Suburb profile

Faraday VIC 3451

Faraday is located in the Bendigo region of Victoria, postcode 3451. It has 143 properties across 19 streets, almost all houses. Explore every street in Faraday, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About Faraday

Faraday, VIC 3451, sits in the Bendigo region and neighbours Chewton, Chewton Bushlands, Elphinstone and Golden Point. Its 19 streets hold 143 properties, all of them houses.

Census figures are for Castlemaine Surrounds, the statistical area that contains Faraday. At the 2021 Census it had 9,225 residents, a median age of 52 and an average household of 2.2 people. Median household income was $1,317 a week, the median mortgage repayment $1,473 a month and the median rent $280 a week. Of 3,799 dwellings, 3,744 were separate houses, 19 semi-detached, 9 flats and 20 other; 1,913 were owned outright, 1,425 owned with a mortgage and 319 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in Faraday

  • 9,225Peoplelive in the area
  • 52Median ageyears
  • $1,317Median household incomea week
  • $280Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses3,744
  • Townhouses and semis19
  • Flats and apartments9
  • Other20

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$1,473a month
  • Household size2.2people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 1,913Owned with a mortgage 1,425Rented 319Other 142

Streets in Faraday

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.