is the WorldClim / Open-Meteo seasonal normal already collected for Weather.

Contributes to desirability score · Environment (12%)

Tree canopy first, then green-cover area and parks per 1,000

Data sources & freshness

  • OpenStreetMap green cover and tree canopy — OpenStreetMap contributors · current · Updated · Park/woodland polygons intersected with suburb boundaries

Health access

Nearest hospital
IPC Health Deer Park (10.2 km)
Nearest hospital type
Hospital
Nearest hospital emergency
Emergency department
GP clinics in suburb
0

GP clinic counts from OpenStreetMap. Bulk-billing figures only include clinics tagged in OSM (sparse and unofficial — not a Medicare list).

Contributes to desirability score · Accessibility (12%)

Hospitals, GPs and aged care

Data sources & freshness

NDIS participation

NDIS participants (31 March 2026)
56
Participants per 1,000 residents
23.0

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

Weather

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.

Summer (Dec–Feb)

Usual max / min
24° / 13°
Rainfall
155 mm · ~19 rainy days

Autumn (Mar–May)

Usual max / min
20° / 11°
Rainfall
186 mm · ~23 rainy days

Winter (Jun–Aug)

Usual max / min
14° / 6°
Rainfall
203 mm · ~25 rainy days

Spring (Sep–Nov)

Usual max / min
18° / 9°
Rainfall
207 mm · ~26 rainy days

Contributes to desirability score · Lifestyle (12%)

Temperature and humidity comfort

Data sources & freshness

  • Seasonal climate normals — WorldClim 2.1 · Updated

Future & Planning

Hazards

Bushfire planning zone
No overlay at centroid
Flood / inundation overlay
100% of suburb boundary

Bushfire overlay checked at suburb centroid via Victorian Bushfire Management Overlay mapping. Flood cover uses inundation overlay polygons against the suburb boundary where published.

Contributes to desirability score · Safety (22%)

Bushfire and flood hazard overlays

Data sources & freshness

  • Bushfire and flood planning overlays — State government hazard layers · current · Updated

Politics & representation

Federal electorate
Gorton
Member of Parliament
Alice JORDAN-BAIRD (Australian Labor Party)
Results from
2025 federal election
Electorate enrolment (2025)
129,230
Turnout (2025)
91.8%
Swing since 2022 (2025)
+0.3 pp toward Labor

Two-party preferred (2025)

Coalition 39.7%Labor 60.3%

Estimated suburb voting profile

Estimated from 8 nearby ordinary polling places (up to 4.4 km away).

Coalition 41.0%Labor 59.0%

1.3 percentage points more Coalition-leaning than the electorate

Estimated swing since 2022: +3.0 pp toward Labor

Nearest polling places

  • Taylors Lakes NorthLabor 56.5% · Coalition 43.5% TPP (2025)1.9 km away
  • Hillside (Gorton)Labor 56.5% · Coalition 43.5% TPP (2025)2.5 km away
  • Sydenham CentralLabor 58.6% · Coalition 41.4% TPP (2025)2.6 km away
  • Sydenham WestLabor 63.4% · Coalition 36.6% TPP (2025)2.9 km away
  • Hillside SouthLabor 60.1% · Coalition 39.9% TPP (2025)3.0 km away

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

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