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Buloke

Victoria · Murray River - Swan Hill, North West

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The median age is 52, higher than the middle Victoria area (39, Census 2021). The median house price in Buloke is $320k, about 62% below the middle Victoria area ($842k). Children under 15 are 15.1% of residents, against 17.5% in the middle Victoria area (Census 2021).

Buloke has 9 schools (6 government, 3 non-government; ACARA School Profile 2025) and 6 NQS-rated childcare services (ACECQA register). Population is 5,891 (ABS ERP June 2025).

Buloke at a glance

Median house price
$320,000
Up 16.4% in a year
Family-Fit score
69/100
Strong for families
How it is calculated
Schools
9
Area centre zoned to Wycheproof P-12 College
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Childcare services
6
4 rated Meeting NQS or above
Population
5,891
-0.6% in a year
Median age
52
15.1% are children under 15
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Boundaries: ABS Suburbs & Localities 2021. School pins are ACARA's published locations. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors, © CARTO. Open the full VIC map →

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How the Family-Fit score is built69/100

Family-Fit score

Method published in full
69 /100
Strong for families

Strong for families - strongest on everyday amenities, weakest on socio-economic profile.

Schools in the area · 20% of the score
76/100

VIC median 75/100

9 schools in this SA2 · average government-school ICSEA 979

Childcare & early years · 15% of the score
60/100

VIC median 100/100

6 NQS-rated services nearby

Everyday amenities · 15% of the score
100/100

VIC median 78/100

25 parks · no GP mapped (not counted) · 5 supermarkets · 13 playgrounds

Housing affordability · 15% of the score
87/100

VIC median 46/100

Paying over 30% of income on housing: 9.0% of mortgage-holding households, 14.2% of renting households

Families already here · 10% of the score
41/100

VIC median 67/100

15.1% of residents are children aged 0–14 · 34.3% of families are couples with children

Socio-economic profile · 10% of the score
22/100

VIC median 56/100

SEIFA IRSAD decile 3 of 10 nationally

The grey marker on each bar is the median across the 500 Victoria areas we publish a score for (state median overall: 65/100). It is context, not a pass mark.

Not scored here (no published data for this area, so it is left out rather than counted as zero): Getting around. The remaining inputs were rescaled to 100.

How this score is calculated

Each published figure for the Buloke SA2 is mapped onto 0–100 by fixed thresholds, then weighted. Inputs with no data here are dropped and the rest rescaled - never scored as zero. Every threshold and weight →

Schools in the area 76/100 × 20% → 17.8 points
9 schools in this SA2 · average government-school ICSEA 979
Childcare & early years 60/100 × 15% → 10.6 points
6 NQS-rated services nearby
Everyday amenities 100/100 × 15% → 17.6 points
25 parks · no GP mapped (not counted) · 5 supermarkets · 13 playgrounds
Getting around no data here - not counted
No train-time data for VIC yet, and no station mapped inside this SA2 - not counted either way
Housing affordability 87/100 × 15% → 15.3 points
Paying over 30% of income on housing: 9.0% of mortgage-holding households, 14.2% of renting households
Families already here 41/100 × 10% → 4.8 points
15.1% of residents are children aged 0–14 · 34.3% of families are couples with children
Socio-economic profile 22/100 × 10% → 2.6 points
SEIFA IRSAD decile 3 of 10 nationally

School results, crime and flood or bushfire overlays are not graded into this score. Limits of the score →

What families notice
In their own terms

What families notice

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Families often notice
  • This address is zoned to Wycheproof P-12 College (government, no fees).
  • 25 parks mapped inside this SA2 (OpenStreetMap).
  • 9 schools sit inside this SA2 - more choice than most areas this size.
Good to know
  • We don't yet have official crime data for VIC (only NSW and VIC) - that's a data gap on our side, not a claim this area is safe.
  • Property figures are from Q4 2025, the most recent Valuer-General release we have - prices may have moved since.
  • This area's SEIFA index is lower than most of VIC - a relative socio-economic measure, not a safety or quality rating.
Source: Templated from the live data on this page - ABS, ACARA, ACECQA, BOCSAR/CSA Victoria, SEIFA 2021.
Living in Buloke: family snapshot
Family snapshot

Living in Buloke

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A smaller suburb. Many childcare options nearby - 6 NQS-rated services. Mostly detached family homes.

