Strathtulloh is a suburb in Melton, Victoria (postcode 3338), located in the Greater Melbourne region. At the ABS Census 2021 it had a population of 3,997 people.

At a glance

Population (2021)

3,997

Median age

Household income

$2,188/wk

Weekly rent

$380

Unemployment

5.3%

SEIFA IRSD decile

7 / 10

Age distribution

0-4

13.8%

5-14

15.6%

15-19

3.2%

20-24

6.6%

25-34

27.3%

35-44

20.2%

45-54

6.4%

55-64

4.4%

65-74

1.9%

75-84

0.6%

85+

0.2%

Housing tenure

Owned

7.6%

Mortgage

64.9%

Rented

25.7%

Other

0.3%

Key statistics

Indicator	Value
Postcode	3338
Population (2021)	3,997
Males	2,015 (50.4%)
Females	1,981 (49.6%)
Median age	29 years
Average household size	3.2
Median weekly household income	$2,188
Median weekly family income	$2,191
Median weekly rent	$380
Median monthly mortgage	$1,950
Labour force	2,120
Unemployment rate	5.3%
Participation rate	80.1%
Born overseas	47.1%
Separate houses	94.0%
Worked at home	20.9%
SEIFA IRSD decile	7 of 10
Bachelor degree or higher	51.2%
Completed Year 12 or equivalent	77.9%
Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander residents	0.8%
Residents needing assistance with core activities	2.5%
Households with 2+ vehicles	67.7%
Distance from Melbourne CBD	33.5 km (straight line)

Age profile

Median age: 29 years. Residents under 15: 29.4%. Residents aged 65 and over: 2.7%.

Age group	People	Share of population
0-4	551	13.8%
5-14	624	15.6%
15-19	127	3.2%
20-24	265	6.6%
25-34	1,091	27.3%
35-44	807	20.2%
45-54	254	6.4%
55-64	176	4.4%
65-74	77	1.9%
75-84	25	0.6%
85 and over	7	0.2%

Households and families

Household type	Count	Share of households
Total households	1,190
Average household size	3.2
One person	114	9.6%
Two persons	319	26.8%
Three persons	279	23.4%
Four persons	276	23.2%
Five persons	125	10.5%
Six or more persons	77	6.5%

Family type	Count	Share of families
Total families	1,104
Couples with children	37	3.4%
Couples without children	308	27.9%
One-parent families	121	11.0%
Other families	15	1.4%

Children ever born

Measure	Value
Average children per woman aged 15+	1.39
Women with no children	33.2%
Women with three or more children	18.1%

Of the 654 couple families with children in Strathtulloh, 9.6% are step or blended families.

Marital status

Marital status of residents aged 15 and over in Strathtulloh.

Status	Share of adults
Married (registered marriage)	57.7%
Married (de facto)	14.1%
Not married	28.2%

Housing

Dwellings	Count	Share of dwellings
Total dwellings	1,230
Occupied	1,190	96.7%
Unoccupied	42	3.4%

Dwelling structure	Count	Share of dwellings
Separate house	1,156	94.0%
Semi-detached or townhouse	24	2.0%
Flat or apartment	0	0.0%
Other dwelling	0	0.0%

Tenure	Count	Share of households
Owned outright	91	7.6%
Owned with a mortgage	772	64.9%
Rented	306	25.7%
Other tenure	3	0.3%

Weekly rent

Rent band	Share of renting households
Under $350 per week	21.6%
$350 to $549 per week	75.3%
$550 or more per week	3.1%

1.0% of renting households rent through a state or community housing provider.

Monthly mortgage repayments

Repayment band	Share of mortgaged households
Under $1,000	3.2%
$1,000 to $1,799	33.1%
$1,800 to $2,999	56.4%
$3,000 or more	7.2%

Bedrooms per dwelling

Bedrooms	Share of dwellings
None or one bedroom	0.3%
Two bedrooms	1.3%
Three bedrooms	20.4%
Four or more bedrooms	78.1%

Employment

Labour force status	Count	Share
Labour force	2,120
Employed	2,006	94.6%
Unemployed	113	5.3%
Not in the labour force	527
Unemployment rate	5.3%
Participation rate	80.1%

30.6% of employed residents work part time, fewer than 35 hours per week.

Household income

Household incomes in Strathtulloh are distributed across the following weekly bands.

Weekly household income	Share of households
Under $650	5.3%
$650 to $1,499	21.6%
$1,500 to $2,999	48.4%
$3,000 or more	24.7%

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

Weekly personal income	Share of residents 15+
Under $500	26.0%
$500 to $999	23.9%
$1,000 to $1,999	40.0%
$2,000 or more	10.0%

Travel to work

Method	Count	Share of workers
Car driver	1,172	58.4%
Car passenger	71	3.5%
Train	66	3.3%
Bus	0	0.0%
Tram	0	0.0%
Bicycle	3	0.1%
Walked only	13	0.6%
Worked at home	419	20.9%

Religious affiliation

Religion	Count	Share of residents
Christianity	1,481	37.1%
No religion	791	19.8%
Islam	185	4.6%
Hinduism	417	10.4%
Buddhism	61	1.5%
Judaism	11	0.3%
Other or not stated	1,051	26.3%

Socio-economic profile (SEIFA 2021)

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

Index	Score	Decile	Percentile
IRSD (disadvantage)	1038	7	65
IRSAD (advantage and disadvantage)	1024	8
IER (economic resources)	1066	8
IEO (education and occupation)	1013	7

Where residents were born

50.3% of residents were born in Australia and 49.7% were born overseas. The most common overseas birthplaces in Strathtulloh are listed below.

