East Bendigo VIC 3550

Living Here

East Bendigo is a suburb of Victoria, home to about 2,246 people, with a median age of 45. The typical household earns around $1,258 a week, with median rent near $295 a week. Most homes are houses. About 61% of households own their home and 37% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include English, Australian, Irish. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 4 of 10 nationally — a mid-range area. The median house sells for about $571,500.

Over time — Census 2001 → 2021

Dashed line: district figures for the East Bendigo - Kennington statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: East Bendigo itself.

Getting Around & Local Services

• 23 schools

  • Weeroona College Bendigo
  • St Therese's Primary School
  • Kennington Primary School
  • Doxa School Bendigo
  • St Kilian's Primary School
  • White Hills Primary School
  • Holy Rosary Primary School
  • Bendigo Senior Secondary College
  • Camp Hill Primary School
  • Kalianna School

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• 58 cafés & restaurants

  • Bridgewater Bakehouse
  • Coffee Co.
  • Favourite Flavours
  • The Boardwalk
  • Get Naked Espresso Bar
  • Bendigo Dumpling House
  • Lyttleton Terrace Takeaway
  • Vahlands Bistro
  • The Old Green Bean
  • Emperor's Dragon Restaurant

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• 8 supermarkets

  • Coles
  • Asian Grocery
  • Aldi
  • Asian Foods Emporium Grocery
  • Coles
  • Bendigo Wholefoods
  • IGA Stonemans Village
  • Woolworths
• 15 parks

  • Ross Park
  • Lake Weeroona Park
  • Hume & Iser Reserve
  • Harley Street Park
  • Amaroo Crescent Park
  • Figtree Lane Bushland Reserve
  • Ewing Park
  • Isabella Grove Bushland Reserve
  • Library Park
  • Rosalind Park

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• 4 Catholic churches

  • St Therese's Church
  • St Joseph's Catholic Church
  • St Liborius Catholic Church
  • St Monica's Church
• 5 pharmacies

  • White Hills Pharmacy
  • UFS
  • Health Smart Pharmacy
  • Arnold Street Pharmacy
  • Chemist Warehouse
• 8 doctors & medical clinics

  • Hearing Club
  • Women's Health Loddon Mallee
  • Goldfields Urology
  • Bendigo Primary Care Center
  • Dorevitch Pathology
  • Bendigo Eye Clinic
  • Birch Tree Psycology
  • Serious About Skin
• 4 dentists

  • Central Victorian Orthodontics - Bendigo Orthodontist
  • Whitehills Dental
  • Bendigo Smiles
  • National Dental Care McCrae Street
• 5 physiotherapists

  • Inform Physio Care
  • Healthy Mates Hydrotherapy and Physiotherapy Bendigo
  • The Wilson
  • Golden City Physiotherapy Clinc
  • fusion Physiotherapy
• 4 optometrists

  • Sunglass Hut
  • Cartwright & Associates Optometrists
  • OPSM
  • Wills Street Eyecare
• 5 hospitals

  • Bendigo Health
  • Emergency Department
  • Anne Caudle Campus
  • St John of God Bendigo Hospital
  • Bendigo Day Surgery
• 1 vet

  • Fur Life Vet
• 7 childcare & kindergartens

  • Helen Jessen Early Learning Centre
  • Neale Street North Kindergarten
  • Jenny's Early Learning
  • North Bendigo Preschool
  • White Hills Kindergarten
  • Shine Bright Kennington Kindergarten
  • Annie Galvin Early Learning Centre
• 1 library

  • Bendigo Library
• 4 post offices

  • White Hills LPO
  • Bendigo Post Office
  • Bendigo South LPO
  • Australia Post - Junortoun LPO
• 14 service stations

  • Liberty
  • BP - Bendigo
  • APCO - Strathdale
  • Shell
  • Ampol
  • Caltex
  • EG Ampol
  • EG Australia
  • Mobil
  • BP

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• 18 gyms & sports centres

  • Bendigo Rowing Club
  • Bendigo Tennis Association
  • Wellsford Rifle Range
  • Tom Flood Sports Centre
  • Fernwood Fitness
  • Feelgood Fitness Strathdale
  • Keiser
  • Body Fit Training Bendigo
  • It's her gym
  • Bendigo Bowls Club