Source: ABS population estimates · ABS Census 2021 · ACARA · ACECQA
Buloke compared with Victoria10 measures
Buloke compared with the VIC average
Measure Buloke VIC average Against VIC
Children aged 0 to 4 4.7% 5.8% Lower
Children aged 5 to 14 10.4% 12.2% Lower
Couple families with children 34.3% 45.2% Lower
One-parent families 12.0% 15.3% Lower
Homes owned outright 58.1% 32.5% Higher
Homes owned with a mortgage 22.1% 37.8% Lower
Homes rented 15.7% 28.0% Lower
Separate houses 94.1% 75.6% Higher
Flats and apartments 1.7% 10.5% Lower
Born overseas 6.5% 30.0% Lower

Source: ABS Census 2021. The VIC figure is the population-weighted average of the 520 VIC areas with a published value. "Higher" and "Lower" describe the number only.

About this area and its boundary

Buloke is a locality in the Murray River - Swan Hill area of Victoria. This profile draws on ABS population and Census figures, the ACARA school register and ACECQA childcare ratings for the Buloke SA2.

5,891 residents - 15.1% are children under 15, median age 52.

This profile uses the ABS Buloke statistical area (SA2) - the level Australian government data is published at. SA2 boundaries don’t always match suburb boundaries. It covers the gazetted suburbs of Donald, Charlton, Birchip, Sea Lake, Wycheproof, Berriwillock, Watchem and Nullawil and 70 more localities, drawn separately on the map above.

Property market

The median house price is $320,000, up 16.4% in a year.

Median house price
$320,000
Q4 2025
House price, change in a year
+16.4%
Median rent, 3-bedroom house
Not published

Source: Valuer-General VIC Q4 2025 · Homes Victoria (DFFH) Rental Report, year ending Jun 2026

Homes and households

Who owns the homes
58% Owned outright 22% Mortgage 16% Rented
Families
34% Couple with children 52% Couple, no children 12% One parent
Types of home
94% House 3% Townhouse 2% Apartment

Source: ABS Census 2021. Where the shares do not add to 100%, the rest is "other" or "not stated".

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Housing cost pressuremortgage and rent against income
What households here actually pay

Housing cost pressure

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In Buloke, 14.2% of renting households spend more than 30% of their income on rent, and 9% of households with a mortgage spend more than 30% on repayments - the ABS's stretched-household threshold (Census 2021).

ABS published figures, not our calculation.

Mortgage over 30% of income
9%

VIC avg 15.4%

Share of households WITH a mortgage whose repayments take more than 30% of income. That's 49 of 478 households with a stated repayment.

Rent over 30% of income
14.2%

VIC avg 30.9%

Share of RENTING households whose rent takes more than 30% of income. That's 55 of 342 households with a stated rent.

The two figures cover different households (mortgage-holding vs renting), so never add them. How the ABS counts these → Grey marker: VIC average (509 for mortgage and 508 for rent). Census 2021 - housing costs have moved since. Not financial advice.

Source: ABS Census 2021 - Mortgage & Rent Affordability Indicator Datasets (via ABS Data by Region, SA2)
What's being built herenew homes approved, year by year
Buloke · new dwellings approved

What's being built here

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13 new homes were approved in Buloke in the year to June 2025. Councils approved 80 new dwellings here across the 6 years to June 2025 - an approval is permission to build, not a home that exists yet.

13

Approved in the year to June 2025

Middle VIC area: 44

75

Separate houses

Private sector, over these 6 years

5

Townhouses & apartments

Private sector, over these 6 years

Counts are for the whole Buloke statistical area. What these counts include → Dashed line: the median of 491Victoria areas.

Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Data by region, 2011-2025 (cat. 1410.0), sourced from ABS Building Approvals, Australia (cat. 8731.0) (source, CC BY 4.0). Each year is a year ended 30 June, published for the SA2, not the suburb.

Schools and childcare

9 schools are located in the area, and the centre of the area is zoned to Wycheproof P-12 College. 6 childcare services are on the national register, 4 rated Meeting the National Quality Standard or above.

Your zoned school Live VIC + NSW + QLD catchments

Wycheproof P-12 College

The government school your child can attend for free by living in Buloke.

Sector Government
Years Prep-12
Students 90
ICSEA 992
A picture of students’ family backgrounds - not a ranking or a quality score.

This is the zoned government school for the centre of Buloke (VIC catchment data) - addresses elsewhere in the suburb may be zoned to a different school.

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Zoned secondary school
Wycheproof P-12 College Government · Prep-12 · 90 students
ICSEA 992 intake context

Median VCE study score (2025): 29 · 100% satisfactory VCE completions - one measure, not a ranking.

