Stanhope suburb profile
Stanhope is a small agricultural township in Victoria's Goulburn Valley, set among irrigated dairy and fodder country and broadacre cropping. It functions as a service centre for surrounding farms, with a compact main street of essential shops, a hotel and sporting facilities that anchor local life. Housing is largely single-storey weatherboard and brick homes on generous blocks, with farmhouses and rural residential blocks on the edges. Daily life is quiet and family-oriented, shaped by farming seasons and club sport, while larger regional centres are a short drive away for expanded services and employment.
Stanhope property market performance
Like many smaller suburbs, Stanhope has relatively few recent property sales, so there isn't enough data to publish a reliable median price for houses or units. Over the last 3 months there was one recorded house sale and one unit sale.
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Stanhope demographics
This is a community of 826 people with a median age of 49 and a median household income of $1,125 a week, or about $58,500 a year.
Families are prominent here: couple families without children are the largest group at 51.7%, while couple families with children make up 28.6%. One-parent families account for 17.5% and other families 2.1%. Combined, couple families (with and without children) make up just over four in five families (80.3%).
Homes in Stanhope are mostly owner-occupied, at 83.4% overall—49.8% owned outright and 33.6% owned with a mortgage—while renters make up 16.5% of dwellings.
Suburbs near Stanhope
Some popular suburbs near Stanhope include:
How does Stanhope compare to nearby suburbs?
- House price growth: Property prices in nearby Kyabram have risen 22.1% more than in Stanhope over the past year.

