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Torquay

Victoria · Surf Coast - Bellarine Peninsula, Geelong

Live · ABS ERP June 2025

The weekday morning train from Waurn Ponds Railway Station reaches the CBD in 76 min, against 40 min from the middle Victoria area with a timetabled station. Children under 15 are 21.9% of residents, against 17.5% in the middle Victoria area (Census 2021). The median house price in Torquay is $1.21M, about 43% above the middle Victoria area ($842k).

Torquay has 6 schools (4 government, 2 non-government; ACARA School Profile 2025) and 25 NQS-rated childcare services (ACECQA register). Population is 26,581 (ABS ERP June 2025); the AM-peak train journey to the CBD takes 76 min (Transport Victoria (PTV) incl. V/Line, static GTFS, timetable from 22 Oct 2026).

Torquay at a glance

Median house price
$1,207,000
Up 1.0% in a year
Rent: $700 a week, 3-bedroom house
Family-Fit score
71/100
Strong for families
How it is calculated
Schools
6
Area centre zoned to Torquay P-6 College
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Childcare services
25
20 rated Meeting NQS or above
Population
26,581
+0.8% in a year
Median age
40
21.9% are children under 15
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How the Family-Fit score is built71/100

Family-Fit score

Method published in full
71 /100
Strong for families

Strong for families - strongest on childcare & early years, weakest on getting around.

Schools in the area · 20% of the score
99/100

VIC median 75/100

6 schools in this SA2 · average government-school ICSEA 1093

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

VIC median 100/100

25 NQS-rated services nearby

Everyday amenities · 15% of the score
63/100

VIC median 78/100

35 parks · 2 GPs · 0 supermarkets · 20 playgrounds

Getting around · 15% of the score
0/100

VIC median 60/100

76 min to the CBD by train from Waurn Ponds Railway Station

Housing affordability · 15% of the score
58/100

VIC median 46/100

Paying over 30% of income on housing: 11.1% of mortgage-holding households, 27.4% of renting households

Families already here · 10% of the score
89/100

VIC median 67/100

21.9% of residents are children aged 0–14 · 49.8% of families are couples with children

Socio-economic profile · 10% of the score
89/100

VIC median 56/100

SEIFA IRSAD decile 9 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.

How this score is calculated

Each published figure for the Torquay 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 99/100 × 20% → 19.7 points
6 schools in this SA2 · average government-school ICSEA 1093
Childcare & early years 100/100 × 15% → 15 points
25 NQS-rated services nearby
Everyday amenities 63/100 × 15% → 9.4 points
35 parks · 2 GPs · 0 supermarkets · 20 playgrounds
Getting around 0/100 × 15% → 0 points
76 min to the CBD by train from Waurn Ponds Railway Station
Housing affordability 58/100 × 15% → 8.8 points
Paying over 30% of income on housing: 11.1% of mortgage-holding households, 27.4% of renting households
Families already here 89/100 × 10% → 8.9 points
21.9% of residents are children aged 0–14 · 49.8% of families are couples with children
Socio-economic profile 89/100 × 10% → 8.9 points
SEIFA IRSAD decile 9 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 Torquay P-6 College (government, no fees).
  • Recorded incidents are down 6% on the year before.
  • Ranks in the top 20% for socio-economic advantage in VIC (ABS SEIFA - not a safety or school-quality measure).
Good to know
  • Property figures are from Q4 2025, the most recent Valuer-General release we have - prices may have moved since.
Source: Templated from the live data on this page - ABS, ACARA, ACECQA, BOCSAR/CSA Victoria, SEIFA 2021.
Living in Torquay: family snapshot
Family snapshot

Living in Torquay

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A large suburb particularly popular with young families. Many childcare options nearby - 25 NQS-rated services. About a 76-minute train to the CBD. Mostly detached family homes.

