Suburb profile

Princes Hill VIC 3054

Princes Hill is located in the Inner Melbourne region of Victoria, postcode 3054. It has 1,143 properties across 19 streets, mostly houses. Explore every street in Princes Hill, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About Princes Hill

Princes Hill, VIC 3054, sits in Inner Melbourne and neighbours Brunswick, Brunswick East and Carlton North. Its 19 streets hold 1,143 properties, 790 of them houses and 353 units.

Census figures are for the Carlton North - Princes Hill area, which covers 0.999 of the suburb. It had 8,186 residents, a median age of 34 and an average household of 2.3 people. Median household income was $2,355 a week, the median mortgage repayment $2,600 a month and the median rent $541 a week. Of 3,461 dwellings, 279 were separate houses, 2,352 semi-detached, 788 flats and 45 other; 1,030 were owned outright, 647 owned with a mortgage and 1,664 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in Princes Hill

  • 8,186Peoplelive in the area
  • 34Median ageyears
  • $2,355Median household incomea week
  • $541Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses279
  • Townhouses and semis2,352
  • Flats and apartments788
  • Other45

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$2,600a month
  • Household size2.3people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 1,030Owned with a mortgage 647Rented 1,664Other 120

Schools in Princes Hill

  • Princes Hill Secondary College

    GovernmentSecondary

Streets in Princes Hill

Neighbouring suburbs

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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.

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Area summaries are generated from the national address file and ABS Census data, and checked against those figures before publication.