Capel Sound is a suburb in Mornington Peninsula, Victoria (postcode 3940), located in the Mornington Peninsula region. At the ABS Census 2021 it had a population of 5,246 people.

At a glance

Population (2021)

5,246

Median age

Household income

$950/wk

Weekly rent

$350

Unemployment

4.8%

SEIFA IRSD decile

2 / 10

Age distribution

0-4

3.6%

5-14

8.9%

15-19

3.5%

20-24

3.3%

25-34

8.9%

35-44

8.3%

45-54

9.6%

55-64

10.4%

65-74

15.2%

75-84

15.6%

85+

12.7%

Housing tenure

Owned

36.1%

Mortgage

19.7%

Rented

27.2%

Other

13.5%

Key statistics

Indicator	Value
Postcode	3940
Population (2021)	5,246
Males	2,419 (46.1%)
Females	2,824 (53.8%)
Median age	59 years
Average household size	1.9
Median weekly household income	$950
Median weekly family income	$1,316
Median weekly rent	$350
Median monthly mortgage	$1,603
Labour force	1,712
Unemployment rate	4.8%
Participation rate	41.1%
Born overseas	17.5%
Separate houses	45.8%
Worked at home	12.1%
SEIFA IRSD decile	2 of 10
Bachelor degree or higher	28.0%
Completed Year 12 or equivalent	40.3%
Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander residents	1.9%
Residents needing assistance with core activities	14.0%
Households with 2+ vehicles	39.7%
Distance from Melbourne CBD	62.4 km (straight line)

Age profile

Median age: 59 years. Residents under 15: 12.4%. Residents aged 65 and over: 43.4%.

Age group	People	Share of population
0-4	188	3.6%
5-14	465	8.9%
15-19	184	3.5%
20-24	175	3.3%
25-34	469	8.9%
35-44	436	8.3%
45-54	504	9.6%
55-64	545	10.4%
65-74	797	15.2%
75-84	817	15.6%
85 and over	665	12.7%

Households and families

Household type	Count	Share of households
Total households	2,341
Average household size	1.9
One person	1,010	43.1%
Two persons	850	36.3%
Three persons	222	9.5%
Four persons	170	7.3%
Five persons	66	2.8%
Six or more persons	25	1.1%

Family type	Count	Share of families
Total families	1,297
Couples with children	20	1.5%
Couples without children	667	51.4%
One-parent families	292	22.5%
Other families	20	1.5%

Children ever born

Measure	Value
Average children per woman aged 15+	1.94
Women with no children	23.1%
Women with three or more children	34.0%

Of the 317 couple families with children in Capel Sound, 14.8% are step or blended families.

Marital status

Marital status of residents aged 15 and over in Capel Sound.

Status	Share of adults
Married (registered marriage)	39.2%
Married (de facto)	11.2%
Not married	49.7%

Housing

Dwellings	Count	Share of dwellings
Total dwellings	3,612
Occupied	2,341	64.8%
Unoccupied	1,272	35.2%

Dwelling structure	Count	Share of dwellings
Separate house	1,656	45.8%
Semi-detached or townhouse	561	15.5%
Flat or apartment	80	2.2%
Other dwelling	36	1.0%

Tenure	Count	Share of households
Owned outright	844	36.1%
Owned with a mortgage	461	19.7%
Rented	636	27.2%
Other tenure	316	13.5%

Weekly rent

Rent band	Share of renting households
Under $350 per week	50.1%
$350 to $549 per week	46.5%
$550 or more per week	3.4%

3.5% of renting households rent through a state or community housing provider.

Monthly mortgage repayments

Repayment band	Share of mortgaged households
Under $1,000	19.3%
$1,000 to $1,799	42.4%
$1,800 to $2,999	31.8%
$3,000 or more	6.5%

Bedrooms per dwelling

Bedrooms	Share of dwellings
None or one bedroom	3.6%
Two bedrooms	34.4%
Three bedrooms	49.4%
Four or more bedrooms	12.6%

Employment

Labour force status	Count	Share
Labour force	1,712
Employed	1,626	95.0%
Unemployed	82	4.8%
Not in the labour force	2,454
Unemployment rate	4.8%
Participation rate	41.1%

45.6% of employed residents work part time, fewer than 35 hours per week.

