Suburb profile

The Basin VIC 3154

The Basin is located in the Outer East Melbourne region of Victoria, postcode 3154. It has 2,006 properties across 66 streets, mostly houses. Explore every street in The Basin, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About The Basin

The Basin, VIC 3154, sits in Outer East Melbourne and neighbours Montrose, Boronia, Ferny Creek and Kilsyth. Its 66 streets hold 2,006 properties, 1,788 of them houses and 218 units.

At the census The Basin had 4,345 residents, a median age of 39 and an average household of 2.7 people. Median household income was $2,049 a week, the median mortgage repayment $1,950 a month and the median rent $366 a week. Of 1,512 dwellings, 1,458 were separate houses, 47 semi-detached, 3 flats and 4 other; 551 were owned outright, 797 owned with a mortgage and 146 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in The Basin

  • 4,345Peoplelive in the area
  • 39Median ageyears
  • $2,049Median household incomea week
  • $366Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses1,458
  • Townhouses and semis47
  • Flats and apartments3
  • Other4

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$1,950a month
  • Household size2.7people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 551Owned with a mortgage 797Rented 146Other 18

Schools in The Basin

  • Fernbrook School

    IndependentPrimary and secondary

  • St Bernadette's Catholic Primary School

    CatholicPrimary

  • The Basin Primary School

    GovernmentPrimary

Streets in The Basin

A

  1. Academy Drive34 properties
  2. Arcadia Avenue106 properties
  3. Aster Street6 properties
  4. Augusta Road55 properties

B

  1. Basin Court17 properties
  2. Basin-Olinda Road41 properties
  3. Bayview Crescent76 properties
  4. Bowen Avenue20 properties

C

  1. Camelia Crescent34 properties
  2. Carnarvon Avenue30 properties
  3. Christopher Avenue15 properties
  4. Church Street7 properties
  5. Claremont Avenue69 properties
  6. Cleve Avenue15 properties
  7. Clevedon Road4 properties
  8. Conyers Street51 properties
  9. Crest Court16 properties

D

  1. Democrat Drive90 properties
  2. Dobson Lane14 properties
  3. Doongalla Road25 properties
  4. Dorrigo Drive4 properties

F

  1. Fern Street14 properties
  2. Festival Place10 properties
  3. Forest Road116 properties
  4. Frances Street5 properties

G

  1. Golden Grove18 properties
  2. Goodwin Street30 properties
  3. Government Road60 properties
  4. Gravenstein Crescent32 properties

H

  1. Harrison Street9 properties

I

  1. Inverness Avenue82 properties

L

  1. Liverpool Road4 properties
  2. Locksley Place24 properties
  3. Lorna Court14 properties
  4. Lyndon Road1 property
  5. Lyric Court7 properties

M

  1. Mercia Avenue82 properties
  2. Milleara Street13 properties
  3. Miller Road75 properties
  4. Mount View Road71 properties
  5. Mountain Highway165 properties

N

  1. Norman Street16 properties

O

  1. Old Coach Road6 properties
  2. Old Forest Road63 properties

P

  1. Pavitt Lane1 property
  2. Pippin Court9 properties

R

  1. Rome Beauty Avenue23 properties
  2. Ross Avenue14 properties
  3. Rowan Avenue6 properties

S

  1. Sheffield Road7 properties
  2. Simpsons Road12 properties
  3. Snow Court10 properties
  4. St Ives Court7 properties
  5. Stanley Street20 properties
  6. Stuart Street57 properties
  7. Suzanne Court10 properties

T

  1. Thornton Court13 properties
  2. Toorak Avenue34 properties

V

  1. Verbena Avenue35 properties
  2. View Road18 properties

W

  1. Walker Street16 properties
  2. Waratah Avenue39 properties
  3. Wicks Road8 properties
  4. Winby Court13 properties
  5. Wright Street1 property

Y

  1. Yates Court7 properties

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.

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.