Suburb profile
Dawson VIC 3858
Dawson is located in the Gippsland region of Victoria, postcode 3858. It has 32 properties across 6 streets, almost all houses. Explore every street in Dawson, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.
About Dawson
Dawson, VIC 3858, sits in the Gippsland region and neighbours Cowwarr, Heyfield and Seaton. Its 6 streets hold 32 properties, all 32 of them houses.
Census figures are for the Maffra area, which covers 0.939 of the suburb. The area had 14,756 residents, a median age of 43 and an average household of 2.4 people. Median household income was $1,324 a week, the median mortgage repayment $1,300 a month and the median rent $250 a week. Of 5,626 dwellings, 5,367 were separate houses, 9 semi-detached, 211 flats and 34 other; 2,348 were owned outright, 2,110 owned with a mortgage and 925 rented.
Updated October 2026
Who lives in Dawson
- 14,756Peoplelive in the area
- 43Median ageyears
- $1,324Median household incomea week
- $250Median renta week
Homes by type
- Houses5,367
- Townhouses and semis9
- Flats and apartments211
- Other34
Household
- Median mortgage repayment$1,300a month
- Household size2.4people on average
How homes are held
Streets in Dawson
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.