8,006 of Bentleigh East's 10,802 homes are lived in by the people who own them: 74 in every 100, against 68 across Victoria. Doorstep is the neighbourhood app made for them.Download freeQuestions
| Bentleigh East | 74% | 8,006 | |
| Victoria | 68% | 1,631,388 | |
| Australia | 66% | 6,114,780 |
ABS 2021 Census of Population and Housing, tenure of occupied private dwellings, Bentleigh East (SAL). These are all homes in the suburb, not Doorstep members.
Couples, parents, kids and grandparents: in Bentleigh East, 77 in every 100 households are families. School runs and hand-me-downs for some, grandkids visiting for others, and the most useful neighbour is often the one who's been through it a year ahead of you.
74 in every 100 homes in Bentleigh East are lived in by their owners, against 68 across Victoria. Streets like that tend to stay put.
5,913 of Bentleigh East's owner-occupied homes are separate houses, with the gardens, fences, gutters and driveways that come with them. That's the stuff neighbours lend each other tools for, and swap tradie names about.
Give away what you don't need, borrow what you need once, and ask the street a question. Posts come from people who live around Bentleigh East.
A national gallery of kitchens, gardens and makeovers people are proud of. Show off yours, or steal ideas for the next one.
Ask who your neighbours would call, and find local businesses rated only by people who live nearby. Businesses in Bentleigh East →
A free listing for trades, cafés and shops that serve Bentleigh East, shown to the members who live nearby.
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8,006 of Bentleigh East's 10,802 occupied homes were owner-occupied at the 2021 Census (74%): 3,755 owned outright and 4,251 with a mortgage. Across Victoria the figure is 68%.
Yes. Doorstep works in every Australian suburb: you join by typing your home suburb, and Bentleigh East is one of them. Some streets are quieter than others while the area fills up.
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