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What it costs to live in Southern Grampians, VIC

Southern Grampians council area, Victoria. About 16,483 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

$543

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

See pokies losses in Southern Grampians

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

Southern Grampians1,438
VIC average1,040

Police recorded 237 of these in Southern Grampians. That's 1,438 for every 100,000 people, or 1.4 times the VIC average. Five years before, in 2020–21, it was 1,219, so it has gone up 18%.

See each year
YearRecordedPer 100,000VIC per 100,000
2025–262371,4381,040
2024–252291,3891,067
2023–242791,696998
2022–231981,207974
2021–222051,254968
2020–212011,219987
2019–201691,024976
2018–192141,307965
2017–181871,148951
2016–171991,228956

Property and deception offences, 2025–26

Southern Grampians2,281
VIC average4,071

Police recorded 376 of these in Southern Grampians. That's 2,281 for every 100,000 people, or 56% of the VIC average. Five years before, in 2020–21, it was 1,625, so it has gone up 40%.

See each year
YearRecordedPer 100,000VIC per 100,000
2025–263762,2814,071
2024–254102,4874,459
2023–243922,3833,612
2022–232831,7253,148
2021–222681,6392,776
2020–212681,6252,929
2019–203942,3873,677
2018–193482,1253,547
2017–184812,9533,625
2016–174232,6104,065

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 Southern Grampians

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

Look further

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.