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What it costs to live in Golden Plains, VIC
Golden Plains council area, Victoria. About 26,620 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 Golden Plains on its own.
See what we knowElectricity
$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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Crimes against the person, 2025–26
Police recorded 129 of these in Golden Plains. That's 478 for every 100,000 people, or 46% of the VIC average. Five years before, in 2020–21, it was 386, so it has gone up 24%.
See each year
| Year | Recorded | Per 100,000 | VIC per 100,000 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025–26 | 129 | 478 | 1,040 |
| 2024–25 | 112 | 421 | 1,067 |
| 2023–24 | 121 | 462 | 998 |
| 2022–23 | 91 | 354 | 974 |
| 2021–22 | 94 | 372 | 968 |
| 2020–21 | 96 | 386 | 987 |
| 2019–20 | 96 | 394 | 976 |
| 2018–19 | 90 | 378 | 965 |
| 2017–18 | 94 | 405 | 951 |
| 2016–17 | 87 | 385 | 956 |
Property and deception offences, 2025–26
Police recorded 410 of these in Golden Plains. That's 1,520 for every 100,000 people, or 37% of the VIC average. Five years before, in 2020–21, it was 1,073, so it has gone up 42%.
See each year
| Year | Recorded | Per 100,000 | VIC per 100,000 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025–26 | 410 | 1,520 | 4,071 |
| 2024–25 | 460 | 1,728 | 4,459 |
| 2023–24 | 362 | 1,381 | 3,612 |
| 2022–23 | 298 | 1,159 | 3,148 |
| 2021–22 | 292 | 1,157 | 2,776 |
| 2020–21 | 267 | 1,073 | 2,929 |
| 2019–20 | 317 | 1,301 | 3,677 |
| 2018–19 | 321 | 1,348 | 3,547 |
| 2017–18 | 323 | 1,393 | 3,625 |
| 2016–17 | 365 | 1,614 | 4,065 |
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 Golden Plains
Who lives in each one, their homes and how they get around.
- Anakie (part)
- Bamganie
- Bannockburn
- Barunah Park
- Batesford (part)
- Berringa
- Cambrian Hill
- Cape Clear
- Corindhap
- Cressy (part)
- Dereel
- Durdidwarrah
- Durham Lead (part)
- Enfield
- Garibaldi
- Gheringhap
- Grenville (part)
- Haddon
- Happy Valley (Golden Plains - Vic.)
- Hesse
- Illabarook
- Inverleigh
- Lethbridge
- Linton (part)
- Mannibadar
- Maude
- Meredith
- Mount Mercer
- Murgheboluc
- Napoleons
- Newtown (Golden Plains - Vic.)
- Nintingbool
- Piggoreet
- Pitfield
- Pittong (part)
- Rokewood
- Rokewood Junction
- Ross Creek
- Russells Bridge
- Scarsdale
- She Oaks
- Shelford
- Smythes Creek (part)
- Smythesdale
- Springdallah
- Staffordshire Reef
- Steiglitz
- Stonehaven
- Sutherlands Creek
- Teesdale
- Wallinduc
- Werneth (part)
- Willowvale
- Wingeel (part)
Look further
- Rents across Australia: what tenants really pay by suburb and postcode.
- Pokies losses by council: where the most is lost, in four states.
- Fuel prices: the price cycle and the cheapest day to fill up.
- Compare Golden Plains with another area, side by side.
- Look up another area.
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.