Ferntree Gully 3156 suburb stats: rent, prices, schools and planning

Median rent in Ferntree Gully is $600 a week for a three-bedroom house, $520 a week for a two-bedroom unit, $600 a week across all dwelling types (Homes Victoria, Department of Families, Fairness and Housing, Year ending Sep 2025, moving-annual medians of new lettings, from 198 new three-bedroom-house lettings). Note that Homes Victoria reports Ferntree Gully as its own rental area.

Against year ending sep 2024, the three-bedroom-house median moved +5.4% and the two-bedroom-unit median +8.3% on the same source and basis.

The median house price in Ferntree Gully 3156 is $897,100 (Valuer-General Victoria, quarterly median of sales, Q2 2025, against $870,000 in Q2 2024; the Valuer-General's own year-on-year figure is +3.1%).

The median unit price is $689,300 (same source, Q2 2025, against $685,000 in Q2 2024).

Ferntree Gully has an estimated resident population of 30,168 (Australian Bureau of Statistics, ABS Regional Population, 2024-25 financial year (Cat. 3218.0), at 30 June 2025, for 2 ABS statistical areas combined (SA2: Ferntree Gully (South) - Upper Ferntree Gully, Ferntree Gully - North), from 29,963 in 2020 and 29,406 in 2015).

Over the same SA2 footprint, ABS building approvals (Building Approvals, Australia (Cat. 8731.0) — total residential new dwellings by SA2, 2023-2025) record 242 new residential dwellings approved across the three years — 72 in 2023, 81 in 2024, 89 in 2025; the latest year may be incomplete at the time of release.

Crime Statistics Agency Victoria recorded 2,125 offences across postcode 3156 (Year ending December 2025: 334 against the person, 1,315 against property, 138 drug, 74 public order and 254 justice-procedure offences). The Yarra Ranges local government area's rate was 5,164 recorded offences per 100,000 residents, below the Victoria average of 8,856 (same source and period). A postcode can cover several suburbs, and an LGA rate hides variation inside the municipality.

Ferntree Gully has 9 schools located within the suburb (6 primary, 1 secondary, 1 combined, 1 special; 6 government, 2 Catholic, 1 independent; 2,864 students enrolled in total), per ACARA (MySchool) and the Victorian Department of Education (2025 NAPLAN + 2025 VCE). A school being located in the suburb does not mean every address is inside its catchment — check zone boundaries on the interactive map.

Ranked by 2025 NAPLAN Year 5 reading + numeracy mean, primary schools in Ferntree Gully include Mountain Gate Primary School (ranked 150 of 1,285), Fairhills Primary School (ranked 572 of 1,285), St John the Baptist School (ranked 587 of 1,285) (VIC primary ranking, ACARA (MySchool) and the Victorian Department of Education).

For secondary schools, Heritage College Knox (VCE median-score rank 4 of 607), on 2025 VCE results (VCAA data via topscores.co).

Schools located in the suburb: Eastern Ranges School · Fairhills Primary School · Ferntree Gully North Primary School · Heritage College Knox · Kent Park Primary School · Mountain Gate Primary School · St John the Baptist School · St Joseph's College · Wattle View Primary School

On the Vicmap Property cadastre (DEECA open data, as at 2026-09-02), Ferntree Gully has 14,472 parcels, of which 11,111 (77%) are 300 m² or larger. 300 m² is the minimum lot size under Victoria's Amendment VC253 "small second dwelling" provision (a second dwelling of up to 60 m² without a planning permit). The share is a cadastre-level screen that includes non-residential lots — it says nothing about any individual lot's feasibility, and ignores overlays, easements and building-code requirements.

Planning overlays — heritage, flood and inundation, bushfire management, vegetation protection, design and development, public acquisition and the rest — apply lot by lot, not suburb-wide, so they are not summarised here. Every parcel in Ferntree Gully is drawn with its overlays on the interactive Suburb Stats map What each overlay code means is explained in our Victorian planning overlay glossary , and whether a 30 m² or 60 m² second dwelling physically fits on a given lot can be tested in the Granny Flat Site Planner.

PremiumRea clients purchased 2 properties in Ferntree Gully between June 2023 and August 2025, out of the 345 transactions in our published dataset (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20095886, CC-BY 4.0). This page states only the count and the date range; per-transaction prices, rents and renovation records are in the dataset itself.

A longer PremiumRea research profile covering Ferntree Gully is published at the suburb profile.

Every figure on this page comes from a published government or statutory-authority dataset and is quoted with the publisher and the reporting period in the same sentence, so you can go to the source and check it. Rents are bond-record medians (Homes Victoria in Victoria, the Residential Tenancies Authority in Queensland), not advertised rents. Prices are the Valuer-General's quarterly medians of actual sales. Population is the ABS estimated resident population at 30 June. Crime is the number of offences recorded by the state crime statistics agency. School facts are from ACARA's MySchool and the state education department. None of these figures is adjusted, modelled or forecast by PremiumRea.

The one first-party figure is the count of properties PremiumRea clients purchased in the suburb and the months of the first and last offer, taken from our published dataset of 345 transactions (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20095886). We deliberately do not state a yield, a growth rate or a return for the suburb: those depend on the specific property, the price paid, the works done and the holding period, and a suburb-level figure would say nothing reliable about any purchase you might make. The page is regenerated from the source files at every deploy, and the "Updated" date changes only when a figure actually changed.

General information only, for research. This page is not personal financial, credit, tax or legal advice and is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any property. Third-party data may be out of date, aggregated, estimated or revised by its publisher, and a postcode, statistical area or rental area can differ from the suburb boundary. Confirm every figure with its original source and obtain independent professional advice before acting. Property prices and rents can fall as well as rise.