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Region · Melbourne, VIC

Inner South Melbourne

Inner South Melbourne is located in Melbourne, Victoria, with 42 suburbs and 251,595 properties across 4,502 streets. Explore each suburb's profile, property history, homes for sale and rent, and the agents who sell in Inner South Melbourne. Its largest suburbs include Cheltenham, Bentleigh East and Brighton.

About Inner South Melbourne

Inner South Melbourne is a region of Melbourne, Victoria, and neighbours Inner Melbourne, Inner East Melbourne, South East Melbourne and Mornington Peninsula. Its 42 suburbs and 4,502 streets hold 251,595 properties, 146,066 of them houses and 105,529 units. The largest suburbs by properties are Cheltenham with 16,645, Bentleigh East with 15,617, Brighton with 15,588 and Malvern East with 13,912.

At the 2021 Census Inner South Melbourne had 422,639 residents, a median age of 41 and an average household of 2.5 people. Median household income was $2,174 a week, the median mortgage repayment $2,400 a month and the median rent $438 a week. Of 163,682 dwellings, 86,938 were separate houses, 39,639 semi-detached and 35,941 flats; 56,772 were owned outright, 56,121 owned with a mortgage and 46,413 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in Inner South Melbourne

  • 422,639Peoplelive in the area
  • 41Median ageyears
  • $2,174Median household incomea week
  • $438Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses86,938
  • Townhouses and semis39,639
  • Flats and apartments35,941
  • Other1,012

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$2,400a month
  • Household size2.5people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 56,772Owned with a mortgage 56,121Rented 46,413Other 4,376

Suburbs in Inner South Melbourne

A

  1. Aspendale3,666 properties
  2. Aspendale Gardens2,458 properties

B

  1. Beaumaris6,935 properties
  2. Bentleigh10,110 properties
  3. Bentleigh East15,617 properties
  4. Black Rock3,791 properties
  5. Bonbeach4,047 properties
  6. Braeside1,910 properties
  7. Brighton15,588 properties
  8. Brighton East8,951 properties

C

  1. Carnegie12,026 properties
  2. Carrum2,904 properties
  3. Caulfield3,327 properties
  4. Caulfield East1,024 properties
  5. Caulfield North11,208 properties
  6. Caulfield South6,690 properties
  7. Chelsea5,513 properties
  8. Chelsea Heights2,534 properties
  9. Cheltenham16,645 properties

E

  1. Edithvale3,778 properties
  2. Elsternwick6,997 properties

G

  1. Gardenvale695 properties
  2. Glen Huntly3,193 properties

H

  1. Hampton8,052 properties
  2. Hampton East3,768 properties
  3. Heatherton1,517 properties
  4. Highett8,702 properties
  5. Hughesdale4,475 properties

K

  1. Kooyong511 properties

M

  1. Malvern7,017 properties
  2. Malvern East13,912 properties
  3. McKinnon3,629 properties
  4. Mentone8,481 properties
  5. Moorabbin6,452 properties
  6. Moorabbin Airport389 properties
  7. Mordialloc6,033 properties
  8. Murrumbeena5,893 properties

O

  1. Ormond4,820 properties

P

  1. Parkdale6,773 properties
  2. Patterson Lakes3,918 properties

S

  1. Sandringham6,845 properties

W

  1. Waterways801 properties

For sale and rent in Inner South Melbourne

Tom TangTom Tang

For Sale: $1,600,000-$1,700,000

18 McLean Avenue, Bentleigh VIC 3204

4 bedrooms 2 bathrooms 2 car spaces 572 m² land House

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Joy WangJoy Wang
Updated 8 hours ago

For Sale: $1,500,000

4b Plymouth Street, Bentleigh East VIC 3165

4 bedrooms 3 bathrooms 2 car spaces Townhouse

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Agents who sell in Inner South Melbourne

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Addresses and streets incorporate or were developed using G-NAF © Geoscape Australia, licensed by the Commonwealth of Australia under the Open Geo-coded National Address File (G-NAF) End User Licence Agreement.

Population and housing figures are drawn from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing 2021, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International.

Area summaries are generated from the national address file and ABS Census data, and checked against those figures before publication.