Is Tootgarook a nice place to live?

Tootgarook sits on the Mornington Peninsula beside Port Phillip and the Tootgarook Wetlands, with a small shopping strip, community halls and a sports reserve. It is an older community with incomes below the Victorian median and about 3,178 residents, and daily life centres on the shopping strip, the halls, the reserve and the nearby foreshore for walking and birdwatching; Point Nepean Road runs through the suburb and local buses link to neighbouring centres. The suburb was included in an area-wide shire road safety package that was completed and included compact roundabouts and raised safety platforms at key intersections.

Is it expensive to live in Tootgarook?

A typical local household earned about $1,294 a week at the most recent Census. With house rents averaging $585 a week, rent would take about 45% of that weekly household income, while unit rents around $430 a week would take about 33%. The median house price of $770,000 works out to about 11.4 times a typical local annual household income, which sits well above local incomes. That makes buying in Tootgarook more stretched against local incomes than renting; if you're renting rather than buying, the rent share is the number that matters to you. Everyone's financial situation is different, so it's important to consider your own circumstances when deciding which suburb is right for you.

Is Tootgarook a good place to invest?

In Tootgarook, house rents rose 5.4% and house values rose 3.3% over the past 12 months. For houses, rental income grew faster than capital growth. 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.

Get a property report and suburb profile for any property in Tootgarook

Please enter your address and select an option from the list.

Join the 2.6 million Australians* who use our services every year.

Tootgarook suburb profile

Tootgarook sits on the Mornington Peninsula, near Port Phillip and the Tootgarook Wetlands. The suburb is largely low-rise, with a mix of older weatherboard cottages and newer single-storey homes, quiet streets and pockets of native scrub.

Local life centres on a small shopping strip, community halls and a sports reserve, while the reserve and nearby foreshore offer walking, birdwatching and access to the bay. Point Nepean Road runs through the suburb and local bus services link to neighbouring centres across the peninsula.

Tootgarook property market performance

Tootgarook's median house price is $770,000, up a modest 3.3% over 12 months. Units have no reliable median published, so Tootgarook reads as a house market.

In Tootgarook, house rents rose 5.4% over 12 months, a notable increase that outpaced the modest growth recorded for house values.

	Houses	Units
Median price Past 3 months	$770K	N/A
Change in value Past 12 months	3.3%	N/A
Sold Past 3 months	15	N/A
Median days on market Past 12 months	39	N/A
Average rent Past 12 months	$585	$430
Change in rent Past 12 months	5.4%	N/A

5 year median price trend for houses and units

Access homes before they're listed for sale

Build a buying brief and get first access to properties that aren't yet on the market.

Tootgarook demographics

Tootgarook is an older community with incomes below the median for Victoria.

Couples without children make up 44.3% of families and 37.9% of homes are owned outright. At the 2021 Census there were 3,178 people living in Tootgarook.

Tootgarook and Victoria

	Suburb	VIC
Median age years	46	38
Median household income weekly	$1,294	$1,759
Couples with children share of families	34.6%	45.5%
Couples without children share of families	44.3%	37.6%
One-parent families share of families	20.3%	15.2%
Homes owned outright share of homes	37.9%	33.2%
Homes with a mortgage share of homes	32.8%	37.3%
Homes rented share of homes	29.3%	29.5%

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

Tootgarook infrastructure, key developments and investment opportunities

Tootgarook is part of the Rye and Tootgarook area-wide safety upgrade, a shire road safety package the council reports was completed in 2024 and which included compact roundabouts and raised safety platforms at key intersections. The suburb is also covered by the Tootgarook Wetland Management Plan adopted in 2018, and Mornington Peninsula Shire and Trust for Nature signed conservation covenants in 2020 that placed permanent legal protection over more than 130 hectares including parts of the Tootgarook wetland.

Coastal works reached Tootgarook in 2022 when beach renourishment delivered sand to local shores, and in 2022 the Victorian government announced plans to progress an upgrade of the Tootgarook two-lane boat ramp, with designs to address sand accumulation and parking constraints.

Suburbs near Tootgarook

Some popular suburbs near Tootgarook include:

How does Tootgarook compare to nearby suburbs?

Median house prices: Tootgarook’s median house price is 9.5% higher than Capel Sound’s.
House price growth: Over the past 12 months, house prices in Tootgarook have grown 0.6% higher than in Capel Sound.
Selling speed for houses: Properties in Tootgarook are selling 9.3% faster than in Rye.
Investment considerations: In Tootgarook, the rental yield for house is 8.0% lower than the Melbourne average, while the rental yield for units is 29.7% lower.
House price growth: Over the past 12 months, house prices in Tootgarook have grown 14.4% lower than the average rate of growth across Melbourne.
Unit price growth:Over the past 12 months, unit prices in Tootgarook have grown 31.2% lower than the average rate of growth for units across Melbourne.

Common questions about Tootgarook

Is Tootgarook a nice place to live?
Tootgarook sits on the Mornington Peninsula beside Port Phillip and the Tootgarook Wetlands, with a small shopping strip, community halls and a sports reserve.
It is an older community with incomes below the Victorian median and about 3,178 residents, and daily life centres on the shopping strip, the halls, the reserve and the nearby foreshore for walking and birdwatching; Point Nepean Road runs through the suburb and local buses link to neighbouring centres. The suburb was included in an area-wide shire road safety package that was completed and included compact roundabouts and raised safety platforms at key intersections.
Is it expensive to live in Tootgarook?
A typical local household earned about $1,294 a week at the most recent Census. With house rents averaging $585 a week, rent would take about 45% of that weekly household income, while unit rents around $430 a week would take about 33%.

The median house price of $770,000 works out to about 11.4 times a typical local annual household income, which sits well above local incomes. That makes buying in Tootgarook more stretched against local incomes than renting; if you're renting rather than buying, the rent share is the number that matters to you.

Everyone's financial situation is different, so it's important to consider your own circumstances when deciding which suburb is right for you.
Is Tootgarook a good place to invest?
In Tootgarook, house rents rose 5.4% and house values rose 3.3% over the past 12 months. For houses, rental income grew faster than capital growth.

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 Tootgarook

Choosing the right real estate agent in Tootgarook can have a big impact on your sale. While there are 41 real estate agents working in the suburb, but just 5 of them were responsible for 49.0% of all property sales over the past year, showing a strong footprint and track record in the area.

Commission rates typically range from 1.75% to 2.5%, depending on the agent and what’s included. Comparing both performance and fee structures can help you find someone who's well-suited to your needs, and set them up for a successful result.