Waaia VIC 3637
Waaia is in Moira LGA, VIC, postcode 3637, with population 420.
Usable evidence
Waaia is usable, but it still needs cross-checking.
Direct signals include Market rent, Crime, Population growth, and Building approvals. Treat Property prices, Schools, and Hospitals as the main gap before this becomes a stronger decision page.
Waaia has usable rent context. LGA fallback rent. Compare against suburb-level records before treating this as a precise suburb signal.
Open matching rent ranking →296 latest-year approvals in Moira, +0.0% YoY; population +0.7% YoY (0.4% 5yr).
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Manual release files parsed into suburb prices
Use current rent as a starting signal, not as a fixed underwriting truth.
Schools, transport, and hospitals are useful as presence signals, but they still have different source cadences.
Rent context available
Waaia has usable rent context. Snapshot rent $460/wk.
LGA fallback rent. Compare against suburb-level records before treating this as a precise suburb signal.
Waaia is usable, but it still needs cross-checking.
Direct signals include Market rent, Crime, Population growth, and Building approvals. Treat Property prices, Schools, and Hospitals as the main gap before this becomes a stronger decision page.
Use compare before shortlisting so the missing evidence is balanced against nearby suburbs.
Market rent, Crime, Population growth, Building approvals
No fallback or lower-precision signals flagged.
Property prices, Schools, Hospitals, Transport
Waaia currently reads as a thin-context candidate.
The profile is based on limited but still useful local context. The page is thin enough that nearby alternatives should be checked before shortlisting. Small local population makes the signal set more fragile.
Use stronger nearby reads or rankings before treating this suburb as a shortlist candidate.
No strong positive decision reason is visible yet.
The page is thin enough that nearby alternatives should be checked before shortlisting. Small local population makes the signal set more fragile.
Property prices, Schools, Transport
Use as context
This page stays indexable because Waaia 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.
Treat this as a directional locality brief first, then verify the suburb story against stronger nearby markets or the state hub.
The main gaps on this page are school matches, hospital coverage, and transport stops. That narrows how much confidence you should place on a single-page read.
Start here for context, then open compare, the state hub, or larger nearby suburbs before treating this as a complete market decision.
This page remains visible, but it should be read as a locality brief rather than a full-confidence suburb profile.
This page is useful for direction-setting, not closure. Use it to frame the locality, then confirm the story with compare, stronger nearby suburbs, and the state hub.
If Waaia feels too thin on its own, use these nearby suburbs as stronger local reads before making a shortlist decision.
pop same · rent -$275/wk
Similar local read: useful for context, but still compare the actual market signals.
pop same · rent -$310/wk
Similar local read: useful for context, but still compare the actual market signals.
- Buyers want a quick sense of price, schools, and neighbourhood scale before getting lost in data.
- Investors want to know whether rent, yield, and affordability broadly support the suburb story.
- Researchers want one place that ties property, demographics, transport, and services together.
Price history
Price series isn't recorded for this suburb. Census housing data is shown instead.
Full data detail
Waaia VIC
Waaia is a quiet locality in Victoria within the Moira local government area (postcode 3637). With a population of 420, the suburb has a mix of young professionals and families with a median age of 36. Households earn a median income of $70K 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 +0.7% year-on-year at the LGA level. VIC employment has moved +0.9% year-on-year in the official Jobs and Skills Australia NERO series, which provides the broader jobs backdrop for this suburb. VIC also had 45 Commonwealth-backed major projects under construction, 17 underway, and 27 in planning as at 2 October 2024, which is useful as a broader delivery backdrop rather than a suburb-specific project count. The most common occupations are managers, labourers, technicians & trades. Employment in the area leans toward agriculture and healthcare. The top ancestries reported are Australian, English, Irish.
The current median weekly rent is $460. The median monthly mortgage repayment is $1,192.
The crime rate in the Moira LGA is higher than average at 8,887 incidents per 100,000 population.
From an investment perspective, Population growth of +0.7% year-on-year indicates stable demand fundamentals. Building approvals have changed +0% year-on-year, indicating steady development activity.
Waaia is a quiet locality in Victoria within the Moira local government area (postcode 3637). With a population of 420, the suburb has a mix of young professionals and families with a median age of 36. Households earn a median income of $70K 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 +0.7% year-on-year at the LGA level. VIC employment has moved +0.9% year-on-year in the official Jobs and Skills Australia NERO series, which provides the broader jobs backdrop for this suburb. VIC also had 45 Commonwealth-backed major projects under construction, 17 underway, and 27 in planning as at 2 October 2024, which is useful as a broader delivery backdrop rather than a suburb-specific project count. The most common occupations are managers, labourers, technicians & trades. Employment in the area leans toward agriculture and healthcare. The top ancestries reported are Australian, English, Irish.
The current median weekly rent is $460. The median monthly mortgage repayment is $1,192.
The crime rate in the Moira LGA is higher than average at 8,887 incidents per 100,000 population.
From an investment perspective, Population growth of +0.7% year-on-year indicates stable demand fundamentals. Building approvals have changed +0% year-on-year, indicating steady development activity.
Waaia FAQ
Common questions-
What LGA is Waaia in?
Waaia is in the Moira Local Government Area, VIC, postcode 3637. Council-level context for Moira LGA (suburb mix, population, rent, and price coverage) is available on the QuickProperty LGA page.
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What is the typical weekly rent in Waaia?
The median weekly rent in Waaia is $460/wk, based on the current market rent dataset. The current rent signal is rent context available.
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What does the rent signal say about Waaia?
Rent context available: Waaia 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.
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Is Waaia a good investment?
QuickProperty's investment signals for Waaia show: Stable, Steady. These are computed from price, rent, income, and population data — not an opaque score.
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Where does QuickProperty get its data for Waaia?
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.
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How often is the Waaia data updated?
Property prices update quarterly. RBA macro indicators update with each deploy. Demographics are from Census 2021. School ICSEA scores are from ACARA 2025.