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ABS 2021 Census · Updated 21 May 2026
Melbourne Airport is a well-established middle-ring suburb of Melbourne, Australia, with a population of approximately 64, making it a boutique locality. Located approximately 19 km from the Melbourne CBD, Melbourne Airport is a middle ring area in Victoria. The median household income is $61,000 per year.
Melbourne Airport's income profile suggests a value-oriented market with competitive purchase prices.
Official Australia Post postcode for Melbourne Airport. A postcode may cover multiple suburbs.
Australia Post Postcode Finder →Usual resident population at the most recent census.
Weekly median rent for occupied homes. Live rental data integration coming soon.
Annual median household income (before tax) across all households.
Straight-line distance from the suburb centroid to the nearest capital city CBD. Actual driving distance will be longer.
Estimated 1 school within or near this suburb.
Find schools near Melbourne Airport on My School →Estimated 1 park and green spaces near this suburb.
Monthly median mortgage repayment for households currently paying off a mortgage.
Proportion of separate houses versus units, townhouses, and other home types. Useful for investors assessing rental demand mix.
Melbourne Airport is a smaller community of 64 — about 1% of the Victoria suburb median (7,416) — so investors should factor in the narrower buyer pool and longer average time-on-market. Melbourne Airport's median household income of $61,000/year is 36% below the Victoria suburb median ($95,160) — this is an affordability play where returns lean on yield and patient capital growth rather than demographic premium. 19 km from Melbourne places Melbourne Airport in the middle commuter belt, close enough for daily trips by car or rail but at a materially lower price point than inner suburbs.
How Melbourne Airport stacks up against the median of all Victoria suburbs in our dataset. Positive values mean Melbourne Airport sits above the state median; negative means below.
| Metric | Melbourne Airport | VIC median | Δ vs state |
|---|---|---|---|
| Population | 64 | 7,416 | -99% |
| Median household income | $61,000/yr | $95,160/yr | -36% |
| Median mortgage (monthly) | $1,700 | $1,950 | -13% |
| Distance to CBD | 19 km | 32 km | -41% |
Pre-inspection briefing for Melbourne Airport — every item is derived from public datasets, with full citations in our data sources page.
Limited buy-and-hold upside: a small population of 64 means liquidity is thin and capital growth tends to lag the wider Victoria market over full cycles.
Median rental data was not captured for Melbourne Airport. Use current realestate.com.au and Domain listings to triangulate a realistic weekly rent before committing, then feed that number into our rental yield calculator.
With a population of 64, the resale market in Melbourne Airport may not reliably reward cosmetic renovations — a longer hold is typically a better strategy at this scale, letting land-value appreciation do the work instead.
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Create free account →Capital-growth expectations for Melbourne Airport are modest for 2026 — incomes 36% below the VIC median of $95,160 and a population of 64 suggest gains will lag headline metro markets. Rental fundamentals will need to be verified against live listings, as a clean median rent was not recorded for Melbourne Airport. The EquitySight investment score of 45/100 places Melbourne Airport in the mid tier of Australian suburbs we profile, and overall investor sentiment is cautious heading into the second half of 2026.
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Melbourne Airport scores 45/100 on our EquitySight investment framework — a moderate rating. That score is driven by a population of 64, median household income of $61,000/year. Whether it fits your portfolio depends on whether you are targeting cash flow, capital growth, or a value-add renovation — all three are scored with suburb-specific numbers elsewhere on this page.
The main demand drivers in Melbourne Airport are proximity to Melbourne (19 km), a median household income of $61,000/year, roughly 1 schools and 1 parks within the catchment. Together these shape both owner-occupier and tenant demand and are the factors we weight most heavily in the suburb's investment score.
Melbourne Airport has a usual resident population of approximately 64, compared with a Victoria suburb median of 7,416 — placing it in the lower half of the state's suburbs by size. Population is the clearest proxy for market depth: more residents mean more transactions and typically a shorter average days-on-market on resale.
Melbourne Airport sits 19 km straight-line from the Melbourne CBD. This is comfortable commuter territory, with reasonable rail and road access to the city.
A reliable median rent was not captured for Melbourne Airport. Benchmark expected weekly rent on realestate.com.au and Domain, or the state rental tribunal's rent dashboard. Most Australian investors target a 4–5% gross yield as a baseline.
The median monthly mortgage repayment in Melbourne Airport is $1,700, or approximately $20,400/year (vs $1,950/month state median). Stress-test your own borrowing at rates 1–2 percentage points above today's to make sure you can still service the loan through an RBA tightening cycle.
Census data was not complete enough in Melbourne Airport to compute a clean rent-to-mortgage coverage. Use current listings to benchmark weekly rent, then plug your expected purchase price into our rental yield calculator to see whether the investment runs cash-flow positive or negative.
The main risks are a thin buyer pool (64 residents), interest-rate sensitivity on the $1,700 median mortgage, below-median household incomes ($61,000 vs $95,160 state median), the broader Victoria market cycle. Each of these is covered in the Risk Factors section above with suburb-specific numbers rather than generic warnings.
Every number on this page comes from the ABS 2021 Census of Population and Housing, Australia Post postcode reference data, and OpenStreetMap amenity tiles. The investment score, strategy verdicts, and comparison table are computed deterministically from those inputs — no opinion, no estimation. See our full methodology and the data sources and licences for the formulas we use.