Suburb profile

West Bendigo VIC 3550

West Bendigo is located in the Bendigo region of Victoria, postcode 3550. It has 268 properties across 21 streets, almost all houses. Explore every street in West Bendigo, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About West Bendigo

West Bendigo, VIC 3550, sits in the Bendigo region and neighbours Golden Square, Ironbark, Long Gully and Maiden Gully. Its 21 streets hold 268 properties, 244 of them houses and 24 units.

Census figures are for the Bendigo statistical area, not West Bendigo alone. The area had 14,929 residents, a median age of 39 and an average household of 2.1 people. Median household income was $1,267 a week, the median mortgage repayment $1,300 a month and the median rent $280 a week. Of 6,229 dwellings, 5,376 were separate houses, 691 semi-detached, 131 flats and 15 other; 1,796 were owned outright, 1,552 owned with a mortgage and 2,722 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in West Bendigo

  • 14,929Peoplelive in the area
  • 39Median ageyears
  • $1,267Median household incomea week
  • $280Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses5,376
  • Townhouses and semis691
  • Flats and apartments131
  • Other15

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$1,300a month
  • Household size2.1people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 1,796Owned with a mortgage 1,552Rented 2,722Other 159

Streets in West Bendigo

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.