Country of birth	People	Share of residents
India	841	22.1%
Philippines	306	8.0%
New Zealand	123	3.2%
Bangladesh	41	1.1%
Pakistan	39	1.0%
Malta	28	0.7%

When overseas-born residents arrived

Year of arrival	Share of overseas-born residents
2016 to 2021	31.7%
2011 to 2015	28.8%
2001 to 2010	33.5%
Before 2001	5.9%

Languages spoken at home

43.2% of residents speak only English at home. The most common other languages in Strathtulloh are listed below. Across all households, 4.9% of residents speak English not well or not at all.

Language	People	Share of residents
Indo-Aryan: Punjabi	816	21.8%
Southeast Asian Austronesian languages: Tagalog	142	3.8%
Southeast Asian Austronesian languages: Filipino	125	3.3%
Indo-Aryan: Hindi	112	3.0%
Tamil	60	1.6%
Indo-Aryan: Bengali	55	1.5%

Ancestry

Residents of Strathtulloh most commonly report the following ancestries.

Ancestry	Responses	Share of responses
Australian	686	14.4%
Indian	622	13.1%
English	606	12.8%
Filipino	384	8.1%
Maltese	200	4.2%
Italian	133	2.8%

Work and industry

The largest employment sectors for Strathtulloh residents are listed below.

Industry of employment	Workers	Share of workers
Health Care and Social Assistance	316	16.5%
Transport, Postal and Warehousing	266	13.9%
Construction	186	9.7%
Retail Trade	174	9.1%
Manufacturing	137	7.1%
Education and Training	124	6.5%

The most common occupations among Strathtulloh residents are listed below.

Occupation	Workers	Share of workers
Professionals	377	19.1%
Technicians and Trades Workers	289	14.6%
Machinery Operators and Drivers	286	14.5%
Clerical and Administrative Workers	285	14.4%
Community and Personal Service Workers	268	13.6%
Labourers	170	8.6%

Education

Of residents attending an education institution in Strathtulloh, 12.4% are at university or higher education, 14.0% are at TAFE or vocational education, and 68.1% are at school.

77.9% of residents aged 15 and over have completed Year 12 or equivalent.

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

Field of study	People	Share
Management and Commerce	385	21.9%
Engineering and Related Technologies	302	17.2%
Society and Culture	223	12.7%
Health	192	10.9%
Information Technology	167	9.5%
Food, Hospitality and Personal Services	160	9.1%

Long-term health conditions

76.7% of residents report no long-term health condition. The most commonly reported conditions in Strathtulloh are listed below.

Health condition	People	Share of residents
Asthma	274	7.1%
Mental health condition (including depression or anxiety)	173	4.5%
Diabetes (excluding gestational diabetes)	112	2.9%
Arthritis	83	2.1%
Heart disease (including heart attack or angina)	35	0.9%
Cancer (including remission)	26	0.7%
Lung condition (including COPD or emphysema)	15	0.4%
Kidney disease	12	0.3%
Stroke	3	0.1%
Dementia (including Alzheimer's)	0	0.0%

12.8% of residents report one condition, 2.3% report two, and 0.8% report three or more.

Community and care

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

Community activity	Share
Volunteers for an organisation or group	7.8%
Provides unpaid assistance to a person with a disability or health condition	8.3%
Provides unpaid child care	82.3%
Does 15 or more hours of unpaid domestic work	20.6%
Has served or is serving in the Australian Defence Force	0.5%

Moving and stability

Mobility	Share of residents
Same address 1 year ago	63.7%
Moved within Victoria in the last year	31.2%
Moved interstate in the last year	1.6%
Moved from overseas in the last year	1.1%
Same address 5 years ago	12.9%
Moved within Victoria in the last 5 years	65.5%
Moved interstate in the last 5 years	6.0%
Moved from overseas in the last 5 years	13.9%

Photo: Strathtulloh, Victoria. Credit: Mattinbgn ( talk · contribs ) / CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.

Crime and safety

Victoria Police recorded 489 offences in Strathtulloh in the 12 months to March 2026.

Offence division	Recorded offences
A Crimes against the person	82
B Property and deception offences	326
C Drug offences	19
D Public order and security offences	17
E Justice procedures offences	43
F Other offences	2

That is a calculated rate of 122.3 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 Melton local government area recorded 6,463 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
282

2023
215

2024
370

2025
449

2026
489

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

Cobblebank (2.7 km)
Weir Views (3.2 km)
Thornhill Park (3.3 km)
Melton South (4.0 km)
Exford (4.3 km)

Browse more suburbs in Melton, or explore the wider Greater Melbourne 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.

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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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