Pathways: VCE, VCE VM · 16 VCE/VM/VET studies (Units 3-4)

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The government Year 7 zone for the centre of Buloke (VIC catchment data) - addresses elsewhere in the suburb may be zoned to a different school.

Also nearby - Catholic & Independent schools (not your catchment)
St Mary's School
Catholic 39 students
ICSEA 993 intake context
St Joseph's School
Catholic 38 students
ICSEA 1009 intake context
St Mary's School
Catholic 28 students
ICSEA 1001 intake context

Fee-paying schools can’t be enrolled in by zone - they’re shown for context, not as the area’s school quality.

We show school intake context, catchments and, for Victorian government secondary schools, the VCE figures the VCAA publishes. We don’t publish a school ranking.

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To look beyond Buloke, every Victoria school is on the Australian schools and catchment zones map.

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Schools in Buloke

ICSEA reflects student intake context, not teaching quality (1000 = national average). Source: ACARA School Profile 2025. All VIC schools →

Victorian Senior Secondary Completion and Achievement data source: Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (VCAA).

The VCAA is not associated with SuburbRadar and does not endorse any of the views or recommendations of SuburbRadar. The VCAA's assessment data for a given year cannot be used to predict results for schools or students in subsequent years. Each year's assessment results will vary due to different assessments being used and different populations of students participating in the assessment.

Childcare: 6 services

Meeting NQS: 4Working Towards NQS: 1Not yet rated: 1

National Quality Standard ratings from the ACECQA register, refreshed Oct 2026. Services are matched by suburb name.

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Childcare services, ratings and fees6 services
  • Donald Children's Centre
    Centre-Based Care · 60 places · Donald
    Rated Aug 2026
    Meeting NQS
  • Sea Lake Early Learning Centre
    Centre-Based Care · 39 places · Sea Lake
    Rated Apr 2025
    Meeting NQS
  • Shine Bright Charlton Early Years Centre
    Centre-Based Care · 34 places · Charlton
    Rated Nov 2024
    Meeting NQS
  • Wycheproof Preschool Play Centre
    Centre-Based Care · 34 places · Wycheproof
    Rated Nov 2023 · over 3 years old, check for a more recent assessment
    Meeting NQS
  • Birchip Early Learning Centre
    Centre-Based Care · 50 places · Birchip
    Rated Nov 2025
    Working Towards NQS
  • Tyrrell College OSHC
    Centre-Based Care · 15 places · Sea Lake
    Not yet rated
Average subsidised fee - Murray River - Swan Hill area
Centre-based day care
$13.76/hr
Outside school hours care
$9.91/hr

Mean hourly fee across CCS-approved services, December quarter 2025 - Dept of Education, © Commonwealth of Australia, CC BY 4.0. Published at SA3 level (a wider area than this suburb's SA2), so it's an average across Murray River - Swan Hill and surrounds, not this specific service list.

Verify locations before visiting. A rating over 3 years old is flagged. What the NQS ratings mean → Childcare places per child, by suburb →

Who lives here

Fewer people born overseas than Victoria overall: 6.5% of residents, against 30.0% statewide.

Median age
52
ABS Census 2021
Children under 15
15.1%
Below the VIC average
Born overseas
6.5%
Below the VIC average
Density
1
people per km²

Ages of people here

Buloke VIC average

Share of residents in each age band, in years. Source: ABS Census 2021.

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How the area is changingCensus 2011 to 2021
People counted at the Census, 2011 to 2021
−204 people
2011: 6,388 2021: 6,184
Median age, 2011 to 2021
+4 years
2011: 48 2021: 52
Children aged 0 to 14, 2011 to 2021
−3.2 points
2011: 18.3% 2021: 15.1%
Born overseas, 2011 to 2021
+0.8 points
2011: 5.7% 2021: 6.5%
Speak another language at home, 2011 to 2021
+1.2 points
2011: 2.4% 2021: 3.6%
Buloke council area, official forecast
−410 people
2021: 6,130 2036: 5,720

Each line is drawn on its own scale, so compare the numbers, not the heights. Source: ABS Census 2011, 2016 and 2021; Victoria in Future 2023, Victorian Department of Transport and Planning forecast, published for the council area, not the suburb.

Census trends against the middle VIC areafull charts
Three censuses, same boundaries

Which way this area is moving

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The 2011, 2016 and 2021 Censuses for Buloke, counted on today's boundaries.

