Toolern Vale suburb profile
Toolern Vale is a rural residential locality on Melbourne's western fringe that feels like open country, with rolling paddocks, scattered farmhouses and lifestyle blocks common. It attracts people seeking space for horses, hobby farming and a quieter pace while still relying on nearby towns for shops, schools and services. Housing mixes established farms with newer acreage parcels set along winding, treed roads, and local life is shaped more by outdoor pursuits than a busy high street, with bushland pockets, riding areas and broad skies defining the suburb's character.
Toolern Vale property market performance
Toolern Vale has relatively few property sales, so there isn't enough recent data to publish a reliable median price for houses or units. The available figures show 2 house sales recorded over the past 3 months.
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Toolern Vale demographics
Toolern Vale is a small community of 818 people with a median age of 44. The typical household earns $1,908 a week, about $99,200 a year.
Families are a clear feature here: couple families with children account for 49.8% and couple families without children 38.1%, while one-parent families make up 12.1%. In raw numbers there are 111 couple families with children, 85 couple families without children and 27 one-parent families.
Homes in Toolern Vale are overwhelmingly owner-occupied: 46.8% are owned outright and 45.2% are owned with a mortgage, totalling 92.0% owner-occupied, while 8.1% of dwellings are rented.
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