Mount Franklin VIC 3461
66 addresses · 11 streets
Ballarat Electorate › Hepburn LGA › Mount Franklin · 94 km from Melbourne
Living Here
Mount Franklin is a suburb of Victoria, home to about 99 people, with a median age of 49. The typical household earns around $2,583 a week, with median rent near $190 a week. Most homes are houses. About 100% of households own their home and 0% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include Australian, English, Irish. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 8 of 10 nationally — a relatively advantaged area.
Over time — Census 2001 → 2021
Dashed line: district figures for the Daylesford statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Mount Franklin itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
1 café or restaurant
1 Catholic church
1 hospital
1 golf club
3 places to stay
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.
Tree cover
🌳 Tree canopy: 37.9% 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.
| Canopy share, 1 m canopy height map, 2020 | 37.9% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 44.3% |
Demographics
Unemployment 3.6% · Labour-force participation 70%
Population by age in Mount Franklin
| 0-4 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 15 |
| 15-19 | 5 |
| 20-24 | 5 |
| 25-34 | 4 |
| 35-44 | 18 |
| 45-54 | 27 |
| 55-64 | 19 |
| 65-74 | 4 |
| 75-84 | 5 |
| 85+ | 0 |
Dwelling types in Mount Franklin
| House | 33 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Households by weekly income in Mount Franklin
| <$650 | 3 |
|---|---|
| $650-1,499 | 7 |
| $1,500-2,999 | 0 |
| $3,000+ | 8 |
Top ancestries in Mount Franklin
| Australian | 41 |
|---|---|
| English | 38 |
| Irish | 12 |
| Italian | 11 |
| Scottish | 11 |
| German | 7 |
Housing tenure in Mount Franklin
| Owned | 20 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 12 |
| Rented | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Cars per household in Mount Franklin
| 0 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 7 |
| 2 | 19 |
| 3 | 8 |
| 4+ | 3 |
Commute to work in Mount Franklin
| Car | 33 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 3 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 21 |
Top countries of birth in Mount Franklin
| New Zealand | 4 |
|---|
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
6,820 bird observations recorded near Mount Franklin — most often seen:
- Crimson Rosella (512)
- Australian Magpie (395)
- Red Wattlebird (382)
- Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (360)
- Superb Fairy-wren (355)
- Long-billed Corella (328)
- Eastern Spinebill (268)
- Pied Currawong (266)
- Laughing Kookaburra (264)
- Australian Wood Duck (248)
- Little Raven (243)
- Brown Thornbill (232)
- Yellow-faced Honeyeater (228)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Mount Franklin
- Grey Fantail (217)
- Galah (201)
- Grey Shrike-thrush (192)
- White-throated Treecreeper (192)
- Spotted Pardalote (178)
- White-naped Honeyeater (177)
- Striated Pardalote (173)
- White-browed Scrubwren (161)
- New Holland Honeyeater (160)
- Welcome Swallow (160)
- White-eared Honeyeater (159)
- White-winged Chough (156)
- Pacific Black Duck (129)
- Australian King-parrot (127)
- Yellow-tailed Black-cockatoo (122)
- House Sparrow (118)
- Striated Thornbill (117)
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 Mount Franklin:
- Dry Diggings (3.3 km)
- Shepherds Flat (3.6 km)
- Elevated Plains (3.7 km)
- Porcupine Ridge (4.1 km)
- Hepburn (5.3 km)
- Hepburn Springs (5.7 km)
- Franklinford (5.8 km)
- Basalt (7.1 km)
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Streets
- Church Road (11)
- Leslies Road (17)
- Lewis Lane (2)
- Midland Highway (13)
- Mount Franklin Road (1)
- Phillips Road (1)
- Potter Lane (3)
- Powells Lane (5)
- Sawpit Gully Road (11)
- Sawpit Track (1)
- Western Avenue (1)