Source: ABS population estimates · ABS Census 2021 · ACARA · ACECQA · state transit data (GTFS)
Torquay compared with Victoria10 measures
Torquay compared with the VIC average
Measure Torquay VIC average Against VIC
Children aged 0 to 4 6.7% 5.8% About the same
Children aged 5 to 14 15.2% 12.2% Higher
Couple families with children 49.8% 45.2% Higher
One-parent families 10.3% 15.3% Lower
Homes owned outright 35.7% 32.5% Higher
Homes owned with a mortgage 41.8% 37.8% Higher
Homes rented 20.1% 28.0% Lower
Separate houses 92.3% 75.6% Higher
Flats and apartments 0.6% 10.5% Lower
Born overseas 12.7% 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

Torquay is a locality in the Surf Coast - Bellarine Peninsula area of Victoria. This profile draws on ABS population and Census figures, the ACARA school register and ACECQA childcare ratings for the Torquay SA2.

26,581 residents - 21.9% are children under 15, median age 40.

This profile uses the ABS Torquay 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 Torquay, Mount Duneed, Jan Juc, Bellbrae and Bells Beach, drawn separately on the map above.

Property market

The median house price is $1,207,000, up 1.0% in a year, and a 3-bedroom house rents for a median $700 a week in the Torquay rental area.

Median house price
$1,207,000
Q4 2025
House price, change in a year
+1.0%
Median rent, 3-bedroom house
$700
per week, Torquay rental area

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

Homes and households

Who owns the homes
36% Owned outright 42% Mortgage 20% Rented
Families
50% Couple with children 39% Couple, no children 10% One parent
Types of home
92% House 7% Townhouse 1% 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 Torquay, 27.4% of renting households spend more than 30% of their income on rent, and 11.1% 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
11.1%

VIC avg 15.4%

Share of households WITH a mortgage whose repayments take more than 30% of income. That's 389 of 3,071 households with a stated repayment.

Rent over 30% of income
27.4%

VIC avg 30.9%

Share of RENTING households whose rent takes more than 30% of income. That's 459 of 1,512 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
Torquay · new dwellings approved

What's being built here

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89 new homes were approved in Torquay in the year to June 2025. Councils approved 1,491 new dwellings here across the 6 years to June 2025 - an approval is permission to build, not a home that exists yet.

89

Approved in the year to June 2025

Middle VIC area: 44

1,270

Separate houses

Private sector, over these 6 years

221

Townhouses & apartments

Private sector, over these 6 years

Counts are for the whole Torquay 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.
About the rent figure

Homes Victoria publishes rent for rental areas, not single suburbs. This is the median for the Torquay rental area: 3-bedroom houses with a lease that started in the year ending June 2026.

Source: Homes Victoria (Department of Families, Fairness and Housing), Rental Report, from Residential Tenancies Bond Authority bond lodgements. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Figures are as published; we have not adjusted them.

Schools and childcare

6 schools are located in the area, and the centre of the area is zoned to Torquay P-6 College. 25 childcare services are on the national register, 20 rated Meeting the National Quality Standard or above.

Your zoned school Live VIC + NSW + QLD catchments

Torquay P-6 College

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

Sector Government
Years Prep-6
Students 617
ICSEA 1092
A picture of students’ family backgrounds - not a ranking or a quality score.

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

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Zoned secondary school
Surf Coast Secondary College Government · 7-12 · 879 students
ICSEA 1060 intake context

Median VCE study score (2025): 29 · 97% satisfactory VCE completions - one measure, not a ranking.

Pathways: VCE, VCE VM · 58 VCE/VM/VET studies (Units 3-4)

© Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority; reproduced with permission. For current versions and related content visit http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au

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

Also nearby - Catholic & Independent schools (not your catchment)
Lisieux Catholic Primary School
Catholic 333 students
ICSEA 1106 intake context
St Therese School
Catholic 332 students
ICSEA 1119 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.

