Median priceⓘLast 12 months
715kk
↓ -1.9% YoY
Unit rentals just edge ahead in Port Melbourne, with 539 leases (up 1.9%) at $690 a week (up 3%) as of July 2026, renting out in about 20 days (down from 21 days last year), more sought-after than most unit rental markets nationally, with more than half being 2-bedroom.
House rentals are nearly as big, with 348 leases (up 13.4%) at $985 a week (up 10.1%), renting out in about 21 days (up from 20 days last year), among Victoria's strongest house rent gains, with 3-bedroom making up about half. Rounding it out, 315 unit sales at around $714.5k (down 1.9%) and 177 house sales at around $1.55M.
Who lives hereA high-income, renter-heavy, mixed-age suburb — apartment-dominated, with a strongly professional workforce, where working from home is the norm.
House covers houses, duplexes, semi-detached and terraces; Unit covers apartments, units, townhouses and villas.
Census data sourced from the Australian Bureau of Statistics — © Commonwealth of Australia, 2021 Census of Population and Housing and Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA) 2021 · Shares, ratios and percentiles shown are Micromarkets transformations of that data · licensed CC BY 4.0.
The age structure, household make-up, and cultural fabric of the people who call this suburb home.
Share of all residents by 5-year band · hover a band for the count + split
13% report Irish ancestry, but only 1.0% were born in Ireland — the gap is the Australian-born and diaspora Irish community, invisible in birthplace alone.
A mix of established and newer migrant families.
2020–21 understated — COVID border closures.
Census data sourced from the Australian Bureau of Statistics — © Commonwealth of Australia, 2021 Census of Population and Housing · Shares, ratios and percentiles shown are Micromarkets transformations of that data · licensed CC BY 4.0.
What it costs to live here, who owns versus rents, and the shape of the housing stock.
Census data sourced from the Australian Bureau of Statistics — © Commonwealth of Australia, 2021 Census of Population and Housing · Shares, ratios and percentiles shown are Micromarkets transformations of that data · licensed CC BY 4.0.
Incomes, employment, and the occupation mix of the people who live here.
A typical household earns about 1.7× the typical individual here.
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How people get to work, and how car-dependent the suburb is — the clearest tell of inner-urban versus outer-suburban living.
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Education · ACARA My School 2025
3 schools inside Port Melbourne, plus the closest options around it. Families can choose from 28 primary schools in Port Melbourne and its surrounds, and 10 high schools covering the secondary years. Distances are straight-line from the suburb centre and are not enrolment catchments — always confirm zones with the school.
ICSEA is ACARA’s official measure of a school’s socio-educational advantage — based mainly on parents’ education and occupation, plus the school’s location and student mix.
Why are some State Rank and star ratings blank? Schools can choose not to publish their results. In practice, schools that score well above their state average almost always publish theirs — so a blank rating more often reflects a school opting out than a top result being hidden. Academic results also tend to rise with ICSEA Rank, so higher-ICSEA schools more often carry a strong State Rank as well.
School profile and ICSEA data sourced from ACARA — © Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (data year 2025) · State Rank & star columns are Micromarkets-compiled academic ratings from publicly available school results · Distances are straight-line from the suburb centre, not catchments.
How settled or transient the community is — and where newcomers came from.
Headline price, rent, yield and time on market for Port Melbourne — choose a property type and size below.
Every segment this suburb tracks — sales and rentals side by side, ranked by total activity over the last twelve months.
Where each segment sits against its peers in the chosen geography — past the midline means it's outperforming the rest.
Market demandHow fast this market is moving — a velocity index built from trailing-year transaction volume and median days on market. Strong volume lifts the score; days on market drags it down, with the drag growing sharply once listings start lingering. Ranked against peers in the chosen geography.
What it costs each week to own a property versus renting the same one — positive means buying carries the premium, negative means rent covers the mortgage.
Two questions on one chart — how strong demand is right now, and which way it's heading year-on-year.
Eight diagnostic views cutting the data a different way each time — Port Melbourne in blue, peers in colour.
How long current listings would take to clear at the recent rate of sales or leases. Critical shortage and Oversupply only fire at the genuine tails of the national distribution — sales tip in under 0.7 months, rentals far faster, under 0.3.
