Thornhill Park is a suburb in Melton, Victoria (postcode 3335), located in the Greater Melbourne region. At the ABS Census 2021 it had a population of 3,066 people.

At a glance

Population (2021)

3,066

Median age

Household income

$2,005/wk

Weekly rent

$380

Unemployment

6.6%

SEIFA IRSD decile

6 / 10

Age distribution

0-4

13.9%

5-14

12.9%

15-19

3.5%

20-24

6.1%

25-34

30.3%

35-44

18.7%

45-54

6.8%

55-64

4.9%

65-74

2.3%

75-84

0.7%

Housing tenure

Owned

4.9%

Mortgage

67.3%

Rented

24.8%

Other

0.7%

Key statistics

Indicator	Value
Postcode	3335
Population (2021)	3,066
Males	1,504 (49.1%)
Females	1,559 (50.8%)
Median age	29 years
Average household size	3
Median weekly household income	$2,005
Median weekly family income	$2,077
Median weekly rent	$380
Median monthly mortgage	$1,950
Labour force	1,662
Unemployment rate	6.6%
Participation rate	78.1%
Born overseas	48.2%
Separate houses	91.5%
Worked at home	18.4%
SEIFA IRSD decile	6 of 10
Bachelor degree or higher	50.3%
Completed Year 12 or equivalent	75.8%
Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander residents	0.5%
Residents needing assistance with core activities	2.8%
Households with 2+ vehicles	67.7%
Distance from Melbourne CBD	30.6 km (straight line)

Age profile

Median age: 29 years. Residents under 15: 26.8%. Residents aged 65 and over: 3.0%.

Age group	People	Share of population
0-4	426	13.9%
5-14	396	12.9%
15-19	106	3.5%
20-24	186	6.1%
25-34	929	30.3%
35-44	572	18.7%
45-54	209	6.8%
55-64	150	4.9%
65-74	72	2.3%
75-84	21	0.7%
85 and over	0	0.0%

Households and families

Household type	Count	Share of households
Total households	987
Average household size	3
One person	142	14.4%
Two persons	281	28.5%
Three persons	233	23.6%
Four persons	194	19.7%
Five persons	86	8.7%
Six or more persons	45	4.6%

Family type	Count	Share of families
Total families	859
Couples with children	24	2.8%
Couples without children	268	31.2%
One-parent families	121	14.1%
Other families	5	0.6%

Children ever born

Measure	Value
Average children per woman aged 15+	1.3
Women with no children	38.0%
Women with three or more children	16.8%

Of the 460 couple families with children in Thornhill Park, 8.7% are step or blended families.

Marital status

Marital status of residents aged 15 and over in Thornhill Park.

Status	Share of adults
Married (registered marriage)	52.3%
Married (de facto)	16.0%
Not married	31.7%

Housing

Dwellings	Count	Share of dwellings
Total dwellings	1,053
Occupied	987	93.7%
Unoccupied	62	5.9%

Dwelling structure	Count	Share of dwellings
Separate house	963	91.5%
Semi-detached or townhouse	27	2.6%
Flat or apartment	0	0.0%
Other dwelling	0	0.0%

Tenure	Count	Share of households
Owned outright	48	4.9%
Owned with a mortgage	664	67.3%
Rented	245	24.8%
Other tenure	7	0.7%

Weekly rent

Rent band	Share of renting households
Under $350 per week	16.0%
$350 to $549 per week	82.3%
$550 or more per week	1.7%

0.0% of renting households rent through a state or community housing provider.

Monthly mortgage repayments

Repayment band	Share of mortgaged households
Under $1,000	2.4%
$1,000 to $1,799	33.5%
$1,800 to $2,999	56.5%
$3,000 or more	7.7%

Bedrooms per dwelling

Bedrooms	Share of dwellings
None or one bedroom	0.0%
Two bedrooms	0.0%
Three bedrooms	27.8%
Four or more bedrooms	72.2%

Employment

Labour force status	Count	Share
Labour force	1,662
Employed	1,556	93.6%
Unemployed	110	6.6%
Not in the labour force	466
Unemployment rate	6.6%
Participation rate	78.1%

28.6% of employed residents work part time, fewer than 35 hours per week.

Household income

Household incomes in Thornhill Park are distributed across the following weekly bands.

Weekly household income	Share of households
Under $650	5.6%
$650 to $1,499	25.5%
$1,500 to $2,999	49.5%
$3,000 or more	19.5%

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

Weekly personal income	Share of residents 15+
Under $500	27.4%
$500 to $999	24.1%
$1,000 to $1,999	40.0%
$2,000 or more	8.5%

Travel to work

Method	Count	Share of workers
Car driver	945	60.7%
Car passenger	61	3.9%
Train	35	2.2%
Bus	0	0.0%
Tram	0	0.0%
Bicycle	0	0.0%
Walked only	0	0.0%
Worked at home	286	18.4%

Religious affiliation

Religion	Count	Share of residents
Christianity	1,313	42.8%
No religion	586	19.1%
Islam	208	6.8%
Hinduism	313	10.2%
Buddhism	116	3.8%
Judaism	0	0.0%
Other or not stated	530	17.3%

Socio-economic profile (SEIFA 2021)

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

Index	Score	Decile	Percentile
IRSD (disadvantage)	1020	6	54
IRSAD (advantage and disadvantage)	1010	7
IER (economic resources)	1054	7
IEO (education and occupation)	997	6

Where residents were born

49.8% of residents were born in Australia and 50.2% were born overseas. The most common overseas birthplaces in Thornhill Park are listed below.