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• 3 golf clubs

  • Bendigo Golf Club
  • Quarry Hill Golf Course
  • Neangar Park Golf Course
• 2 playgrounds

  • Cliff Avenue Playspace
  • Lake Weeroona Playground
• 1 dog park

  • Harcourt Park
• 3 bakeries

  • Strath Hill Hot Bake
  • Bakers Delight
  • George's Bakehouse Kennington
• 2 butchers

  • The Erindale Farm Butchery
  • Flora Hill Quality Meats
• 7 hardware stores

  • Mitre 10
  • The Bendigo Lighthouse
  • Reilly's Designer Appliances
  • Bendigo Trailers & Hardware
  • CV Bearings
  • Bunnings Warehouse
  • Delecca's Machine Sales
• 18 hairdressers

  • Royal Jims
  • Royal Jims Barber | Strathdale
  • Honeyeater
  • Pura Veeda Hair & Body
  • ehb
  • Jacs Salon
  • Neon Peach
  • Royal Jims Barber
  • Red Raven studio
  • Lone wolf barbershop

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• 2 beauty salons

  • Jools For Jim
  • Wax Gallery
• 11 mechanics

  • Sandhurst Automotive
  • Goodyear Autocare
  • Sherlock Mechanical
  • Santons of Bendigo
  • Myers Street Auto Repairs
  • Bendigo Dyno Tuning
  • Bendigo Complete Auto Care
  • HG Automotive
  • Jamie Hackett Motors
  • H & V Pearce

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• 23 places to stay

  • All Seasons Resort Hotel Bendigo
  • Golden Reef Motor Inn
  • Crystal Inn
  • Bendigo McIvor Motor Inn
  • Schaller Hotel
  • Specimen Cottage
  • Big 4 Bendigo Ascot Holiday Park
  • Brougham Arms Motel
  • Shamrock Hotel
  • Allara Motor Lodge

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Getting around. Train station: Bendigo, 3 km south-west · Tram stop: Stop 4: Lake Weeroona, 1.7 km west · Bus interchange: Bendigo Station/Railway Pl, 2.9 km south-west · Airport: Bendigo Airport, 2.3 km north-east.

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Sport & Recreation

5 facilities recorded in East Bendigo.

• ASM Fitness Fitness / Gymnasium Workouts
• Bendigo East Bowling Club Lawn Bowls
• Bendigo East Swimming Pool Swimming
• Bendigo Skate Park BMX, Skating
• Mayfair Park Cycling

Socio-economic Standing

Deciles from 1 (lowest) to 10 (highest), against all Australian suburbs. The overall figure weighs advantage and disadvantage together; economic resources counts income and housing, and education & jobs counts qualifications and occupation. They often differ. Source: ABS SEIFA 2021.

Median Sale Prices

Median of recorded sales in the period, not a valuation. Source: Victorian Property Sales Report, Land Use Victoria.

Tree cover

🌳 Tree canopy: 17.8% share of land under canopy · satellite map, 2020

Green: 10 m cells where trees dominate, satellite 2021. Blue: water. The line is the suburb boundary.

Demographics

Unemployment 4.5% · Labour-force participation 54.6%

Birds & Wildlife Nearby

27,335 bird observations recorded near East Bendigo — most often seen:

• Australian Magpie (1,652)
• Magpie-lark (1,463)
• Red Wattlebird (1,408)
• Galah (1,405)
• Noisy Miner (1,263)
• Crested Pigeon (1,208)
• Little Raven (1,155)
• Pacific Black Duck (1,123)
• Eastern Rosella (1,056)
• Eurasian Blackbird (1,018)
• Dusky Moorhen (974)
• Australian Wood Duck (938)
• House Sparrow (927)

Sightings reported by observers, not a survey, so the counts show what people record rather than what lives here. Source: Atlas of Living Australia.

Nearby Suburbs

The closest suburbs to East Bendigo:

• Strathdale (2 km)
• White Hills (2.2 km)
• Kennington (2.4 km)
• North Bendigo (2.6 km)
• Bendigo (2.9 km)
• Flora Hill (3.6 km)
• Quarry Hill (3.7 km)
• Ironbark (4.1 km)

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