Household income

Household incomes in Capel Sound are distributed across the following weekly bands.

Weekly household income	Share of households
Under $650	30.5%
$650 to $1,499	42.0%
$1,500 to $2,999	20.6%
$3,000 or more	6.8%

For residents aged 15 and over, personal weekly income is distributed as follows.

Weekly personal income	Share of residents 15+
Under $500	45.1%
$500 to $999	31.1%
$1,000 to $1,999	19.2%
$2,000 or more	4.7%

Travel to work

Method	Count	Share of workers
Car driver	996	61.3%
Car passenger	72	4.4%
Train	0	0.0%
Bus	3	0.2%
Tram	0	0.0%
Bicycle	9	0.6%
Walked only	29	1.8%
Worked at home	196	12.1%

Religious affiliation

Religion	Count	Share of residents
Christianity	2,371	45.2%
No religion	2,258	43.0%
Islam	9	0.2%
Hinduism	13	0.2%
Buddhism	44	0.8%
Judaism	4	0.1%
Other or not stated	547	10.4%

Socio-economic profile (SEIFA 2021)

SEIFA deciles run from 1 (most disadvantaged) to 10 (least disadvantaged) nationally.

Index	Score	Decile	Percentile
IRSD (disadvantage)	942	2	17
IRSAD (advantage and disadvantage)	911	2
IER (economic resources)	932	2
IEO (education and occupation)	914	2

Where residents were born

80.7% of residents were born in Australia and 19.3% were born overseas. The most common overseas birthplaces in Capel Sound are listed below.

Country of birth	People	Share of residents
England	307	6.4%
Italy	82	1.7%
New Zealand	48	1.0%
Scotland	47	1.0%
Netherlands	39	0.8%
Greece	34	0.7%

When overseas-born residents arrived

Year of arrival	Share of overseas-born residents
2016 to 2021	1.1%
2011 to 2015	6.6%
2001 to 2010	12.1%
Before 2001	80.2%

Languages spoken at home

92.3% of residents speak only English at home. The most common other languages in Capel Sound are listed below. Across all households, 0.8% of residents speak English not well or not at all.

Language	People	Share of residents
Italian	103	2.1%
Greek	49	1.0%
Malayalam	26	0.5%
Spanish	16	0.3%
Chinese: Mandarin	16	0.3%
Croatian	15	0.3%

Ancestry

Residents of Capel Sound most commonly report the following ancestries.

Ancestry	Responses	Share of responses
English	2,273	34.2%
Australian	1,938	29.2%
Scottish	578	8.7%
Irish	524	7.9%
Italian	294	4.4%
German	144	2.2%

Work and industry

The largest employment sectors for Capel Sound residents are listed below.

Industry of employment	Workers	Share of workers
Health Care and Social Assistance	294	19.0%
Construction	212	13.7%
Retail Trade	200	13.0%
Accommodation and Food Services	149	9.7%
Education and Training	107	6.9%
Manufacturing	83	5.4%

The most common occupations among Capel Sound residents are listed below.

Occupation	Workers	Share of workers
Technicians and Trades Workers	313	19.8%
Community and Personal Service Workers	239	15.1%
Labourers	223	14.1%
Professionals	218	13.8%
Managers	172	10.9%
Sales Workers	164	10.4%

Education

Of residents attending an education institution in Capel Sound, 6.9% are at university or higher education, 12.9% are at TAFE or vocational education, and 77.1% are at school.

40.3% of residents aged 15 and over have completed Year 12 or equivalent.

The most common fields of study among Capel Sound residents with qualifications are listed below.