| Segment | Band | Months of supply left | YoYYoY change12-month change in months of supply. Down means stock is tightening (fewer months than a year ago); up means stock is loosening. | ListedListedActive listings in this segment right now, derived from months of supply multiplied by the recent transaction rate. | SoldSold (last year)Total sold transactions completed in this segment over the last 12 months. | Per monthPer monthAverage monthly absorption — how many properties are sold each month in this segment, over the last 12 months. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tight | 1.8 | ▼ -2.7 | 13 | 85 | 7.1 | |
| Balanced | 2.4 | ▼ -0.1 | 13 | 66 | 5.5 | |
| Balanced | 2.8 | ▼ -1.3 | 74 | 315 | 26.3 | |
| Balanced | 2.9 | ▼ -0.3 | 43 | 177 | 14.8 | |
| Loose | 4.3 | ▲ +2.2 | 9 | 25 | 2.1 | |
| Loose | 4.3 | ▲ +2.0 | 63 | 177 | 14.8 | |
| Loose | 6.1 | ▲ +0.5 | 26 | 51 | 4.3 | |
| Loose | 6.2 | ▲ +4.2 | 37 | 72 | 6.0 |
| Segment | Band | Months of supply left | YoYYoY change12-month change in months of supply. Down means stock is tightening (fewer months than a year ago); up means stock is loosening. | ListedListedActive listings in this segment right now, derived from months of supply multiplied by the recent transaction rate. | LeasedLeased (last year)Total leased transactions completed in this segment over the last 12 months. | Per monthPer monthAverage monthly absorption — how many properties are leased each month in this segment, over the last 12 months. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Loose | 1.8 | ▼ -0.9 | 27 | 177 | 14.8 | |
| Oversupply | 1.9 | ▼ -1.3 | 85 | 539 | 44.9 | |
| Oversupply | 2.0 | ▼ -0.7 | 49 | 295 | 24.6 | |
| Oversupply | 2.1 | — | 10 | 58 | 4.8 | |
| Oversupply | 2.4 | ▲ +1.1 | 38 | 188 | 15.7 | |
| Oversupply | 2.4 | ▲ +0.9 | 70 | 348 | 29.0 | |
| Oversupply | 2.5 | ▲ +1.0 | 19 | 93 | 7.8 | |
| Oversupply | 5.1 | ▼ -0.6 | 24 | 57 | 4.8 |
Out of every property transaction in this suburb, what share are sales versus leases — each point a rolling twelve-month window.
Each tape traces one metric across sixty months for the selected segment — every point a trailing twelve-month figure, matching the headline KPIs above.
Five-year summaryAs of Jun 2026, the median house sale price in Port Melbourne rose from $1.50M (Jul 2021) to $1.55M (Jun 2026) — +3.6% growth over five years — peaking at $1.74M between Aug 2021 and Jul 2022. Median house rent went from $735/wk to $985/wk (+34.0%) over the same period. For units, the median sale price fell from $752k to $715k (−4.9%), with rent up from $525/wk to $690/wk (+31.4%) over the same period.
The nearest suburbs to Port Melbourne, ranked by distance — each lined up against Port Melbourne on the same measures, so the differences jump out at a glance.
Suburbs anywhere in VIC that behave like Port Melbourne — matched on price, growth, selling speed and demand, not on distance. A shortlist of markets that move the same way — including ones far away you'd never think to compare. (Want the suburbs right next door instead? See Nearby markets above.)
Port Melbourne vs Doncaster: the closest sales-market match trades at a median of $668k against Port Melbourne's $715k — about 7% lower, with homes selling in 35 days versus 36 days here.
Comparable sales markets to Port Melbourne: Doncaster median house price, Heidelberg Heights property market, Croydon North, VIC property market, Hughesdale property growth, Elsternwick average house price, Clayton South market trends, Mooroolbark property market and Malvern median house price.
Port Melbourne's closest rental-market twins: East Melbourne market trends, South Melbourne property growth, Bentleigh property market, West Melbourne (VIC 3003), Kew (VIC 3101), Armadale median house price, Hawthorn East market trends and Doncaster property market. Each link opens that suburb's full market report.
26 data-driven answers about Port Melbourne's property market — every one computed from the metrics above.
The median house price in Port Melbourne, VIC 3207 is $1.55M as of June 2026, based on 177 sales over the past 12 months. Houses there have moved +3.3% year-on-year. Prices vary by bedroom count, from compact two-bedroom homes to larger four-bedroom houses. See the bedroom-level breakdown below for 2-, 3- and 4-bedroom medians.
The median unit price in Port Melbourne, VIC 3207 is $715k as of June 2026, based on 315 sales over the past 12 months. Units have moved −1.9% year-on-year and currently trade at roughly 46% of the median house price.
The median weekly house rent in Port Melbourne is $985 as of June 2026, drawn from 348 leases over the past 12 months. Units rent for around $690 per week. House rents have moved +10.1% year-on-year. Current vacancy pressure is shown in the supply section above.
A 3 bedroom house in Port Melbourne rents for a median $1000 per week as of June 2026, drawn from 188 leases over the past 12 months. Across other house sizes: 2-bedroom $755/week, 4-bedroom $1205/week. Unit rents: 1-bedroom $565/week, 2-bedroom $735/week, 3-bedroom $1100/week. Figures cover only segments with enough recent leases to be statistically meaningful; sparse segments are excluded. The segment breakdown covers rent, yield and days on market for every property type and bedroom count.
Gross rental yield in Port Melbourne is 3.30% for houses and 5.00% for units as of June 2026, compared with the VIC unit median of 5.19%. Gross yield is annual rent divided by purchase price — it doesn't account for ownership costs like council rates, strata, maintenance or vacancy.
As of June 2026, Port Melbourne medians by bedroom count:
| Property | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Houses | — | $1.28M | $1.7M | $2.27M | $1.55M |
| Units | $489k | $772k | $1.17M | — | $715k |
Figures cover only segments with enough recent transactions to be statistically meaningful; sparse segments are excluded.