Since 2011, Buloke has grown older, with a smaller share of children.

People counted
−204 people since 2011

Usual residents counted on Census night.

Median age
+4 years since 2011

Half the residents are older than this, half younger.

Children aged 0–14
−3.2 pts since 2011

Share of all residents. The clearest signal of families arriving or moving on.

Born overseas
+0.8 pts since 2011

Share of all residents born outside Australia.

Speak another language at home
+1.2 pts since 2011

Share of residents who stated a language, speaking one other than English at home.

The dashed line is the median across the Victoria areas we profile. How the three Censuses line up →

Source: ABS Census Time Series Profile 2021 (2011, 2016 and 2021 Censuses, SA2)
How many people will live around hereofficial forecast
Buloke council area · official projection

How many people will live around here

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The rest of this page looks backwards. This is the one number that looks forward - and it is the state government's own, not ours. Victoria in Future 2023 (Vic. Dept of Transport and Planning) projects the Buloke council area, which contains Buloke along with its neighbouring suburbs, to shrink to 5,720 people by 2036: 410 fewer people than the 6,130 counted in 2021.

This is the council area, not Buloke. Buloke is a whole local government area covering many suburbs, and neither state publishes a projection for a single suburb. Growth is never spread evenly across a council - a greenfield estate and an established street inside the same council will move very differently - so read this as the direction of the wider area a suburb sits in, not as a forecast for its own streets. Only the years the publisher itself lists are plotted: nothing is filled in between them, and nothing is carried past 2036. A projection is an assumption about the future, not a measurement of it, and it will be revised - this one was released September 2023. These figures sit on the projection's own series, so they are not directly comparable with the ABS resident-population and Census counts elsewhere on this page, which use different geographies and different years.

Source: Victoria in Future 2023, Victorian Department of Transport and Planning, released September 2023 (source, CC BY 4.0). Published for the council area, not the suburb; figures rounded to the nearest 10.
Where this year's population change came from-0.60% in a year
Population
5,891
ABS estimate, June 2025
Growth in one year
-0.60%
2024 to 2025
Net change
-34
people in a year

Where did the loss come from?

-34
Natural increase
Births minus deaths
-24
Internal migration
Net movers from elsewhere in Australia
-23
Overseas migration
Net arrivals from overseas
+13

Reading the streams: overseas arrivals were the dominant force - more came from abroad than the suburb grew on its own.

Growth vs benchmarks
Buloke
-0.60%
VIC median
+0.90%
National median
+0.80%
Ages against the state average, band by band
The neighbourhood, in people

Ages of people here

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10.4% of people here are school-age children (5–14) - fewer than the Victoria average of 12.2%, and 4.7% are under 5. The median age is 52.

0–4 years · before school
4.7%

VIC avg 5.8%

5–14 years · school age
10.4%

VIC avg 12.2%

15–19 years · teens
5.3%

VIC avg 5.6%

20–34 years
12.9%

VIC avg 21.3%

35–54 years
21%

VIC avg 26.8%

55–64 years
17%

VIC avg 11.5%

65 years and over
28.8%

VIC avg 16.8%

Share of all residents of Buloke (ABS Statistical Area 2) at the 2021 Census; the grey marker is the Victoria average. How the bands and averages work →

Source: ABS Census 2021, General Community Profile (SA2)
Households and families
The neighbourhood, in people

Households and families

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46% of families here have children living at home - fewer than the Victoria average of 61%. The largest overseas-born communities are United Kingdom (1.8%), New Zealand (0.8%) and Philippines (0.7%). 16% of homes are rented.

Family make-up

Share of all families in the area. A small "other family" group the ABS also counts is not shown.

Couple with children
34.3%

VIC avg 45.2%

One-parent family
12%

VIC avg 15.3%

Couple, no children
51.5%

VIC avg 37.8%

What people live in

Share of occupied private dwellings. Other and unstated structures are not shown.

Separate house
94.1%

VIC avg 75.6%

Semi-detached / townhouse
3.1%

VIC avg 13.5%

Flat or apartment
1.7%

VIC avg 10.5%

Owned or rented

Share of occupied private dwellings. Other and unstated tenures are not shown.

