Is Clyde a nice place to live?

Clyde is an outer south-east Melbourne suburb with a semi-rural character and a compact town centre. The town centre includes local shops, community facilities and sporting fields, and tree-lined residential streets sit beside larger lifestyle blocks. Clyde is a young community of families with children, with couples with children making up 58.2% of families and incomes above the median for Victoria. The suburb is connected by arterial roads and bus services that link to regional rail, and the Clyde Township Community Centre on Valetta Street includes three kindergarten rooms and an outdoor play space.

Is it expensive to live in Clyde?

Buying in Clyde sits well above local incomes. At about $741,000, a house there works out to about 6.6 times a typical local annual household income. Against a typical local household income of about $2,152 a week at the most recent Census, average house rent of $595 a week would take about 28% of that income and average unit rent of $473 a week about 22%. On these figures renting takes a moderate share of a typical household's weekly income while buying is noticeably more stretched; whether that feels expensive depends on your own circumstances. Everyone's financial situation is different, so it's important to consider your own circumstances when deciding which suburb is right for you.

Is Clyde a good place to invest?

What stands out for Clyde is the house market: house values rose 5.0% over the past 12 months, a solid gain, while house rents increased 2.6%, a modest rise. For houses, capital growth outpaced rental income growth, with values rising by a larger margin than rents. This information has been prepared without taking your objectives, needs and overall financial situation into account. It is not meant to be a substitute for professional financial advice. For this reason, you should consider the appropriateness of the information and, if necessary, seek appropriate professional advice.

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Clyde suburb profile

Clyde is an outer south-east suburb of Melbourne in Victoria's City of Casey. It retains a semi-rural character, with grazing paddocks and lifestyle blocks alongside pockets of newer residential streets. The compact town centre offers local shops, community facilities and sporting fields, giving a country-town feel on the metropolitan fringe.

Set in Melbourne's growth corridor, Clyde is a short drive from the city and nearby urban centres and is connected by arterial roads and bus services that link to regional rail. Tree-lined residential streets sit beside larger blocks, so the suburb balances open outlooks with everyday conveniences.

Clyde property market performance

Clyde's median house price is $741,000, up 5.0% over the last 12 months, a solid rise. It's primarily a house market; there is no reliable median for units because too few units have sold here recently for a median to be published.

In Clyde, house rents rose 2.6% over the last 12 months, a modest rise, so house values ran ahead of rents.

	Houses	Units
Median price Past 3 months	$741K	N/A
Change in value Past 12 months	5.0%	N/A
Sold Past 3 months	110	N/A
Median days on market Past 12 months	37	N/A
Average rent Past 12 months	$595	$473
Change in rent Past 12 months	2.6%	N/A

5 year median price trend for houses and units

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Clyde demographics

Clyde is a young community of families with children and incomes above the median for Victoria.

Couples with children make up 58.2% of families, and 69.3% of homes are owned with a mortgage. At the 2021 Census there were 11,177 people living in Clyde.

Clyde and Victoria

	Suburb	VIC
Median age years	30	38
Median household income weekly	$2,152	$1,759
Couples with children share of families	58.2%	45.5%
Couples without children share of families	29.0%	37.6%
One-parent families share of families	11.3%	15.2%
Homes owned outright share of homes	6.9%	33.2%
Homes with a mortgage share of homes	69.3%	37.3%
Homes rented share of homes	23.7%	29.5%

Source: ABS 2021 Census. Shares of homes exclude other and not-stated tenure.

Clyde infrastructure, key developments and investment opportunities

Clyde's Clyde South precinct structure plan is being prepared by the Victorian Planning Authority, and in 2025 the project was recorded as in progress; the precinct covers about 1,057 hectares.

The Clyde Township Community Centre on Valetta Street was officially opened on 29 March 2025 and includes three kindergarten rooms and an outdoor play space. Major sewer upgrade works on Ballarto Road were underway in 2025, including investigative works for a new pump station and a rising sewer main planned to deliver about 16 km of pipeline connecting to the Pakenham recycling plant.

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How does Clyde compare to nearby suburbs?

Median house prices: Clyde’s median house price is 4.4% higher than Cranbourne East’s.
House price growth: Over the past 12 months, house prices in Clyde have grown 1.0% higher than in Clyde North.
Selling speed for houses: Properties in Clyde are selling 15.9% faster than in Clyde North.
House price growth: Over the past 12 months, house prices in Clyde have grown 28.9% lower than the average rate of growth across Melbourne.

Common questions about Clyde

Is Clyde a nice place to live?
Clyde is an outer south-east Melbourne suburb with a semi-rural character and a compact town centre. The town centre includes local shops, community facilities and sporting fields, and tree-lined residential streets sit beside larger lifestyle blocks.

Clyde is a young community of families with children, with couples with children making up 58.2% of families and incomes above the median for Victoria. The suburb is connected by arterial roads and bus services that link to regional rail, and the Clyde Township Community Centre on Valetta Street includes three kindergarten rooms and an outdoor play space.
Is it expensive to live in Clyde?
Buying in Clyde sits well above local incomes. At about $741,000, a house there works out to about 6.6 times a typical local annual household income.

Against a typical local household income of about $2,152 a week at the most recent Census, average house rent of $595 a week would take about 28% of that income and average unit rent of $473 a week about 22%. On these figures renting takes a moderate share of a typical household's weekly income while buying is noticeably more stretched; whether that feels expensive depends on your own circumstances.

Everyone's financial situation is different, so it's important to consider your own circumstances when deciding which suburb is right for you.
Is Clyde a good place to invest?
What stands out for Clyde is the house market: house values rose 5.0% over the past 12 months, a solid gain, while house rents increased 2.6%, a modest rise. For houses, capital growth outpaced rental income growth, with values rising by a larger margin than rents.

This information has been prepared without taking your objectives, needs and overall financial situation into account. It is not meant to be a substitute for professional financial advice. For this reason, you should consider the appropriateness of the information and, if necessary, seek appropriate professional advice.

Choose the right real estate agents in Clyde

There are 187 real estate agents in Clyde, but they don’t all deliver the same results.

Some agents have a much stronger presence in the suburb, with just 5 agents handling around 27.9% of all sales in the past year.

Commission rates in Clyde typically range from 2% to 2.95%. Comparing agents—including what they charge, what’s included, and how they structure their fees—is not only important when choosing an agent, the right structure can help ensure your chosen agent is motivated to achieve the best possible result.