Suburb profile
South Wharf VIC 3006
South Wharf is located in the Inner Melbourne region of Victoria, postcode 3006. It has 346 properties across 6 streets, mostly units. Explore every street in South Wharf, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.
About South Wharf
South Wharf, VIC 3006, sits in Inner Melbourne and neighbours Docklands, Melbourne and Southbank. Its 6 streets hold 346 properties: 56 houses and 290 units.
Census figures are for the Southbank (West) - South Wharf area, which covers South Wharf almost entirely. The area had 6,463 residents, a median age of 33 and an average household of 1.8 people. Median household income was $2,054 a week, the median mortgage repayment $2,000 a month and the median rent $430 a week. Of 3,309 dwellings, 3,299 were flats and 3 were other types; 521 were owned outright, 631 owned with a mortgage and 2,069 rented.
Updated October 2026
Who lives in South Wharf
- 6,463Peoplelive in the area
- 33Median ageyears
- $2,054Median household incomea week
- $430Median renta week
Homes by type
- Flats and apartments3,299
- Other3
Household
- Median mortgage repayment$2,000a month
- Household size1.8people on average
How homes are held
Streets in South Wharf
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.