Free market report · Data to July 2026

Hepburn property market

Hepburn is one of the 453 council areas we track on the Australian property clock. This page is the plain-numbers read: where it sits in the cycle, who lives there, what's being built, and the suburbs inside it.

Houses · cycle position

Rising

The Hepburn house market is accelerating. Growth is building pace rather than fading, which is the phase most investors wish they had caught in hindsight.

-5% to +11%

Modelled 12-month price range

+4.9%

Modelled 12-month rent change

Units · cycle position

Not enough unit sales in Hepburn for a reliable cycle reading. That's common outside the cities, and honest beats guessed.

The clock measures growth momentum, not price. Peak means growing fastest, not about to fall. See Hepburn on the clock.

The people

Who lives in Hepburn.

Population · ABS estimates

17,011

People (2025)

+0.8%

Growth per year, last 5 years

Steady growth. Not a boom town, not going backwards.

Households · Census 2021

52

Median age

$1,281

Median household income per week

81% own or are paying off their home, 15% rent. An owner-occupier market at heart, which tends to steady prices through the cycle.

New supply

What's being approved to build.

Building approvals are tomorrow's supply. A market where approvals are falling while population grows is a market where pressure builds. The reverse deserves caution.

Dwellings approved · ABS

FY24
102
FY25
159
FY26
105

103 of the latest year's approvals were houses. Approvals are roughly steady year to year.

Jobs and investment

Who's working, and what's being spent.

Jobs pay mortgages and rents. Government and commercial building spend is where future jobs come from: schools, hospitals, shops and factories all get approved before they get built.

Jobs · SALM, March 2026

8,354

Employed residents

2.9%

Unemployment (national 4.2%)

719 more residents are in work than five years ago (+9.4%). Steady jobs growth, in line with a healthy regional economy.

Non-residential building approved · ABS

$11m

All sectors, FY26

$822k

Public sector (government projects)

YearGovernmentAll non-residential
FY24 $405k $12m
FY25 $17m $27m
FY26 $822k $11m

Public building spend has been steady rather than surging. For the named projects behind these numbers, ask for the full report below.

Inside the LGA

The suburbs of Hepburn.

All 60 suburbs and localities in Hepburn

Allendale · Basalt · Blampied · Broomfield · Bullarto · Bullarto South · Cabbage Tree · Clunes · Clydesdale · Coomoora · Creswick · Creswick North · Daylesford · Dean · Denver · Drummond · Drummond North · Dry Diggings · Eganstown · Elevated Plains · Franklinford · Glengower · Glenlyon · Guildford · Hepburn · Hepburn Springs · Kingston · Kooroocheang · Langdons Hill · Lawrence · Leonards Hill · Little Hampton · Lyonville · Mollongghip · Mount Beckworth · Mount Franklin · Mount Prospect · Musk · Musk Vale · Newbury · Newlyn · Newlyn North · North Blackwood · Porcupine Ridge · Rocklyn · Sailors Falls · Sailors Hill · Shepherds Flat · Smeaton · Smokeytown · Spring Hill · Springmount · Strangways · Sulky · Trentham · Ullina · Wattle Flat · Werona · Wheatsheaf · Yandoit

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This page is the public data. The full report is the licensed feed: 10 years of prices, rents and vacancy over time, days on market, demand, and the supply pipeline, for Hepburn or any suburb in it. Same data we run for clients. I pull it and email it through, usually within a business day. No charge, and no 14-part email sequence after it.

General information only, not financial or investment advice. Cycle positions and projections are modelled LGA-level figures to July 2026 (licensed market analytics). Population and approvals are ABS estimates; employment is SALM smoothed data; income, age and tenure are Census 2021. None of it can see street quality, flood maps, zoning or the contract, which is where deals are actually won and lost. Get advice on your own situation before acting.

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