Mont Albert North is a suburb in Whitehorse, Victoria (postcode 3129), located in the Greater Melbourne region. At the ABS Census 2021 it had a population of 5,609 people.

At a glance

Population (2021)

5,609

Median age

Household income

$2,184/wk

Weekly rent

$500

Unemployment

4.2%

SEIFA IRSD decile

10 / 10

Age distribution

0-4

4.5%

5-14

13.6%

15-19

7.0%

20-24

6.1%

25-34

8.7%

35-44

13.0%

45-54

14.8%

55-64

12.9%

65-74

10.7%

75-84

6.0%

85+

2.8%

Housing tenure

Owned

42.8%

Mortgage

35.8%

Rented

19.4%

Other

1.1%

Key statistics

Indicator	Value
Postcode	3129
Population (2021)	5,609
Males	2,644 (47.1%)
Females	2,959 (52.8%)
Median age	43 years
Average household size	2.7
Median weekly household income	$2,184
Median weekly family income	$2,677
Median weekly rent	$500
Median monthly mortgage	$2,817
Labour force	2,877
Unemployment rate	4.2%
Participation rate	64.1%
Born overseas	34.4%
Separate houses	58.1%
Worked at home	38.1%
SEIFA IRSD decile	10 of 10
Bachelor degree or higher	71.1%
Completed Year 12 or equivalent	81.8%
Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander residents	0.3%
Residents needing assistance with core activities	4.3%
Households with 2+ vehicles	59.3%
Distance from Melbourne CBD	13.0 km (straight line)

Age profile

Median age: 43 years. Residents under 15: 18.1%. Residents aged 65 and over: 19.5%.

Age group	People	Share of population
0-4	252	4.5%
5-14	762	13.6%
15-19	392	7.0%
20-24	343	6.1%
25-34	488	8.7%
35-44	728	13.0%
45-54	831	14.8%
55-64	721	12.9%
65-74	599	10.7%
75-84	339	6.0%
85 and over	157	2.8%

Households and families

Household type	Count	Share of households
Total households	2,068
Average household size	2.7
One person	456	22.1%
Two persons	640	30.9%
Three persons	362	17.5%
Four persons	440	21.3%
Five persons	134	6.5%
Six or more persons	35	1.7%

Family type	Count	Share of families
Total families	1,599
Couples with children	91	5.7%
Couples without children	543	34.0%
One-parent families	228	14.3%
Other families	24	1.5%

Children ever born

Measure	Value
Average children per woman aged 15+	1.47
Women with no children	32.3%
Women with three or more children	19.2%

Of the 806 couple families with children in Mont Albert North, 4.8% are step or blended families.

Marital status

Marital status of residents aged 15 and over in Mont Albert North.

Status	Share of adults
Married (registered marriage)	54.4%
Married (de facto)	6.1%
Not married	39.5%

Housing

Dwellings	Count	Share of dwellings
Total dwellings	2,255
Occupied	2,068	91.7%
Unoccupied	185	8.2%

Dwelling structure	Count	Share of dwellings
Separate house	1,310	58.1%
Semi-detached or townhouse	750	33.3%
Flat or apartment	4	0.2%
Other dwelling	0	0.0%

Tenure	Count	Share of households
Owned outright	885	42.8%
Owned with a mortgage	740	35.8%
Rented	402	19.4%
Other tenure	23	1.1%

Weekly rent

Rent band	Share of renting households
Under $350 per week	12.9%
$350 to $549 per week	47.8%
$550 or more per week	39.4%

0.8% of renting households rent through a state or community housing provider.

Monthly mortgage repayments

Repayment band	Share of mortgaged households
Under $1,000	16.6%
$1,000 to $1,799	14.2%
$1,800 to $2,999	21.2%
$3,000 or more	48.0%

Bedrooms per dwelling

Bedrooms	Share of dwellings
None or one bedroom	0.8%
Two bedrooms	14.6%
Three bedrooms	46.6%
Four or more bedrooms	38.1%

Employment

Labour force status	Count	Share
Labour force	2,877
Employed	2,753	95.7%
Unemployed	122	4.2%
Not in the labour force	1,614
Unemployment rate	4.2%
Participation rate	64.1%

39.7% of employed residents work part time, fewer than 35 hours per week.

Household income

Household incomes in Mont Albert North are distributed across the following weekly bands.

Weekly household income	Share of households
Under $650	13.6%
$650 to $1,499	23.3%
$1,500 to $2,999	26.0%
$3,000 or more	37.1%

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

Weekly personal income	Share of residents 15+
Under $500	33.4%
$500 to $999	20.0%
$1,000 to $1,999	25.1%
$2,000 or more	21.6%

Travel to work

Method	Count	Share of workers
Car driver	1,117	40.6%
Car passenger	77	2.8%
Train	32	1.2%
Bus	33	1.2%
Tram	4	0.1%
Bicycle	17	0.6%
Walked only	31	1.1%
Worked at home	1,049	38.1%

Religious affiliation

Religion	Count	Share of residents
Christianity	2,311	41.2%
No religion	2,551	45.5%
Islam	81	1.4%
Hinduism	98	1.7%
Buddhism	256	4.6%
Judaism	17	0.3%
Other or not stated	295	5.3%

Socio-economic profile (SEIFA 2021)

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

Index	Score	Decile	Percentile
IRSD (disadvantage)	1082	10	91
IRSAD (advantage and disadvantage)	1116	10
IER (economic resources)	1064	8
IEO (education and occupation)	1136	10

Where residents were born

65.0% of residents were born in Australia and 35.0% were born overseas. The most common overseas birthplaces in Mont Albert North are listed below.

