4,647 of South Yarra's 13,082 homes are lived in by the people who own them: 36 in every 100, against 68 across Victoria. Doorstep is the neighbourhood app made for them.Download freeQuestions
| South Yarra | 36% | 4,647 | |
| Victoria | 68% | 1,631,388 | |
| Australia | 66% | 6,114,780 |
ABS 2021 Census of Population and Housing, tenure of occupied private dwellings, South Yarra (SAL). These are all homes in the suburb, not Doorstep members.
Median age 33. South Yarra skews younger: first homes, first renovations, and a lot of people still working out who's who on the street.
Owners still paying it off are often the newer faces in South Yarra: the households asking who does good gutters, where the kids play weekend sport, and whether anyone has a ladder long enough for the second storey.
6,452 households in South Yarra are a single person. A neighbour who'll take in a parcel, feed the cat or check in after a storm matters more than any app feature. Doorstep is just how you find them.
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 South Yarra.
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 South Yarra →
A free listing for trades, cafés and shops that serve South Yarra, shown to the members who live nearby.
Doorstep Dating is a separate side of the app for meeting other homeowners. It's off until you switch it on.
4,647 of South Yarra's 13,082 occupied homes were owner-occupied at the 2021 Census (36%): 2,334 owned outright and 2,313 with a mortgage. Across Victoria the figure is 68%.
Yes. Doorstep works in every Australian suburb: you join by typing your home suburb, and South Yarra is one of them. Some streets are quieter than others while the area fills up.
No. Doorstep only stores the name of your suburb. There's no GPS involved, and nobody sees your street or address.
Free on the App Store. Type your suburb when you join; nobody ever sees your address.