Safety Beach VIC 3936

Living Here

Safety Beach is a suburb of Victoria, home to about 6,328 people, with a median age of 53. The typical household earns around $1,468 a week, with median rent near $460 a week. Most homes are houses. About 72% of households own their home and 24% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include English, Australian, Irish. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 7 of 10 nationally — a mid-range area. The median house sells for about $1,200,000.

Over time — Census 2001 → 2021

Dashed line: district figures for the Dromana statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Safety Beach itself.

Getting Around & Local Services

• 2 schools

  • Dromana Primary School
  • Mount Martha Primary School
• 6 cafés & restaurants

  • Provincia
  • Martha's Table
  • Mintaro
  • Kacha Thai Restaurant
  • Tandoor Mahal
  • Dromana Dumpling
• 1 supermarket

  • ALDI
• 1 park

  • Catalina Avenue Reserve
• 3 beaches

  • Safety Beach
  • Tassells Cove Dog Beach
  • Dromana Beach
• 1 Catholic church

  • Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church Dromana
• 1 pharmacy

  • Chemist Warehouse
• 1 dentist

  • Dromana Dental Clinic
• 1 optometrist

  • Eyes On Dromana
• 5 hospitals

  • The Mornington Centre
  • The Bays Cancer Care Centre
  • The Bays Hospital
  • Rosebud Hospital
  • Beleura Private Hospital
• 1 post office

  • Australia Post Dromana
• 2 service stations

  • BP
  • 7-Eleven
• 3 golf clubs

  • Safety Beach Golf Club
  • Mount Martha Public Golf Course
  • Bay Views Golf Course
• 1 dog park

  • Mount Martha Community Forest
• 1 hairdresser

  • Michelle Jane Hair
• 2 plumbers

  • Reece Plumbing
  • McDonald Plumbing
• 3 places to stay

  • Peninsula Holiday Park
  • Bay Motel Safety Beach
  • Dromana Beach Getaway Hotel

Getting around. Airport: Moorabbin Airport, 38.5 km north.

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Sport & Recreation

2 facilities recorded in Safety Beach.

• Safety Beach Golf Club (mt Martha Country Club) Golf
• Safety Beach Sailing Club Sailing

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: 9.3% 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 3.2% · Labour-force participation 52.5%

Birds & Wildlife Nearby

15,635 bird observations recorded near Safety Beach — most often seen:

• Little Raven (912)
• Eurasian Blackbird (896)
• Noisy Miner (895)
• Rainbow Lorikeet (855)
• Silver Gull (796)
• Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (752)
• Australian Magpie (722)
• Red Wattlebird (688)
• Common Starling (644)
• Welcome Swallow (641)
• Magpie-lark (635)
• Spotted Turtle-dove (581)
• Grey Butcherbird (566)

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 Safety Beach:

• Dromana (3.2 km)
• Arthurs Seat (5.8 km)
• Red Hill (6.1 km)
• Mount Martha (6.1 km)
• Mccrae (7.3 km)
• Merricks North (7.8 km)
• Red Hill South (8.4 km)
• Main Ridge (9.5 km)

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