At the median Port Melbourne house ($1.55M purchase, $985/week rent), weekly mortgage repayments sit at roughly $1714 — about $729 more per week than renting. That gap is the ownership premium. For the median unit ($715k purchase, $690/week rent), repayments run about $790 per week. Figures assume 80% LVR, a 6.0% interest rate and a 30-year principal-and-interest loan.
Port Melbourne's property market trends to June 2026: house prices rose +3.3% year-on-year and units −1.9%; weekly house rents moved +10.1%; homes now sell in a median 27 days — slower than a year ago by 2; sales supply sits at 4.3 months (loose). Read together — price, rent, selling speed and supply — they show which way the Port Melbourne market is leaning. The 5-year tape and demand cycle charts above plot the full trajectory.
As of June 2026 in Port Melbourne, house prices rose +3.3% over the year, gross rental yield is 3.30% against a VIC median of 3.82%, houses take a median 27 days to sell, sales supply is 4.3 months (loose). Capital growth, rental yield, selling speed and supply are the signals investors weigh — but these figures describe the market, not a recommendation. This is data, not financial advice; always do your own research and consider a licensed adviser.
Houses in Port Melbourne sell in a median 27 days on market as of June 2026, with units clearing slightly slower at 36 days. Days on market have lengthened by 2 days versus a year ago. Faster clearance typically coincides with stronger buyer demand and lower supply.
Port Melbourne's sales market sits at 4.3 months of supply for houses as of June 2026 — classified as Loose against the Australian distribution. Under 1.7 months is Severe (extreme shortage); over 4.5 months is Loose. The rental side is tighter still at 2.4 months of supply.
House prices in Port Melbourne moved +3.3% over the 12 months to June 2026, while units moved −1.9%. The 5-year tape above plots the full monthly trajectory — showing where the market changed character rather than just crossing round numbers.
Port Melbourne's house rental market sits at 2.4 months of supply as of June 2026 — classified as Very Loose, with 348 houses leased over the past 12 months. Units sit at 1.9 months. Tighter supply typically corresponds to faster letting and upward pressure on rents.
Port Melbourne's house market is currently in the 'in_demand_easing' phase as of June 2026 — combining above-median sales velocity nationally with year-on-year loosening in days on market. The demand cycle chart above plots all eight segments on the same demand-versus-direction axes.
Port Melbourne's median house price ($1.55M) is 100% above the VIC median ($775k) as of June 2026. On selling speed, houses clear in 27 days vs 29 days state median. On gross yield, Port Melbourne sits at 3.30% vs 3.82% state median.
Port Melbourne's most-similar nearby market is Windsor (6.5 km away) with a median house price of $1.39M — about 10% cheaper. The Nearby and Similar markets sections above rank every peer within radius and by composite similarity across price, days on market, yield, ownership cost and cycle phase.
The most-transacted segment in Port Melbourne over the 12 months to June 2026 is 2 bed units with 177 sales. 1 bed units come second at 85 sales. The buying-versus-renting section above breaks down the top segments with weekly mortgage, rent and ownership-cost detail.
Port Melbourne recorded 177 house sales and 315 unit sales over the 12 months to June 2026 — a combined 492 transactions. On the rental side, 348 houses and 539 units were leased. Segments with statistically thin samples are excluded from displayed figures.
Port Melbourne is in postcode 3207, in the Inner Melbourne region of VIC. Addresses there are written as Port Melbourne, VIC 3207.
Port Melbourne, VIC 3207 is home to 17,633 residents (ABS Census 2021). The median resident age is 42, and the average household holds 2.1 people. The "Who lives here" section above breaks the community down by age, life stage and tenure.
The median household in Port Melbourne earns $2k per week — roughly $123k a year (ABS Census 2021). Median personal income runs $1k/week. Income, rent-to-income and mortgage-to-income context sits in the "Who lives here" section above.
The unemployment rate in Port Melbourne is 4.0% (ABS Census 2021). That sits right around the median for Australian suburbs. The rate counts people who are working or actively looking for work — not a share of all residents. Workforce participation sits at 72%. The local economy section above covers incomes, employment status and the occupation mix.
Port Melbourne is mostly owner-occupied: about 55% of households are owner-occupiers and 44% rent (ABS Census 2021). Of owners, 26% own outright and 29% are paying off a mortgage.
Port Melbourne has 150 schools within reach, 3 of them inside the suburb itself — including Port Melbourne Primary School, Port Melbourne Secondary College, Port Phillip Specialist School. The Schools section above maps each one with sector, year range, enrolment, Micromarkets-compiled academic ratings and ICSEA (ACARA).
Port Melbourne, VIC 3207 has a population of 17,633, a median age of 42, a median household income around $2k/week, 44% of households renting (ABS Census 2021). There are 150 schools within reach. Whether it's the right fit depends on your priorities — these figures describe the community, housing mix and amenity rather than offer a verdict.
This Port Melbourne market data was last updated July 2026, covering the 12 months to June 2026. Figures are computed monthly from 12-month rolling windows of recorded sales and leases, with five years of monthly history behind the trend charts. Methodology, glossary and data sources are linked in the footer.
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