All school zones in the Surf Coast council area →

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

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Schools in Torquay

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: 25 services

Exceeding NQS: 4Meeting NQS: 16Working Towards NQS: 2Not yet rated: 3

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 fees25 services
  • Torquay YMCA Early Learning Centre
    Centre-Based Care · 104 places · Torquay
    Rated Sep 2026
    Exceeding NQS
  • Torquay Kindergarten
    Centre-Based Care · 90 places · Torquay
    Rated Dec 2024
    Exceeding NQS
  • Butterfield House Child Care and Kindergarten
    Centre-Based Care · 77 places · Jan Juc
    Rated Oct 2023 · over 3 years old, check for a more recent assessment
    Exceeding NQS
  • Little Groms Early Learning
    Centre-Based Care · 57 places · Torquay
    Rated Dec 2023
    Exceeding NQS
  • Torquay College Outside School Hours Care
    Centre-Based Care · 150 places · Torquay
    Rated Sep 2025
    Meeting NQS
  • Childs Play Torquay
    Centre-Based Care · 141 places · Torquay
    Rated Jul 2024
    Meeting NQS
  • Only About Children Torquay
    Centre-Based Care · 130 places · Torquay
    Rated Jun 2026
    Meeting NQS
  • YMCA Torquay Coast Primary School OSHC
    Centre-Based Care · 120 places · Torquay
    Rated May 2024
    Meeting NQS
  • Busy Bees at Torquay
    Centre-Based Care · 114 places · Torquay
    Rated Jul 2024
    Meeting NQS
  • TeamKids - Mirripoa Primary
    Centre-Based Care · 100 places · Mount Duneed
    Rated Jan 2025
    Meeting NQS
  • All-Star Kids - Torquay
    Centre-Based Care · 100 places · Torquay
    Rated Jul 2025
    Meeting NQS
  • Poa Banyul Kindergarten
    Centre-Based Care · 99 places · Mount Duneed
    Rated Apr 2026
    Meeting NQS

+ 13 more services in this area.

Average subsidised fee - Surf Coast - Bellarine Peninsula area
Centre-based day care
$14.53/hr
Outside school hours care
$11.67/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 Surf Coast - Bellarine Peninsula 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: 12.7% of residents, against 30.0% statewide.

Median age
40
ABS Census 2021
Children under 15
21.9%
Above the VIC average
Born overseas
12.7%
Below the VIC average
Density
210
people per km²

Ages of people here

Torquay 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
+9,562 people
2011: 15,045 2021: 24,607
Median age, 2011 to 2021
+3 years
2011: 37 2021: 40
Children aged 0 to 14, 2011 to 2021
−1.4 points
2011: 23.3% 2021: 21.9%
Born overseas, 2011 to 2021
+0.3 points
2011: 12.4% 2021: 12.7%
Speak another language at home, 2011 to 2021
+0.9 points
2011: 3.9% 2021: 4.8%
Surf Coast council area, official forecast
+10,390 people
2021: 37,620 2036: 48,010

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 Torquay, counted on today's boundaries.

Since 2011, Torquay has grown older.

People counted
+9,562 people since 2011

Usual residents counted on Census night.

Median age
+3 years since 2011

Half the residents are older than this, half younger.

Children aged 0–14
−1.4 pts since 2011

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

Born overseas
+0.3 pts since 2011

Share of all residents born outside Australia.

Speak another language at home
+0.9 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
Surf Coast 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 Surf Coast council area, which contains Torquay along with its neighbouring suburbs, to grow to 48,010 people by 2036: 10,390 more people than the 37,620 counted in 2021.

This is the council area, not Torquay. Surf Coast 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+0.80% in a year
Population
26,581
ABS estimate, June 2025
Growth in one year
+0.80%
2024 to 2025
Net change
+213
people in a year

Where did the gain come from?

+213
Natural increase
Births minus deaths
+86
Internal migration
Net movers from elsewhere in Australia
+5
Overseas migration
Net arrivals from overseas
+122

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

Growth vs benchmarks
Torquay
+0.80%
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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15.2% of people here are school-age children (5–14) - more than the Victoria average of 12.2%, and 6.7% are under 5. The median age is 40.