Field of study	People	Share
Management and Commerce	321	16.6%
Engineering and Related Technologies	312	16.1%
Society and Culture	280	14.5%
Health	253	13.1%
Education	220	11.4%
Architecture and Building	181	9.3%

Long-term health conditions

31.7% of residents report no long-term health condition. The most commonly reported conditions in Capel Sound are listed below.

Health condition	People	Share of residents
Arthritis	994	14.1%
Mental health condition (including depression or anxiety)	739	10.5%
Heart disease (including heart attack or angina)	537	7.6%
Asthma	502	7.1%
Diabetes (excluding gestational diabetes)	350	5.0%
Cancer (including remission)	344	4.9%
Dementia (including Alzheimer's)	225	3.2%
Lung condition (including COPD or emphysema)	224	3.2%
Stroke	175	2.5%
Kidney disease	121	1.7%

25.8% of residents report one condition, 12.3% report two, and 10.8% report three or more.

Community and care

How residents of Capel Sound contribute to their community (share of residents aged 15 and over).

Community activity	Share
Volunteers for an organisation or group	12.4%
Provides unpaid assistance to a person with a disability or health condition	12.9%
Provides unpaid child care	35.3%
Does 15 or more hours of unpaid domestic work	20.8%
Has served or is serving in the Australian Defence Force	4.6%

Moving and stability

Mobility	Share of residents
Same address 1 year ago	86.8%
Moved within Victoria in the last year	8.4%
Moved interstate in the last year	0.6%
Moved from overseas in the last year	0.1%
Same address 5 years ago	56.6%
Moved within Victoria in the last 5 years	27.3%
Moved interstate in the last 5 years	1.8%
Moved from overseas in the last 5 years	1.4%

Photo: Capel Sound, Victoria. Credit: Tangerineduel / CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons.

Crime and safety

Victoria Police recorded 425 offences in Capel Sound in the 12 months to March 2026.

Offence division	Recorded offences
A Crimes against the person	77
B Property and deception offences	152
C Drug offences	35
D Public order and security offences	84
E Justice procedures offences	76
F Other offences	1

That is a calculated rate of 81.0 recorded offences per 1,000 residents, based on the ABS Census 2021 population. This rate was calculated by My Victoria AU and is not a Crime Statistics Agency figure.

For context, the Mornington Peninsula local government area recorded 6,718 offences per 100,000 residents in the same period. That figure is the official Crime Statistics Agency rate for the LGA.

Five-year trend

2022
358

2023
452

2024
381

2025
418

2026
425

Recorded offences count crimes reported to Victoria Police in this locality, not crimes committed by or against its residents. Areas with shopping centres, transport hubs, hospitals or entertainment precincts record more offences regardless of how safe they are for people who live there. Counts are revised as investigations progress.

Source: Crime Statistics Agency Victoria, Data tables - Recorded offences, Year ending March 2026. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Rates per 1,000 residents are calculations by My Victoria AU using ABS Census 2021 population and are not CSA figures. View the source dataset.

Location

Nearby suburbs

Tootgarook (2.1 km)
Rosebud (3.1 km)
Boneo (5.0 km)
McCrae (5.4 km)
Rye (5.6 km)

Browse more suburbs in Mornington Peninsula, or explore the wider Mornington Peninsula region of Victoria.

Data disclaimer: The statistics on this page are sourced from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), Census of Population and Housing 2021 and SEIFA 2021 (ASGS Edition 3), and are used under the ABS CC BY 4.0 licence. This directory is an independent community resource and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the ABS.

Capel Sound

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At a glance

Age distribution

Housing tenure

Key statistics

Age profile

Households and families

Children ever born

Marital status

Housing

Weekly rent

Monthly mortgage repayments

Bedrooms per dwelling

Employment

Household income

Travel to work

Religious affiliation

Socio-economic profile (SEIFA 2021)

Where residents were born

When overseas-born residents arrived

Languages spoken at home

Ancestry

Work and industry

Education

Long-term health conditions

Community and care

Moving and stability

Crime and safety

Five-year trend

Location

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