Country of birth	People	Share of residents
China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)	615	11.2%
Malaysia	191	3.5%
England	123	2.2%
India	93	1.7%
Hong Kong (SAR of China)	92	1.7%
New Zealand	85	1.6%

When overseas-born residents arrived

Year of arrival	Share of overseas-born residents
2016 to 2021	16.3%
2011 to 2015	13.1%
2001 to 2010	24.4%
Before 2001	46.2%

Languages spoken at home

66.5% of residents speak only English at home. The most common other languages in Mont Albert North are listed below. Across all households, 5.9% of residents speak English not well or not at all.

Language	People	Share of residents
Chinese: Mandarin	797	14.6%
Chinese: Cantonese	336	6.1%
Greek	108	2.0%
Italian	45	0.8%
Persian (excluding Dari)	40	0.7%
Indo-Aryan: Sinhalese	37	0.7%

Ancestry

Residents of Mont Albert North most commonly report the following ancestries.

Ancestry	Responses	Share of responses
English	1,547	20.6%
Chinese	1,380	18.4%
Australian	1,331	17.7%
Irish	572	7.6%
Scottish	536	7.1%
Italian	317	4.2%

Work and industry

The largest employment sectors for Mont Albert North residents are listed below.

Industry of employment	Workers	Share of workers
Health Care and Social Assistance	479	18.0%
Professional, Scientific and Technical Services	387	14.6%
Education and Training	309	11.6%
Retail Trade	250	9.4%
Financial and Insurance Services	183	6.9%
Construction	168	6.3%

The most common occupations among Mont Albert North residents are listed below.

Occupation	Workers	Share of workers
Professionals	1,050	38.7%
Managers	519	19.1%
Clerical and Administrative Workers	329	12.1%
Community and Personal Service Workers	249	9.2%
Sales Workers	220	8.1%
Technicians and Trades Workers	196	7.2%

Education

Of residents attending an education institution in Mont Albert North, 23.9% are at university or higher education, 5.3% are at TAFE or vocational education, and 67.8% are at school.

81.8% of residents aged 15 and over have completed Year 12 or equivalent.

The most common fields of study among Mont Albert North residents with qualifications are listed below.

Field of study	People	Share
Management and Commerce	829	27.4%
Health	422	13.9%
Society and Culture	411	13.6%
Engineering and Related Technologies	332	11.0%
Education	292	9.6%
Natural and Physical Sciences	168	5.5%

Long-term health conditions

59.4% of residents report no long-term health condition. The most commonly reported conditions in Mont Albert North are listed below.

Health condition	People	Share of residents
Mental health condition (including depression or anxiety)	407	6.7%
Arthritis	404	6.6%
Asthma	400	6.6%
Heart disease (including heart attack or angina)	214	3.5%
Diabetes (excluding gestational diabetes)	213	3.5%
Cancer (including remission)	196	3.2%
Lung condition (including COPD or emphysema)	45	0.7%
Kidney disease	38	0.6%
Dementia (including Alzheimer's)	36	0.6%
Stroke	35	0.6%

20.1% of residents report one condition, 5.2% report two, and 2.0% report three or more.

Community and care

How residents of Mont Albert North contribute to their community (share of residents aged 15 and over).

Community activity	Share
Volunteers for an organisation or group	18.5%
Provides unpaid assistance to a person with a disability or health condition	14.7%
Provides unpaid child care	59.8%
Does 15 or more hours of unpaid domestic work	22.8%
Has served or is serving in the Australian Defence Force	1.6%

Moving and stability

Mobility	Share of residents
Same address 1 year ago	88.1%
Moved within Victoria in the last year	8.6%
Moved interstate in the last year	0.6%
Moved from overseas in the last year	1.0%
Same address 5 years ago	64.1%
Moved within Victoria in the last 5 years	22.6%
Moved interstate in the last 5 years	2.2%
Moved from overseas in the last 5 years	7.0%

Photo: Mont Albert North, Victoria. Credit: PsJeremy from Melbourne, Australia / CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons.

Crime and safety

Victoria Police recorded 178 offences in Mont Albert North in the 12 months to March 2026.

Offence division	Recorded offences
A Crimes against the person	27
B Property and deception offences	112
C Drug offences	6
D Public order and security offences	7
E Justice procedures offences	26
F Other offences	0

That is a calculated rate of 31.7 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 Whitehorse local government area recorded 6,208 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
117

2023
117

2024
138

2025
222

2026
178

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

Box Hill North (1.7 km)
Mont Albert (1.7 km)
Doncaster (2.5 km)
Balwyn (2.5 km)
Box Hill (2.5 km)

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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.

Mont Albert North

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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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