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Essendon West VIC 3040

Essendon West is located in the North West Melbourne region of Victoria, postcode 3040. It has 827 properties across 20 streets, mostly houses. Explore every street in Essendon West, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About Essendon West

Essendon West, VIC 3040, sits in North West Melbourne and neighbours Aberfeldie, Avondale Heights, Keilor East and Maribyrnong. Its 20 streets hold 827 properties, 585 of them houses and 242 units.

Census figures are for Niddrie - Essendon West, which had 7,460 residents, a median age of 40 and an average household of 2.6 people. Median household income was $2,239 a week, the median mortgage repayment $2,400 a month and the median rent $435 a week. Of 2,775 dwellings, 1,819 were separate houses, 877 semi-detached, 72 flats and 8 other; 1,027 were owned outright, 1,024 owned with a mortgage and 660 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in Essendon West

  • 7,460Peoplelive in the area
  • 40Median ageyears
  • $2,239Median household incomea week
  • $435Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses1,819
  • Townhouses and semis877
  • Flats and apartments72
  • Other8

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$2,400a month
  • Household size2.6people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 1,027Owned with a mortgage 1,024Rented 660Other 64

For sale and rent in Essendon West

Jonathan DeVitoJonathan DeVito
Updated 12 hours ago

Private Sale $3,000,000 Indicative Selling Price

33 Clydebank Road, Essendon West VIC 3040

4 bedrooms 3 bathrooms 3 car spaces House

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Phillip CastroPhillip Castro

RESERVE | $990K

3/444 Buckley Street, Essendon West VIC

3 bedrooms 3 bathrooms 2 car spaces 174 m² land Townhouse

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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.