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Bentleigh East
Ranked #24 of 216 Melbourne suburbs for safety. Every number below comes from open data — official crime statistics, ABS census and GPS activity traces — not opinion.
Bentleigh East suburb profile: score breakdown
Bentleigh East crime rate, rent, prices and other numbers
| Population | 30,159 |
| Area | 8.98 km² |
| Postcode | 3165 |
| Median household income | $2,215/wk |
| Median rent | $500/wk |
| Median house price (Oct–Dec 2025) | $1,608,500 (90 sales this quarter; up 10.2% YoY, up 5.1% QoQ) |
| Median unit price (Oct–Dec 2025) | $1,195,000 (90 sales this quarter; up 35.8% YoY, up 8.6% QoQ) |
| Crime rate | 29.9 incidents per 1,000 people — 78% of offences are against property, 22% against the person |
| Parks | 16 (0.55 ha per 1,000 people) |
| Schools (government data) | 6 — 4 primary, 1 secondary; nearest primary 0.76 km, secondary 1.03 km |
| Families score | 60/100 (safety 30 · schools 25 · parks per 1,000 15 · kinders 10 · price-for-size 10 · transit 10) |
| Within 400m of a park | 49.0% of the suburb |
| Cafés | 15 |
| Gyms & sport venues | 207 |
| Public transport stops | 108 (108 bus stops) |
| Nearest parkrun | Karkarook parkrun (2.65 km) |
| Schools nearby (OSM, not catchment zoning) | 9 schools in the suburb, plus 9 kindergartens — nearest is St Peter's Primary School (0.31 km) |
Sale prices: Victorian Property Sales Report, October–December 2025 quarter — © State of Victoria (Department of Transport and Planning / Valuer-General Victoria), Victorian Property Sales Report, CC BY 4.0. Quarterly median of sales settled in the quarter, per suburb. Figures marked as low-volume rest on fewer than 10 sales that quarter.
Who lives in Bentleigh East
Source: ABS Census 2021; sale prices Victorian Property Sales Report, October–December 2025 quarter. We do not hold a suburb-level renter/owner split, families-with-children rate, born-overseas rate or dwelling-type breakdown for Bentleigh East — the fields above are everything the census data behind this site currently carries.
Common questions about Bentleigh East
What is the postcode for Bentleigh East?
The postcode for Bentleigh East, Melbourne is 3165.
Is Bentleigh East a good suburb?
There is no single invented "overall" score here -- Bentleigh East is measured on 10 separate categories rather than blended into one number. Its strongest is safety, ranking #24 of 216 Melbourne suburbs, and it ranks in the top half of Melbourne for 6 of the 10 categories measured here. The full breakdown is above.
Is Bentleigh East safe?
Yes — it is one of the safer parts of Melbourne, scoring 89/100 for safety and ranking #24 of 216 suburbs. Recorded offences run at 30 per 1,000 residents. That score is recorded offences per 1,000 residents from official crime statistics, as a percentile against every other suburb in the city.
Is Bentleigh East good for families?
Mixed, and the weak spot is parks and green space. Here are the family measures we can compute — safety 89/100, parks 9/100 and green space 8/100, with a median age of 40. It has 6 schools in the suburb, with the nearest primary 0.8 km from its centre. School counts and distances feed the families score; catchment zoning and school results do not (we cannot publish those) — see our Melbourne families ranking for the full method.
Is Bentleigh East expensive to live in?
The median house sale price was $1,608,500 in Oct–Dec 2025 (Victorian Property Sales Report), up 10.2% YoY, up 5.1% QoQ. Median rent is $500 a week, and household income ranks #61 of 216 in Melbourne. Against what the suburb offers, it scores 27/100 for value.
Does Bentleigh East have good public transport?
It scores 36/100 for transit, #139 of 216 in Melbourne. That measures train, tram and bus access within the suburb boundary, weighted by mode.
Are there parks in Bentleigh East?
49% of the suburb is within walking distance of a park, at 0.6 hectares per 1,000 residents — 8/100 for green space.
Is Bentleigh East good for running?
The nearest parkrun is Karkarook parkrun, 2.6 km away, and GPS activity traces put it at 75/100 for how much walking, running and riding actually happens there.
Scores are percentiles against every other suburb in Melbourne: 100 is the
best in the city, 50 is mid-table. Updated October 2026 (last updated 2026-10-12). Sources: open GPS activity traces,
official crime statistics, ABS census, OpenStreetMap.
About this data: every number on this page is computed from public sources — it is not an
opinion or a sponsored placement. See how we rank suburbs
for the full method.
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