Elmhurst suburb profile
Elmhurst is a small rural township in Victoria's Pyrenees region, set among rolling farmland and the lower slopes of the Pyrenees ranges. It reads as a country service village, with a compact main street offering basic shops, a pub and a community hall, and a landscape dominated by cropping and grazing properties. Housing ranges from modest timber cottages and weatherboard homes to farmhouses and larger rural blocks, attracting locals who work the land, families after a quieter pace and people seeking a regional lifestyle within easy driving reach of larger centres such as Ballarat and Ararat.
Elmhurst property market performance
Like many smaller suburbs, Elmhurst sees relatively few property sales, so there isn't enough recent data to publish a reliable median price for houses or units.
Over the last 3 months there was one house sale on record. Other market metrics, including recent value changes, median days on market and average rents, are not available because there haven't been enough recent sales or rentals to produce reliable figures.
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Elmhurst demographics
A small community of 185 people has a median age of 58. The median total household income is $774 a week, roughly $40,248 a year.
Family life is dominated by couple families without children, who make up 61.5% of families — 24 households. Couple families with children account for 28.2% (11 households) and one-parent families 10.3% (4 households).
Homes in Elmhurst are largely owner-occupied: roughly nine in ten, or 88.7%, are owned (71.2% owned outright and 17.5% owned with a mortgage), while renters make up 11.2%.
Suburbs near Elmhurst
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