Suburb profile

Welshmans Reef VIC 3462

Welshmans Reef is located in the Bendigo region of Victoria, postcode 3462. It has 291 properties across 18 streets. Explore every street in Welshmans Reef, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About Welshmans Reef

Welshmans Reef, VIC 3462, sits in the Bendigo region and neighbours Gower, Maldon, Newstead and Tarrengower. Its 18 streets hold 291 properties, 174 of them houses and 117 units.

Census figures are for the Castlemaine Surrounds area, which had 9,225 residents, a median age of 52 and an average household of 2.2 people. Median household income was $1,317 a week, the median mortgage repayment $1,473 a month and the median rent $280 a week. Of 3,799 dwellings, 3,744 were separate houses, 19 semi-detached, 9 flats and 20 other; 1,913 were owned outright, 1,425 owned with a mortgage and 319 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in Welshmans Reef

  • 9,225Peoplelive in the area
  • 52Median ageyears
  • $1,317Median household incomea week
  • $280Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses3,744
  • Townhouses and semis19
  • Flats and apartments9
  • Other20

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$1,473a month
  • Household size2.2people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 1,913Owned with a mortgage 1,425Rented 319Other 142

Streets in Welshmans Reef

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.