Suburb profile

West Melbourne VIC 3003

West Melbourne is located in the Inner Melbourne region of Victoria, postcode 3003. It has 10,087 properties across 63 streets, mostly units. Explore every street in West Melbourne, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About West Melbourne

West Melbourne, VIC 3003, sits in Inner Melbourne and neighbours Docklands, Kensington, Melbourne and North Melbourne. Its 63 streets hold 10,087 properties, 2,024 of them houses and 8,063 units.

Census figures are for West Melbourne - Residential, which covers most of the suburb. It had 7,446 residents, a median age of 31 and an average household of 1.9 people. Median household income was $1,784 a week, the median mortgage repayment $2,135 a month and the median rent $390 a week. Of 3,542 dwellings, 2,754 were flats, 715 semi-detached, 45 separate houses and 21 other; 2,296 were rented, 724 owned with a mortgage and 427 owned outright.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in West Melbourne

  • 7,446Peoplelive in the area
  • 31Median ageyears
  • $1,784Median household incomea week
  • $390Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses45
  • Townhouses and semis715
  • Flats and apartments2,754
  • Other21

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$2,135a month
  • Household size1.9people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 427Owned with a mortgage 724Rented 2,296Other 95

Properties in West Melbourne

Schools in West Melbourne

  • Simonds Catholic College

    CatholicSecondary

Local agents in West Melbourne

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Agencies that specialise in West Melbourne

Streets in West Melbourne

A

  1. Abbotsford Street57 properties
  2. Adderley Street429 properties
  3. Anderson Street115 properties
  4. Appleton Dock Road5 properties
  5. Austin Place4 properties

B

  1. Batman Street1,167 properties
  2. Boughton Place3 properties
  3. Browns Hill Place7 properties

C

  1. Capel Street63 properties
  2. Chetwynd Street136 properties
  3. Coode Road19 properties
  4. Curzon Street61 properties

D

  1. Dahlenburg Street3 properties
  2. Dicks Place13 properties
  3. Docklands Drive1 property
  4. Dryburgh Street260 properties
  5. Dudley Street1,356 properties
  6. Dynon Road78 properties

E

  1. Eades Place20 properties
  2. Enterprize Road3 properties

F

  1. Flagstaff Lane18 properties
  2. Footscray Road241 properties
  3. Franklin Place9 properties

H

  1. Harbison Lane3 properties
  2. Hawke Street360 properties
  3. Howard Street48 properties

I

  1. Ireland Street532 properties

J

  1. Jeffcott Street759 properties
  2. Jones Place3 properties

K

  1. Kensington Road39 properties
  2. King Street152 properties

L

  1. La Trobe Street72 properties
  2. Laurens Street8 properties
  3. Lennon Street15 properties
  4. Lloyd Street18 properties
  5. Lothian Street2 properties

M

  1. Mackenzie Road10 properties
  2. Madden Lane2 properties
  3. Mansion House Lane13 properties
  4. Mcdougall Lane2 properties
  5. Mckendrick Lane1 property
  6. Miller Place3 properties
  7. Miller Street83 properties
  8. Milton Street22 properties
  9. Mullaly Close3 properties

P

  1. Peel Street86 properties
  2. Phillipps Road2 properties
  3. Phoenix Lane2 properties
  4. Prout Lane6 properties

R

  1. Radcliffe Street8 properties
  2. Railway Place44 properties
  3. Roden Street507 properties
  4. Rosslyn Street480 properties

S

  1. Silk Place7 properties
  2. Sims Street60 properties
  3. Spencer Street1,517 properties
  4. Stanley Street451 properties
  5. Stawell Street87 properties

T

  1. Tait Lane3 properties

V

  1. Victoria Street209 properties

W

  1. Walsh Street57 properties
  2. William Street70 properties
  3. Wominjeka Walk273 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.