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Mont Albert North
Ranked #13 of 216 Melbourne suburbs for safety. Every number below comes from open data — official crime statistics, ABS census and GPS activity traces — not opinion.
Mont Albert North suburb profile: score breakdown
Mont Albert North crime rate, rent, prices and other numbers
| Population | 5,609 |
| Area | 1.65 km² |
| Postcode | 3129 |
| Median household income | $2,184/wk |
| Median rent | $500/wk |
| Median house price (Oct–Dec 2025) | $1,710,000 (15 sales this quarter; up 9.4% YoY, down 10.9% QoQ) |
| Median unit price (Oct–Dec 2025) | $1,500,000 (17 sales this quarter; up 7.3% YoY, up 11.9% QoQ) |
| Crime rate | 25.3 incidents per 1,000 people — 82% of offences are against property, 18% against the person |
| Parks | 14 (3.9 ha per 1,000 people) |
| Schools (government data) | 0 — 0 primary, 0 secondary; nearest primary 0.64 km, secondary 0.8 km |
| Families score | 70/100 (safety 30 · schools 25 · parks per 1,000 15 · kinders 10 · price-for-size 10 · transit 10) |
| Within 400m of a park | 96.0% of the suburb |
| Cafés | 3 |
| Gyms & sport venues | 24 |
| Public transport stops | 23 (23 bus stops) |
| Nearest parkrun | Gardiners Creek parkrun (4.78 km) |
| Schools nearby (OSM, not catchment zoning) | 0 schools in the suburb, plus 2 kindergartens — nearest is Koonung Secondary College (0.51 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 Mont Albert North
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 Mont Albert North — the fields above are everything the census data behind this site currently carries.
Common questions about Mont Albert North
What is the postcode for Mont Albert North?
The postcode for Mont Albert North, Melbourne is 3129.
Is Mont Albert North a good suburb?
There is no single invented "overall" score here -- Mont Albert North is measured on 10 separate categories rather than blended into one number. Its strongest is safety, ranking #13 of 216 Melbourne suburbs, and it ranks in the top half of Melbourne for 7 of the 10 categories measured here. The full breakdown is above.
Is Mont Albert North safe?
Yes — it is one of the safer parts of Melbourne, scoring 94/100 for safety and ranking #13 of 216 suburbs. Recorded offences run at 25 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 Mont Albert North good for families?
It rates well on the family measures we can compute — safety 94/100, parks 86/100 and green space 72/100, with a median age of 43. It has 0 schools in the suburb, with the nearest primary 0.6 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 Mont Albert North expensive to live in?
The median house sale price was $1,710,000 in Oct–Dec 2025 (Victorian Property Sales Report), up 9.4% YoY, down 10.9% QoQ. Median rent is $500 a week, and household income ranks #73 of 216 in Melbourne. Against what the suburb offers, it scores 25/100 for value.
Does Mont Albert North have good public transport?
It scores 45/100 for transit, #119 of 216 in Melbourne. That measures train, tram and bus access within the suburb boundary, weighted by mode.
Are there parks in Mont Albert North?
96% of the suburb is within walking distance of a park, at 3.9 hectares per 1,000 residents — 72/100 for green space.
Is Mont Albert North good for running?
The nearest parkrun is Gardiners Creek parkrun, 4.8 km away, and GPS activity traces put it at 52/100 for how much walking, running and riding actually happens there.
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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
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