Suburb profile

Balaclava VIC 3183

Balaclava is located in the Inner Melbourne region of Victoria, postcode 3183. It has 4,211 properties across 42 streets. Explore every street in Balaclava, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About Balaclava

Balaclava, VIC 3183, sits in Inner Melbourne and neighbours Ripponlea, St Kilda, St Kilda East and Elwood. Its 42 streets hold 4,211 properties, 1,580 of them houses and 2,631 units.

Census figures are for the St Kilda East area, which has 15,813 residents, a median age of 34 and an average household of 1.9 people. Median household income is $1,988 a week, the median mortgage repayment $2,100 a month and the median rent $384 a week. Of 7,502 dwellings, 1,090 are separate houses, 1,095 semi-detached, 5,255 flats and 53 other; 1,348 are owned outright, 2,159 owned with a mortgage and 3,803 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in Balaclava

  • 15,813Peoplelive in the area
  • 34Median ageyears
  • $1,988Median household incomea week
  • $384Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses1,090
  • Townhouses and semis1,095
  • Flats and apartments5,255
  • Other53

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$2,100a month
  • Household size1.9people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 1,348Owned with a mortgage 2,159Rented 3,803Other 192

Properties in Balaclava

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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.