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Gardenvale VIC 3185

Gardenvale is located in the Inner South Melbourne region of Victoria, postcode 3185. It has 695 properties across 10 streets. Explore every street in Gardenvale, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About Gardenvale

Gardenvale, VIC 3185, sits in Inner South Melbourne and neighbours Brighton, Brighton East, Caulfield South and Elsternwick. Its 10 streets hold 695 properties, 318 of them houses and 377 units.

Census figures are for the Elsternwick area. There the 2021 Census shows 11,904 residents, a median age of 38 and an average household of 2.3 people. Median household income was $2,171 a week, the median mortgage repayment $2,447 a month and the median rent $426 a week. Of 4,986 dwellings, 1,896 were separate houses, 962 semi-detached, 2,073 flats and 45 other; 1,512 were owned outright, 1,388 owned with a mortgage and 1,957 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in Gardenvale

  • 11,904Peoplelive in the area
  • 38Median ageyears
  • $2,171Median household incomea week
  • $426Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses1,896
  • Townhouses and semis962
  • Flats and apartments2,073
  • Other45

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$2,447a month
  • Household size2.3people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 1,512Owned with a mortgage 1,388Rented 1,957Other 129

Properties in Gardenvale

Streets in Gardenvale

  1. Begonia Road66 properties
  2. Elster Avenue18 properties
  3. Gardenia Road113 properties
  4. Gardenvale Road193 properties
  5. Kooyong Road35 properties
  6. Lantana Road98 properties
  7. Lucy Street22 properties
  8. Magnolia Road83 properties
  9. Nepean Highway26 properties
  10. North Road41 properties

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.