Suburb profile
South Melbourne VIC 3205
South Melbourne is located in the Inner Melbourne region of Victoria, postcode 3205. It has 15,919 properties across 128 streets, mostly units. Explore every street in South Melbourne, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.
About South Melbourne
South Melbourne, VIC 3205, sits in Inner Melbourne and neighbours Docklands, Albert Park, Melbourne and Port Melbourne. Its 128 streets hold 15,919 properties, 4,908 of them houses and 11,011 units.
At the 2021 Census South Melbourne had 11,693 residents, a median age of 39 and an average household of 1.9 people. Median household income was $2,103 a week, the median mortgage repayment $2,217 a month and the median rent $421 a week. Of 5,642 dwellings, 259 were separate houses, 1,947 semi-detached and 3,383 flats, with 43 other; 1,137 were owned outright, 1,274 owned with a mortgage and 3,064 rented.
Updated October 2026
Who lives in South Melbourne
- 11,693Peoplelive in the area
- 39Median ageyears
- $2,103Median household incomea week
- $421Median renta week
Homes by type
- Houses259
- Townhouses and semis1,947
- Flats and apartments3,383
- Other43
Household
- Median mortgage repayment$2,217a month
- Household size1.9people on average
How homes are held
Properties in South Melbourne
Schools in South Melbourne
Galilee Regional Catholic Primary School
CatholicPrimary
Youth2Industry College
IndependentSecondary
Hester Hornbrook Academy - South Melbourne
IndependentSpecial
Montague School
GovernmentSpecial
Agencies that specialise in South Melbourne
Streets in South Melbourne
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- Carlisle Street1 property
- Cecil Place13 properties
- Cecil Street268 properties
- Charles Street9 properties
- Church Street49 properties
- City Road123 properties
- Clarendon Place11 properties
- Clarendon Street429 properties
- Clarke Street7 properties
- Cobden Street127 properties
- Coote Street18 properties
- Coventry Place16 properties
- Coventry Street428 properties
- Craine Street6 properties
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- Law Street14 properties
- Layfield Street35 properties
- Little Boundary Street14 properties
- Little Glover Street3 properties
- Little Iffla Street7 properties
- Little Lyell Street3 properties
- Little Moray Place3 properties
- Little Mountain Street12 properties
- Little Tribe Street17 properties
- Lyell Street34 properties
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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.
School details © Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), from the Australian Schools List, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International and modified. ACARA does not endorse Listd.
Area summaries are generated from the national address file and ABS Census data, and checked against those figures before publication.

