Suburb profile
Mount Best VIC 3960
Mount Best is located in the Gippsland region of Victoria, postcode 3960. It has 60 properties across 9 streets, almost all houses. Explore every street in Mount Best, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.
About Mount Best
Mount Best, VIC 3960, sits in the Gippsland region and neighbours Gunyah, Boolarong, Toora North and Wonga. Its 9 streets hold 60 properties, all of them houses.
Census figures are for the Foster area. It had 9,446 residents, a median age of 54 and an average household of 2.1 people. Median household income was $1,110 a week, the median mortgage repayment $1,300 a month and the median rent $250 a week. Of 3,906 dwellings, 3,732 were separate houses, 52 semi-detached and 78 flats, with 38 other; 2,075 were owned outright, 1,064 owned with a mortgage and 550 rented.
Updated October 2026
Who lives in Mount Best
- 9,446Peoplelive in the area
- 54Median ageyears
- $1,110Median household incomea week
- $250Median renta week
Homes by type
- Houses3,732
- Townhouses and semis52
- Flats and apartments78
- Other38
Household
- Median mortgage repayment$1,300a month
- Household size2.1people on average
How homes are held
Streets in Mount Best
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.