0–4 years · before school
6.7%

VIC avg 5.8%

5–14 years · school age
15.2%

VIC avg 12.2%

15–19 years · teens
5.6%

VIC avg 5.6%

20–34 years
14.2%

VIC avg 21.3%

35–54 years
30.1%

VIC avg 26.8%

55–64 years
11.3%

VIC avg 11.5%

65 years and over
17%

VIC avg 16.8%

Share of all residents of Torquay (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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60% of families here have children living at home - about the Victoria average of 61%. The largest overseas-born communities are United Kingdom (4.5%), New Zealand (1.4%) and South Africa (0.7%). 20% 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
49.8%

VIC avg 45.2%

One-parent family
10.3%

VIC avg 15.3%

Couple, no children
39.1%

VIC avg 37.8%

What people live in

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

Separate house
92.3%

VIC avg 75.6%

Semi-detached / townhouse
7%

VIC avg 13.5%

Flat or apartment
0.6%

VIC avg 10.5%

Owned or rented

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

Owned outright
35.7%

VIC avg 32.5%

Owned with a mortgage
41.8%

VIC avg 37.8%

Rented
20.1%

VIC avg 28%

Figures describe Torquay (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 Torquay

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Top 5 overseas birthplaces shown · 92.4% born in Australia or a country not in the top five.

United Kingdom · established by 2016
4.5%

VIC avg 3%

New Zealand · established by 2016
1.4%

VIC avg 1.2%

South Africa · established by 2016
0.7%

VIC avg 0.1%

Germany · established by 2016
0.5%

VIC avg 0.1%

Netherlands · established by 2016
0.5%

VIC avg 0.1%

Nearby
Charlemont, Barwon Heads - Armstrong Creek and Grovedale - Mount Duneed also have an established United Kingdom community.
Settlement pattern
Of overseas-born residents who stated when they arrived, 11.4% arrived in the last 5 years (2016–2021) (VIC avg 17.5%) and 50.5% 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, 6.7% 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 Torquay (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 9 of 10
Decile (1 lowest, 10 highest)
Decile 9 of 10
Where this sits in VIC
top 20% 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

The morning-peak train from Waurn Ponds Railway Station reaches the city in 76 minutes, and the nearest emergency department is St John of God Geelong Hospital, 19.8 km away in a straight line.

None mapped
Supermarkets
Middle VIC area: 1
2
GPs
Middle VIC area: 0
35
Parks
Middle VIC area: 22
20
Playgrounds
Middle VIC area: 10
None mapped
Train stations
Middle VIC area: 0
1
Libraries
Middle VIC area: 0

Mapped inside the Torquay 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

Timetable published

76 min from Waurn Ponds Railway Station

Median scheduled weekday morning-peak travel time to the central-city terminus, from the closest station to the middle of this area (11.7 km away in a straight line). Train leg only.

Nearest emergency department

Mapped

St John of God Geelong Hospital · 19.8 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
4
Places of worship
Middle VIC area: 1
1
Community centres
Middle VIC area: 0
None mapped
Swimming pools
Middle VIC area: 0
4
Sport and fitness venues
Middle VIC area: 1
Out with a baby
4
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 Torquay 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) · Transport Victoria (PTV) incl. V/Line, static GTFS, timetable from 22 Oct 2026

Crime & safety in Torquay

Police recorded 507 incidents in Torquay in the year ending June 2026, down 6% on the year before. This is a raw count, not a rate or a rating.

Recorded incidents, 2026
507
Change on the year before
-6%
540 in 2025
Recorded incidents, 2021
501
LGA rate, as published
2,547.1
per 100,000 people, Surf Coast council area

LGA rate, as published: 1,038 recorded incidents and 2,547.1 per 100,000 people across the whole Surf Coast council area, which is larger than Torquay. The rate is the agency's own figure - we do not calculate rates. Source: Crime Statistics Agency Victoria, year ending June 2026, released September 2026.

