Suburb profile
Fairfield VIC 3078
Fairfield is located in the Inner Melbourne region of Victoria, postcode 3078. It has 4,335 properties across 47 streets. Explore every street in Fairfield, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.
About Fairfield
Fairfield, VIC 3078, sits in Inner Melbourne and neighbours Abbotsford, Alphington, Kew and Northcote. Its 47 streets hold 4,335 properties, 2,343 of them houses and 1,992 units.
Census figures are for the Alphington - Fairfield area, which has 8,994 residents, a median age of 38 and an average household of 2.3 people. Median household income is $2,112 a week, the median mortgage repayment $2,200 a month and the median rent $381 a week. Of 3,690 dwellings, 1,911 were separate houses, 798 semi-detached, 961 flats and 11 other; 1,146 were owned outright, 1,094 owned with a mortgage and 1,386 rented.
Updated October 2026
Who lives in Fairfield
- 8,994Peoplelive in the area
- 38Median ageyears
- $2,112Median household incomea week
- $381Median renta week
Homes by type
- Houses1,911
- Townhouses and semis798
- Flats and apartments961
- Other11
Household
- Median mortgage repayment$2,200a month
- Household size2.3people on average
How homes are held
Properties in Fairfield
Schools in Fairfield
Fairfield Primary School
GovernmentPrimary
No secondary schools in Fairfield.
Local agents in Fairfield


Joshua Chong - Cuspac Property Group
Licensed Estate Agent Hudson Bond Real Estate
Last 12 months
- Property sold
- 1
- Median sold price
- $542k
- Median days on market
- 186


Jason Kounnas
Director Hudson Bond Real Estate
Last 12 months
- Properties sold
- 49
- Median sold price
- $740k
- Median days on market
- 50
Agencies that specialise in Fairfield
Streets in Fairfield
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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.
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.



