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Best value suburbs in Melbourne

What each suburb offers against what it costs to live there.

How this is ranked. The value score — amenity, safety and access measured against median rent — blended with the raw rent percentile. Suburbs whose rental market is too thin to score reliably are left out rather than guessed at. 215 of 216 Melbourne suburbs had enough data to be ranked. Updated August 2026.

#	Suburb	Median rent ($/wk)	Value score
1	Yallambie	340	99
2	Attwood	358	97
3	Diamond Creek	430	94
4	Taylors Hill	420	91
5	Seabrook	361	91
6	Yarrambat	450	93
7	Eaglemont	453	98
8	Plenty	392	100
9	Ivanhoe East	451	99
10	Burnside Heights	411	88
11	Point Cook	400	96
12	Eltham North	512	85
13	South Kingsville	381	96
14	Canterbury	515	90
15	Aberfeldie	440	95
16	Kingsville	355	98
17	Strathmore	450	89
18	Oak Park	401	88
19	Lower Plenty	400	84
20	Surrey Hills	462	86
21	Glen Iris	450	89
22	Eltham	440	87
23	Ashburton	455	97
24	Keilor Lodge	421	74
25	Williams Landing	420	97

Showing the top 25 of 215 ranked suburbs. Scores are percentiles against every other suburb in Melbourne: 100 is the best in the city, 50 is mid-table. Click any suburb for its full profile.

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Sources: open GPS activity traces, official crime statistics, ABS census, OpenStreetMap (ODbL). No ranking on this site is sold or sponsored.
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