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What it costs to live in Buloke, VIC

Buloke council area, Victoria. About 5,887 people lived here in 2025. Here's what rent, power, the pokies and crime look like, and how each one sits against the rest of Victoria.

Rent

Victoria doesn't publish new-lease rents by council in a form we can use yet.

Pokies losses

The regulator reports this area with its neighbours, or kept some months private, so there's no figure for Buloke on its own.

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Electricity

$1,633

A year on the default offer in the Powercor network area, for 4,000 kWh. That's the most a standing offer can cost. A typical plan here costs $1,518.

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Crime police recorded

Crimes against the person, 2025–26

Buloke786
VIC average1,040

Police recorded 46 of these in Buloke. That's 786 for every 100,000 people, or 76% of the VIC average. Five years before, in 2020–21, it was 864, so it has come down 9%.

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YearRecordedPer 100,000VIC per 100,000
2025–26467861,040
2024–25366121,067
2023–2444743998
2022–2340665974
2021–2247770968
2020–2153864987
2019–2045731976
2018–1939633965
2017–1843692951
2016–1743691956

Property and deception offences, 2025–26

Buloke3,180
VIC average4,071

Police recorded 186 of these in Buloke. That's 3,180 for every 100,000 people, or 78% of the VIC average. Five years before, in 2020–21, it was 1,386, so it has gone up 129%.

See each year
YearRecordedPer 100,000VIC per 100,000
2025–261863,1804,071
2024–251272,1574,459
2023–241011,7063,612
2022–231001,6633,148
2021–22901,4752,776
2020–21851,3862,929
2019–201512,4533,677
2018–191051,7033,547
2017–181031,6583,625
2016–17651,0454,065

This is crime that police recorded in the area over a year, July to June. Lots of crime is never reported, and a rise can mean police are looking harder, not just that more crime happened. Each state counts crime its own way, so only compare a council with its own state. Victoria rounds very small numbers of homicide and sexual offences.

Suburbs in Buloke

Who lives in each one, their homes and how they get around.

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Sources: recorded crime, Crime Statistics Agency, CC BY 4.0. Population: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Regional population, CC BY 4.0. Pokies losses: the state's gambling regulator (see the pokies page for its credit). Electricity: Victorian Default Offer 2026–27: Essential Services Commission, CC BY 4.0; retailers' plans under the Consumer Data Right.