Suburb profile

Canterbury VIC 3126

Canterbury is located in the Inner East Melbourne region of Victoria, postcode 3126. It has 4,103 properties across 101 streets, mostly houses. Explore every street in Canterbury, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About Canterbury

Canterbury, VIC 3126, sits in Inner East Melbourne and neighbours Balwyn, Hawthorn East, Kew and Camberwell. Its 101 streets hold 4,103 properties, 2,859 of them houses and 1,244 units.

Census figures are for Surrey Hills (West) - Canterbury, which has 15,944 residents, a median age of 45 and an average household of 2.7 people. Median household income is $2,709 a week, the median mortgage repayment $3,150 a month and the median rent $475 a week. Of 5,754 dwellings, 3,782 were separate houses, 1,305 semi-detached and 641 flats, with 26 other. Of the same 5,754, 2,604 were owned outright, 1,877 owned with a mortgage and 1,140 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in Canterbury

  • 15,944Peoplelive in the area
  • 45Median ageyears
  • $2,709Median household incomea week
  • $475Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses3,782
  • Townhouses and semis1,305
  • Flats and apartments641
  • Other26

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$3,150a month
  • Household size2.7people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 2,604Owned with a mortgage 1,877Rented 1,140Other 133

Schools in Canterbury

  • Camberwell Girls Grammar School

    IndependentPrimary and secondary

  • Camberwell Girls Grammar School - Junior Campus

    IndependentPrimary and secondary

  • Camberwell Grammar School

    IndependentPrimary and secondary

  • Canterbury Primary School

    GovernmentPrimary

  • Strathcona Baptist Girls' Grammar

    IndependentPrimary and secondary

Streets in Canterbury

A

  1. Albion Street1 property
  2. Alexandra Avenue76 properties
  3. Allenby Road28 properties
  4. Alta Street39 properties
  5. Angle Road1 property
  6. Athol Place3 properties
  7. Avenue Athol53 properties

B

  1. Balwyn Road79 properties
  2. Barnsbury Road1 property
  3. Beaumont Street11 properties
  4. Boronia Street28 properties
  5. Bristol Street1 property
  6. Bryson Street73 properties
  7. Burke Road75 properties
  8. Burnside Avenue12 properties
  9. Byron Street38 properties

C

  1. Canterbury Road397 properties
  2. Carinda Road17 properties
  3. Catherine Street17 properties
  4. Chatham Road123 properties
  5. Chaucer Crescent120 properties
  6. Church Street24 properties
  7. Claremont Crescent13 properties
  8. Compton Street27 properties
  9. Cooba Street20 properties
  10. Cross Street13 properties

D

  1. Daphne Street26 properties
  2. Delany Close30 properties
  3. Dorothea Street6 properties
  4. Dryden Street43 properties
  5. Dudley Parade49 properties

E

  1. Elphin Grove12 properties
  2. Erica Street14 properties

F

  1. Faversham Road126 properties
  2. Flinders Avenue8 properties
  3. Frognall Place13 properties

G

  1. Gascoyne Street74 properties
  2. Golding Street33 properties
  3. Grange Avenue16 properties
  4. Griotte Street10 properties
  5. Gwenda Avenue22 properties

H

  1. Hassett Avenue6 properties
  2. Highfield Road138 properties
  3. Hocknell Street7 properties
  4. Hopetoun Avenue65 properties

I

  1. Irilbarra Road39 properties

K

  1. Keats Street2 properties
  2. Kendall Street15 properties
  3. Knox Street2 properties

L

  1. Leeds Street15 properties
  2. Logan Street47 properties

M

  1. Maling Road227 properties
  2. Mangarra Road47 properties
  3. Marden Street17 properties
  4. Margaret Street33 properties
  5. Marlowe Street16 properties
  6. Matlock Street26 properties
  7. Maysia Street44 properties
  8. Mcgregor Street29 properties
  9. Milton Street48 properties
  10. Molesworth Street6 properties
  11. Monomeath Avenue53 properties
  12. Monomeath Place5 properties
  13. Mont Albert Road200 properties
  14. Moresby Street8 properties
  15. Mountfield Street3 properties
  16. Myrtle Road44 properties

O

  1. Oak Street7 properties

P

  1. Parlington Street59 properties
  2. Pin Oak Court22 properties
  3. Prospect Hill Road115 properties

Q

  1. Quantock Street16 properties

R

  1. Railway Place1 property
  2. Reeve Lane4 properties
  3. Riversdale Road1 property
  4. Rochester Road149 properties
  5. Rubens Grove52 properties

S

  1. Salisbury Street1 property
  2. Scott Street40 properties
  3. Selwyn Street27 properties
  4. Shierlaw Avenue15 properties
  5. Short Street1 property
  6. Shrublands Court3 properties
  7. Snowden Place4 properties
  8. Stanley Grove50 properties
  9. Stanley Terrace2 properties

T

  1. The Ridge64 properties
  2. Theatre Place9 properties
  3. Torrington Place16 properties
  4. Torrington Street25 properties

V

  1. Vaughan Avenue10 properties
  2. Victoria Avenue61 properties
  3. View Street24 properties

W

  1. Walsh Street1 property
  2. Warburton Road76 properties
  3. Wattle Valley Road184 properties
  4. Wentworth Avenue70 properties
  5. Willandra Avenue20 properties
  6. Willow Grove42 properties
  7. Winson Green Road14 properties
  8. Woodstock Street4 properties

Neighbouring suburbs

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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.

School details © Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), from the Australian Schools List, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International and modified. ACARA does not endorse Listd.

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