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What it costs to live in Greater Bendigo, VIC

Greater Bendigo council area, Victoria. About 126,568 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

$613

Lost for every adult in a year. That's about the VIC average.

See pokies losses in Greater Bendigo

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.

See electricity prices

Crime police recorded

Crimes against the person, 2025–26

Greater Bendigo1,437
VIC average1,040

Police recorded 1,838 of these in Greater Bendigo. That's 1,437 for every 100,000 people, or 1.4 times the VIC average. Five years before, in 2020–21, it was 1,237, so it has gone up 16%.

See each year
YearRecordedPer 100,000VIC per 100,000
2025–261,8381,4371,040
2024–251,7951,4181,067
2023–241,5881,267998
2022–231,5331,238974
2021–221,5101,233968
2020–211,5001,237987
2019–201,3391,116976
2018–191,3951,180965
2017–181,2831,104951
2016–171,2641,106956

Property and deception offences, 2025–26

Greater Bendigo3,139
VIC average4,071

Police recorded 4,016 of these in Greater Bendigo. That's 3,139 for every 100,000 people, or 77% of the VIC average. Five years before, in 2020–21, it was 3,131, so it's about the same.

See each year
YearRecordedPer 100,000VIC per 100,000
2025–264,0163,1394,071
2024–255,1744,0884,459
2023–244,5943,6673,612
2022–234,1493,3523,148
2021–223,6192,9562,776
2020–213,7973,1312,929
2019–204,4793,7343,677
2018–194,6053,8953,547
2017–183,7383,2173,625
2016–174,3993,8504,065

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 Greater Bendigo

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.