Owned outright
58.1%

VIC avg 32.5%

Owned with a mortgage
22.1%

VIC avg 37.8%

Rented
15.7%

VIC avg 28%

Figures describe Buloke (ABS Statistical Area 2) at the 2021 Census; the grey marker is the Victoria average. How these are counted →

Source: ABS Census 2021, General Community Profile (SA2)
Birthplaces, languages and communities
The neighbourhood, in people

Who lives in Buloke

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Top 5 overseas birthplaces shown · 95.9% born in Australia or a country not in the top five.

United Kingdom · established by 2016
1.8%

VIC avg 3%

New Zealand · established by 2016
0.8%

VIC avg 1.2%

Philippines · established by 2016
0.7%

VIC avg 0.6%

India · established by 2016
0.5%

VIC avg 3.9%

South Africa · growing since 2016
0.3%

VIC avg 0.1%

Nearby
Loddon, Stawell and Maryborough Surrounds also have an established United Kingdom community.
Settlement pattern
Of overseas-born residents who stated when they arrived, 25.6% arrived in the last 5 years (2016–2021) (VIC avg 17.5%) and 53.1% arrived before 2001 (VIC avg 47.4%).
English at home
Of residents who speak a language other than English at home and stated their English proficiency, 9.4% report speaking English “not well” or “not at all” (VIC avg 14.1%) - a self-reported ABS figure across all languages combined, not a judgement of any one community.

Figures describe Buloke (ABS Statistical Area 2) at the 2021 Census. The ABS publishes only the five largest communities per area, so a missing name did not rank in the top five. How these are counted →

Source: ABS Census 2021, General Community Profile (SA2)
Socio-economic index (SEIFA)decile 3 of 10
Decile (1 lowest, 10 highest)
Decile 3 of 10
Where this sits in VIC
bottom 30% of Victoria areas

A relative comparison of the whole area against all of Australia - not a safety, liveability, or school-quality measure. What IRSAD measures → Source: ABS SEIFA 2021, IRSAD index (SA2).

Getting around and lifestyle

5 supermarkets and 25 parks are mapped in the area, and the nearest emergency department is East Wimmera Health Service (Birchip Campus), 11.4 km away in a straight line.

5
Supermarkets
Middle VIC area: 1
None mapped
GPs
Middle VIC area: 0
25
Parks
Middle VIC area: 22
13
Playgrounds
Middle VIC area: 10
None mapped
Train stations
Middle VIC area: 0
None mapped
Libraries
Middle VIC area: 0

Mapped inside the Buloke boundary. A zero can mean "not mapped" rather than "not there". Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors.

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Train to the city and nearest emergency department

Train to the city

Not published

No station within reach of the middle of this area appears in the Victoria timetable feed, so we show no train travel time. Buses are not covered anywhere on this site.

Nearest emergency department

Mapped

East Wimmera Health Service (Birchip Campus) · 11.4 km

Straight-line distance from the middle of this area - not a drive time. In an emergency call 000; do not plan around this figure.

Community and recreation
2
Places of worship
Middle VIC area: 1
3
Community centres
Middle VIC area: 0
2
Swimming pools
Middle VIC area: 0
10
Sport and fitness venues
Middle VIC area: 1
Out with a baby
9
Baby-change tables
None mapped
Baby-care rooms

Public-toilet facilities recorded on the National Public Toilet Map - not every place in the area that will let you change a baby.

About this data

Counts of features tagged in OpenStreetMap inside the Buloke boundary. “Middle VIC area”: the median of 518 Victoria areas. How these counts and times are made →

Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors · baby-facility counts from the National Public Toilet Map (Continence Foundation of Australia, funded by the Australian Government Department of Health, Disability and Ageing, CC BY 3.0 AU)

Crime & safety in Buloke

We don't have an official incident count matched to this specific area yet - that's a data gap on our side, not a claim that Buloke is safe. SuburbRadar does not rate suburbs as safe or unsafe. More on crime & safety →

Risks

5 of the 7 planning and hazard records we hold show something in this area: flooding, bushfire, heritage controls, traffic noise and land contamination checks.

Flooding

In an official overlay

12.4% of the area

Bushfire

In an official overlay

0.9% of the area

Heritage controls

In an official overlay

0.2% of the area

Traffic noise

Freeway or highway present

Calder Highway · High Street · Railway Avenue · +7 more

Land contamination checks

In an official overlay

A small part of the area

Each line is the extent of an official record across the whole Buloke area - not a risk rating, and a specific address may or may not be affected. Not financial or insurance advice.

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All 9 checks and what each one means

Flooding

In an official overlay

12.4% of the area

Part of this area sits inside a Victorian planning-scheme flood overlay - Land Subject to Inundation, Floodway, or Special Building (overland stormwater). Whether a specific address is affected depends on the property.

