Suburb profile

Beech Forest VIC 3237

Beech Forest is located in the Warrnambool and South West Victoria region of Victoria, postcode 3237. It has 216 properties across 21 streets, almost all houses. Explore every street in Beech Forest, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About Beech Forest

Beech Forest, VIC 3237, sits in the Warrnambool and South West Victoria region and neighbours Carlisle River, Gellibrand, Apollo Bay and Weeaproinah. Its 21 streets hold 216 properties, 213 of them houses and 3 units.

Census figures are for the Otway area. At the 2021 Census Otway had 4,008 residents, a median age of 52 and an average household of 2.1 people. Median household income was $1,167 a week, the median mortgage repayment $1,387 a month and the median rent $285 a week. Of 1,602 dwellings, 1,451 were separate houses, 84 semi-detached, 36 flats and 23 other; 800 were owned outright, 416 owned with a mortgage and 313 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in Beech Forest

  • 4,008Peoplelive in the area
  • 52Median ageyears
  • $1,167Median household incomea week
  • $285Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses1,451
  • Townhouses and semis84
  • Flats and apartments36
  • Other23

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$1,387a month
  • Household size2.1people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 800Owned with a mortgage 416Rented 313Other 73

Streets in Beech Forest

Neighbouring suburbs

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.