Largest offence categories

Property and deception offences 297
Crimes against the person 112
Justice procedures offences 67
Public order and security offences 17
Drug offences 13
Is Torquay safe? Here's what police recorded

Police recorded 507 criminal incidents in Torquay in the year ending June 2026 (Crime Statistics Agency Victoria, released September 2026). Surf Coast council area, which includes Torquay, had 2,547.1 recorded incidents per 100,000 people (LGA rate, as published: Crime Statistics Agency Victoria, year ending June 2026, released September 2026). Counts are often higher where many people visit (shopping centres, stations, nightlife), not only where many people live. SuburbRadar does not rate suburbs as safe or unsafe.

How much crime is recorded in Torquay?

507 incidents in the year ending June 2026, against 540 the year before. The largest offence categories were Property and deception offences (297), Crimes against the person (112), Justice procedures offences (67). These are raw counts as published, not adjusted for population. Source: Crime Statistics Agency Victoria, released September 2026. Counts are often higher where many people visit (shopping centres, stations, nightlife), not only where many people live. SuburbRadar does not rate suburbs as safe or unsafe.

Police-recorded incident counts (Years ending June; latest = year ending June 2026). Raw counts, not a rate, and not a judgement about the suburb. Counts are often higher where many people visit (shopping centres, stations, nightlife), not only where many people live. SuburbRadar does not rate suburbs as safe or unsafe. Source: Crime Statistics Agency Victoria, released September 2026. More on crime & safety →

Crime Statistics Agency Victoria data, licensed under CC BY 3.0 AU. Suburb totals are added up from published figures.

Risks

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

Flooding

In an official overlay

3.2% of the area

Bushfire

In an official overlay

32.9% of the area

Heritage controls

In an official overlay

1.0% of the area

Traffic noise

Main roads only

Surf Coast Highway · Great Ocean Road · Anglesea Road · +17 more

Land contamination checks

In an official overlay

0.4% of the area

Acid sulfate soils

Mapped as likely

1.7% of the area

Each line is the extent of an official record across the whole Torquay 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

3.2% 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

32.9% 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

1.0% 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

Main roads only

Surf Coast Highway · Great Ocean Road · Anglesea Road · +17 more

No freeway or highway is mapped inside this area. 20 named main roads (arterial or connector) run through it. Roads are counted by name, not by mapped segment.

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

0.4% 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

Mapped as likely

1.7% of the area

Part of this area is mapped by the state as land where coastal acid sulfate soils are likely to occur. Acid sulfate soils are harmless while they stay wet and buried; digging into them - for a pool, footings, a basement or drainage - exposes them to air and produces acid that eats concrete and steel and can kill fish downstream, so excavation may need a management plan. This is soil mapping rather than a planning overlay, and it describes the ground, not the house standing on it.

Recorded crime

Official counts published

507 incidents

Police-recorded criminal incidents in Years ending June; latest = year ending June 2026, down 6% on the prior year. A count, not a rate - busier areas with more shops, stations and visitors record more incidents than quiet ones of the same size. Full breakdown ↑

Social housing

Census figure

0.0% rented from a state or territory housing authority · 0.0% 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 Torquay 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 · Crime Statistics Agency Victoria, released September 2026 · 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.

Torquay · 5 gazetted suburbs

The suburbs in this area

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Everything else on this page is published for Torquay as a whole - one ABS statistical area covering 5 separate gazetted suburbs. These are the figures published for each of those suburbs on its own.

Gazetted suburbs inside Torquay, with each suburb's own published figures.
Suburb Residents
Census 2021
Schools Median
house price
Torquay 18,534 5 $1.21M
Mount Duneed 6,182 2 $720k
Jan Juc 4,151 0 $1.5M
Bellbrae 1,346 1 none published
Bells Beach 151 0 none published

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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