Country of birth	People	Share of residents
India	443	15.2%
Philippines	233	8.0%
New Zealand	93	3.2%
Sri Lanka	55	1.9%
Vietnam	49	1.7%
Pakistan	42	1.4%

When overseas-born residents arrived

Year of arrival	Share of overseas-born residents
2016 to 2021	27.6%
2011 to 2015	30.0%
2001 to 2010	32.7%
Before 2001	9.8%

Languages spoken at home

42.4% of residents speak only English at home. The most common other languages in Thornhill Park are listed below. Across all households, 5.7% of residents speak English not well or not at all.

Language	People	Share of residents
Indo-Aryan: Punjabi	359	12.4%
Southeast Asian Austronesian languages: Filipino	114	4.0%
Southeast Asian Austronesian languages: Tagalog	110	3.8%
Vietnamese	81	2.8%
Indo-Aryan: Hindi	76	2.6%
Indo-Aryan: Gujarati	72	2.5%

Ancestry

Residents of Thornhill Park most commonly report the following ancestries.

Ancestry	Responses	Share of responses
Australian	440	12.1%
Indian	435	12.0%
English	402	11.0%
Filipino	319	8.8%
Maltese	135	3.7%
Italian	119	3.3%

Work and industry

The largest employment sectors for Thornhill Park residents are listed below.

Industry of employment	Workers	Share of workers
Health Care and Social Assistance	224	15.4%
Transport, Postal and Warehousing	193	13.3%
Construction	183	12.6%
Retail Trade	121	8.3%
Manufacturing	103	7.1%
Accommodation and Food Services	82	5.6%

The most common occupations among Thornhill Park residents are listed below.

Occupation	Workers	Share of workers
Professionals	297	19.7%
Technicians and Trades Workers	244	16.2%
Clerical and Administrative Workers	222	14.8%
Machinery Operators and Drivers	183	12.2%
Community and Personal Service Workers	181	12.0%
Labourers	145	9.6%

Education

Of residents attending an education institution in Thornhill Park, 15.0% are at university or higher education, 10.8% are at TAFE or vocational education, and 67.7% are at school.

75.8% of residents aged 15 and over have completed Year 12 or equivalent.

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

Field of study	People	Share
Management and Commerce	339	24.3%
Engineering and Related Technologies	212	15.2%
Health	197	14.1%
Society and Culture	164	11.8%
Food, Hospitality and Personal Services	121	8.7%
Architecture and Building	94	6.7%

Long-term health conditions

73.6% of residents report no long-term health condition. The most commonly reported conditions in Thornhill Park are listed below.

Health condition	People	Share of residents
Asthma	209	6.8%
Mental health condition (including depression or anxiety)	152	4.9%
Diabetes (excluding gestational diabetes)	116	3.8%
Arthritis	66	2.1%
Heart disease (including heart attack or angina)	44	1.4%
Cancer (including remission)	34	1.1%
Kidney disease	14	0.5%
Lung condition (including COPD or emphysema)	9	0.3%
Stroke	7	0.2%
Dementia (including Alzheimer's)	3	0.1%

13.5% of residents report one condition, 2.8% report two, and 0.9% report three or more.

Community and care

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

Community activity	Share
Volunteers for an organisation or group	6.0%
Provides unpaid assistance to a person with a disability or health condition	9.7%
Provides unpaid child care	77.0%
Does 15 or more hours of unpaid domestic work	19.3%
Has served or is serving in the Australian Defence Force	0.5%

Moving and stability

Mobility	Share of residents
Same address 1 year ago	65.6%
Moved within Victoria in the last year	30.0%
Moved interstate in the last year	1.5%
Moved from overseas in the last year	1.2%
Same address 5 years ago	5.2%
Moved within Victoria in the last 5 years	78.8%
Moved interstate in the last 5 years	4.5%
Moved from overseas in the last 5 years	10.7%

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

Crime and safety

Victoria Police recorded 601 offences in Thornhill Park in the 12 months to March 2026.

Offence division	Recorded offences
A Crimes against the person	76
B Property and deception offences	415
C Drug offences	24
D Public order and security offences	30
E Justice procedures offences	56
F Other offences	0

That is a calculated rate of 196.0 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 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
296

2023
260

2024
350

2025
495

2026
601

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

Rockbank (2.1 km)
Grangefields (2.6 km)
Aintree (2.8 km)
Strathtulloh (3.3 km)
Cobblebank (3.5 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.

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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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