Killara is in Wodonga LGA, VIC, postcode 3691, with population 1,485.
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Price series isn't recorded for this suburb. Census housing data is shown instead.
Official vacancy is published at the Regional Victoria level, not per suburb. Shaded band marks a balanced market (2.5–3.5%).
This suburb 23% · VIC median 17%
Nationally · lighter rent burden than 25% of AU suburbs
Owners with a mortgage repay a median of $1,733/mo, while renters pay about $2,297/mo — renting runs $564/mo higher on these medians.
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Building due diligence
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NCC 2022 Housing Provisions: how to use · NCC 2022 Volume Two and Housing Provisions
LGA-level official projection (Victoria in Future 2023, DTP). Indicative of the wider council area, not a suburb-level forecast.
ABS population projection (2022 base) for the Baranduda - Leneva SA2 statistical area — the finest official projection grain available; suburb-level projections do not exist.
Killara is a close-knit residential community in Victoria within the Wodonga local government area (postcode 3691). The area has roughly 1,485 residents and a predominantly early-career demographic, with a median age of 31. Households earn a median income of $118K per year, with an average household size of 2.9 people. Recent annual estimates show population movement staying broadly stable across the broader catchment, with population growth running at +1.2% year-on-year at the LGA level. VIC employment has moved +0.8% year-on-year in the official ABS Labour Force trend series, which provides the broader jobs backdrop for this suburb. VIC also had 41 Commonwealth-backed major projects under construction, 18 underway, and 24 in planning as at 2025-09-01, which is useful as a broader delivery backdrop rather than a suburb-specific project count. The most common occupations are professionals, technicians & trades, community & personal service. Employment in the area leans toward healthcare and construction. The top ancestries reported are Australian, English, Irish.
The current median weekly rent is $530. The median monthly mortgage repayment is $1,733.
The crime rate in the Wodonga LGA is higher than average at 9,150 incidents per 100,000 population.
On the investment side, Population growth of +1.2% year-on-year points to stable demand fundamentals. Building approvals have changed +0% year-on-year, indicating steady development activity.
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Killara is usable as a read, though it still needs cross-checking.
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Schools, transport, and hospitals are useful as presence signals, but they still have different source cadences.
This page stays indexable because Killara is a real locality with enough context to be directionally useful. The tradeoff is that coverage is lighter than a stronger suburb profile, so the read should stay cautious.
Use it for direction first, then confirm the story against stronger neighbouring suburbs or the state hub before relying on it.
Coverage is thinner on school matches, hospital coverage, and transport stops; lean less on this one page and confirm those gaps elsewhere.
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This page remains visible, but it should be read as a locality brief rather than a full-confidence suburb profile.
Read it as a direction-setter rather than a final answer: frame the locality, then verify with compare, stronger nearby suburbs, and the state hub.
If Killara feels too thin on its own, use these nearby suburbs as stronger local reads before making a shortlist decision.
pop -200 · adds house price coverage · rent -$140/wk
Better covered alternative: use this as the stronger reference point before judging the thin page.
pop -600 · adds house price coverage · rent -$150/wk
Better covered alternative: use this as the stronger reference point before judging the thin page.
Killara is in the Wodonga Local Government Area, VIC, postcode 3691. Council-level context for Wodonga LGA (suburb mix, population, rent, and price coverage) is available on the QuickProperty LGA page.
The median weekly rent in Killara is $530/wk, based on the current market rent dataset. The current rent signal is rent context available.
Rent context available: Killara has usable rent context. Use this as a suburb screening signal before comparing candidates or modelling a purchase; the matching rent ranking can provide broader market context.
QuickProperty's investment signals for Killara show: Stable, Steady. These are computed from price, rent, income, and population data — not an opaque score.
Property prices come from state Valuers General offices and ABS Data by Region. Demographics are from ABS Census 2021. School ICSEA scores are from ACARA. Crime statistics are from state police agencies. Transport data is sourced from GTFS feeds.
Property prices update quarterly. RBA macro indicators update with each deploy. Demographics are from Census 2021. School ICSEA scores are from ACARA 2025.