Suburb profile

Long Forest VIC 3340

Long Forest is located in the Western Melbourne region of Victoria, postcode 3340. It has 124 properties across 14 streets, almost all houses. Explore every street in Long Forest, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About Long Forest

Long Forest, VIC 3340, sits in Western Melbourne and neighbours Harkness, Hopetoun Park, Merrimu and Toolern Vale. Its 14 streets hold 124 properties, all of them houses.

Census figures are for the Bacchus Marsh area, which covers the whole suburb. It had 24,717 residents, a median age of 37 and an average household of 2.7 people. Median household income was $1,807 a week, the median mortgage repayment $1,733 a month and the median rent $340 a week. Of 8,888 dwellings, 8,012 were separate houses, 754 semi-detached, 74 flats and 38 other; 2,524 were owned outright, 4,246 owned with a mortgage and 1,837 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in Long Forest

  • 24,717Peoplelive in the area
  • 37Median ageyears
  • $1,807Median household incomea week
  • $340Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses8,012
  • Townhouses and semis754
  • Flats and apartments74
  • Other38

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$1,733a month
  • Household size2.7people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 2,524Owned with a mortgage 4,246Rented 1,837Other 281

Streets in Long Forest

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.