Bushfire

In an official overlay

0.9% of the area

Part of this area sits inside the Victorian Bushfire Management Overlay, which triggers extra planning requirements on affected land. The area is also inside the state’s designated Bushfire Prone Area - a separate and much wider designation that makes bushfire construction standards apply to a new home or extension.

Heritage controls

In an official overlay

0.2% of the area

Part of this area sits inside the Victorian Heritage Overlay, so changes to buildings there - extensions, demolition, sometimes even paint colours - need planning approval. It applies property by property: most homes in an area with an overlay are not in it, and being in one is a protection as much as a restriction.

Traffic noise

Freeway or highway present

Calder Highway · High Street · Railway Avenue · +7 more

10 named roads through this area carry OpenStreetMap's highest classification - a freeway, motorway or major highway, whatever the road is called locally, alongside 38 named main roads. Roads are counted by name, not by mapped segment. Where a home sits relative to them matters far more than the count - a street two blocks back can be quiet.

Aircraft noise

Not in the overlay

No Victorian Airport Environs Overlay (including the Melbourne Airport one) intersects this area. The overlays cover land close to an airport under a mapped noise contour - aircraft still fly over areas outside them, including on flight paths.

Land contamination checks

In an official overlay

A small part of the area

Part of this area sits inside the Victorian Environmental Audit Overlay - land where a past use such as a service station, dry cleaner, factory or landfill means an environmental audit must be completed before it can be used for housing, childcare or a school. It flags land that must be checked, not land found to be contaminated, and it applies parcel by parcel.

Acid sulfate soils

None mapped

Victoria's coastal acid sulfate soil mapping covers coastal and estuarine land only, and none is mapped in this area. These soils form in low-lying coastal sediments, so away from the coast and the estuaries there is nothing to map - read this as outside the mapped zone rather than as a soil test.

Recorded crime

Not published

No suburb-level incident record matched this area in the published statistics.

Social housing

Census figure

1.8% rented from a state or territory housing authority · 0.4% from a community housing provider

Share of occupied private dwellings here with a stated tenure (Census 2021). The middle VIC area is 1.0% public and 0.3% community, across 513 areas. Listed because families ask; it is a fact about who owns the homes, not a judgement about the people in them.

About this data

Every line is an official published record for the Buloke area - we don't rate, score or rank any of them. Where a line is missing, treat it as not checked rather than clear. What each line covers and does not →

Source: Vicmap Planning, © The State of Victoria, Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action - CC BY 4.0 · Designated Bushfire Prone Area, © State of Victoria, Department of Transport and Planning - CC BY 4.0 · ABS Census 2021 (G37 tenure and landlord type) · © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) - road classification

Nearby suburbs

The six closest profiled areas in Victoria, by distance between area centres.

Buloke · 78 gazetted suburbs

The suburbs in this area

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Everything else on this page is published for Buloke as a whole - one ABS statistical area covering 78 separate gazetted suburbs. These are the figures published for each of the 75 the ABS publishes a profile for.

Gazetted suburbs inside Buloke, with each suburb's own published figures.
Suburb Residents
Census 2021
Schools Median
house price
Donald 1,472 3 $345k
Charlton 1,095 2 $320k
Birchip 694 1 $176k
Sea Lake 619 2 $300k
Wycheproof 610 1 none published
Berriwillock 180 0 none published
Watchem 124 0 none published
Nullawil 92 0 none published

3 smaller localities are also inside this area. The ABS publishes no separate census profile for them, so they have no row here.

Each row is that suburb's own published figure - nothing here is the wider area's number divided up. Resident counts are the Census 2021 usual-resident count for the gazetted suburb, so they will not add up to the population at the top of this page, which is the ABS's later June 2025 estimate for the whole statistical area: a different measure on a different date. Schools are ACARA-registered schools whose published address falls inside the suburb boundary, which is not the same as the school your address is zoned to. Median house prices are the Valuer-General's figure for the suburb itself, over its most recent reporting period; a suburb with too few sales to publish shows a dash. Every other figure on this page - crime & safety, overlays, commute, amenities, projections, the Family-Fit score - is published for the whole statistical area and cannot be separated by suburb.

Source: ABS Census of Population and Housing 2021, General Community Profile for Suburbs and Localities; ABS ASGS Edition 3 suburb boundaries; ACARA School Location 2025; Valuer-General Victoria median house prices.

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