Suburb profile
Cockatoo VIC 3781
Cockatoo is located in the South East Melbourne region of Victoria, postcode 3781. It has 1,904 properties across 107 streets, almost all houses. Explore every street in Cockatoo, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.
About Cockatoo
Cockatoo, VIC 3781, sits in South East Melbourne and neighbours Avonsleigh, Emerald, Gembrook and Macclesfield. Its 107 streets hold 1,904 properties, 1,872 of them houses and 32 units.
Census figures are for the Emerald - Cockatoo area, which had 18,633 residents, a median age of 41 and an average household of 2.9 people. Median household income was $2,176 a week, the median mortgage repayment $1,980 a month and the median rent $370 a week. Of 6,043 dwellings, 5,979 were separate houses, 22 semi-detached and 29 flats; 2,086 were owned outright, 3,354 owned with a mortgage and 449 rented.
Updated October 2026
Who lives in Cockatoo
- 18,633Peoplelive in the area
- 41Median ageyears
- $2,176Median household incomea week
- $370Median renta week
Homes by type
- Houses5,979
- Townhouses and semis22
- Flats and apartments29
Household
- Median mortgage repayment$1,980a month
- Household size2.9people on average
How homes are held
Schools in Cockatoo
Cockatoo Primary School
GovernmentPrimary
No secondary schools in Cockatoo.
Streets in Cockatoo
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- Bailey Road43 properties
- Baker Street40 properties
- Beatty Parade16 properties
- Bedford Road12 properties
- Belgrave Avenue29 properties
- Belgrave-Gembrook Road62 properties
- Bell Street4 properties
- Bilocla Avenue18 properties
- Birdwood Avenue16 properties
- Bluebird Avenue6 properties
- Boronia Crescent23 properties
- Brisbanes Road13 properties
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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.