Suburb profile
Watsonia VIC 3087
Watsonia is located in the North East Melbourne region of Victoria, postcode 3087. It has 2,849 properties across 84 streets, mostly houses. Explore every street in Watsonia, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.
About Watsonia
Watsonia, VIC 3087, sits in North East Melbourne and neighbours Bundoora, Greensborough, Macleod and Watsonia North. Its 84 streets hold 2,849 properties, 2,184 of them houses and 665 units.
At the 2021 Census Watsonia had 9,236 residents, a median age of 39 and an average household of 2.6 people. Median household income was $1,961 a week, the median mortgage repayment $2,037 a month and the median rent $390 a week. Of 3,506 dwellings, 3,191 were separate houses, 294 semi-detached and 22 flats; 1,324 were owned outright, 1,320 owned with a mortgage and 799 rented.
Updated October 2026
Who lives in Watsonia
- 9,236Peoplelive in the area
- 39Median ageyears
- $1,961Median household incomea week
- $390Median renta week
Homes by type
- Houses3,191
- Townhouses and semis294
- Flats and apartments22
Household
- Median mortgage repayment$2,037a month
- Household size2.6people on average
How homes are held
Schools in Watsonia
Watsonia Primary School
GovernmentPrimary
Loyola College
CatholicSecondary
Concord School-Concord Junior Campus
GovernmentSpecial
Agencies that specialise in Watsonia
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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.
