Suburb profile
Big Desert VIC 3490
Big Desert is located in the North West Victoria region of Victoria, postcode 3490. It has 9 properties across 4 streets, almost all houses. Explore every street in Big Desert, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.
About Big Desert
Big Desert, VIC 3490, sits in North West Victoria and neighbours Albacutya, Boinka, Carina and Linga. Its 4 streets hold 9 properties, all of them houses.
Census figures are for Mildura Surrounds, an area that covers part of the suburb. At the 2021 Census it had 3,726 residents, a median age of 46 and an average household of 2.3 people. Median household income was $1,239 a week, the median mortgage repayment $900 a month and the median rent $150 a week. Of 1,427 dwellings, 1,322 were separate houses, 27 semi-detached, 6 flats and 75 other; 712 were owned outright, 326 owned with a mortgage and 275 rented.
Updated October 2026
Who lives in Big Desert
- 3,726Peoplelive in the area
- 46Median ageyears
- $1,239Median household incomea week
- $150Median renta week
Homes by type
- Houses1,322
- Townhouses and semis27
- Flats and apartments6
- Other75
Household
- Median mortgage repayment$900a month
- Household size2.3people on average
How homes are held
Streets in Big Desert
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.