Suburb profile

East Melbourne VIC 3002

East Melbourne is located in the Inner Melbourne region of Victoria, postcode 3002. It has 6,952 properties across 50 streets, mostly units. Explore every street in East Melbourne, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About East Melbourne

East Melbourne, VIC 3002, sits in Inner Melbourne and neighbours Collingwood, Fitzroy, Richmond and Carlton. Its 50 streets hold 6,952 properties, 1,703 of them houses and 5,249 units.

At the 2021 Census East Melbourne had 4,896 residents, a median age of 42 and an average household of 1.8 people. Median household income was $2,345 a week, the median mortgage repayment $2,383 a month and the median rent $480 a week. Of 2,396 dwellings, 77 were separate houses, 538 semi-detached and 1,762 flats, with 3 other; 645 were owned outright, 428 owned with a mortgage and 1,264 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in East Melbourne

  • 4,896Peoplelive in the area
  • 42Median ageyears
  • $2,345Median household incomea week
  • $480Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses77
  • Townhouses and semis538
  • Flats and apartments1,762
  • Other3

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$2,383a month
  • Household size1.8people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 645Owned with a mortgage 428Rented 1,264Other 59

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Streets in East Melbourne

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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.