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Yallambie
Ranked #3 of 216 Melbourne suburbs for value. Every number below comes from open data — official crime statistics, ABS census and GPS activity traces — not opinion.
Yallambie suburb profile: score breakdown
Yallambie crime rate, rent, prices and other numbers
| Population | 4,161 |
| Area | 2.86 km² |
| Postcode | 3085 |
| Median household income | $2,320/wk |
| Median rent | $340/wk |
| Median house price (Oct–Dec 2025) | $1,026,800 (low volume: 8 sales; down 10.3% YoY, up 6.5% QoQ) |
| Crime rate | 19.5 incidents per 1,000 people — 62% of offences are against property, 38% against the person |
| Parks | 23 (6.42 ha per 1,000 people) |
| Schools (government data) | 1 — 1 primary, 0 secondary; nearest primary 0.51 km, secondary 1.8 km |
| Families score | 71/100 (safety 30 · schools 25 · parks per 1,000 15 · kinders 10 · price-for-size 10 · transit 10) |
| Within 400m of a park | 79.7% of the suburb |
| Cafés | 0 |
| Gyms & sport venues | 17 |
| Public transport stops | 28 (28 bus stops) |
| Nearest parkrun | Warringal Parklands parkrun (3.63 km) |
| Schools nearby (OSM, not catchment zoning) | 1 school in the suburb — nearest is Streeton Primary School (0.86 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 Yallambie
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 Yallambie — the fields above are everything the census data behind this site currently carries.
Common questions about Yallambie
What is the postcode for Yallambie?
The postcode for Yallambie, Melbourne is 3085.
Is Yallambie a good suburb?
There is no single invented "overall" score here -- Yallambie is measured on 10 separate categories rather than blended into one number. Its strongest is value, ranking #3 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 Yallambie safe?
Yes — it is one of the safer parts of Melbourne, scoring 97/100 for safety and ranking #7 of 216 suburbs. Recorded offences run at 20 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 Yallambie good for families?
It rates well on the family measures we can compute — safety 97/100, parks 94/100 and green space 56/100, with a median age of 35. It has 1 school in the suburb, with the nearest primary 0.5 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 Yallambie expensive to live in?
The median house sale price was $1,026,800 in Oct–Dec 2025 (Victorian Property Sales Report), down 10.3% YoY, up 6.5% QoQ. Median rent is $340 a week, and household income ranks #43 of 216 in Melbourne. Against what the suburb offers, it scores 99/100 for value.
Does Yallambie have good public transport?
It scores 25/100 for transit, #162 of 216 in Melbourne. That measures train, tram and bus access within the suburb boundary, weighted by mode.
Are there parks in Yallambie?
80% of the suburb is within walking distance of a park, at 6.4 hectares per 1,000 residents — 56/100 for green space.
Is Yallambie good for running?
The nearest parkrun is Warringal Parklands parkrun, 3.6 km away, and GPS activity traces put it at 41/100 for how much walking, running and riding actually happens there.
Nearby suburbs
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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