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What it costs to live in Wellington, VIC

Wellington council area, Victoria. About 46,551 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

$725

Lost for every adult in a year. That's 1.3 times the VIC average.

See pokies losses in Wellington

Electricity

$1,748

A year on the default offer in the AusNet Services network area, for 4,000 kWh. That's the most a standing offer can cost. A typical plan here costs $1,625.

See electricity prices

Crime police recorded

Crimes against the person, 2025–26

Wellington2,047
VIC average1,040

Police recorded 958 of these in Wellington. That's 2,047 for every 100,000 people, or 2.0 times the VIC average. Five years before, in 2020–21, it was 1,762, so it has gone up 16%.

See each year
YearRecordedPer 100,000VIC per 100,000
2025–269582,0471,040
2024–259181,9721,067
2023–248161,763998
2022–238591,870974
2021–227981,747968
2020–218011,762987
2019–208001,774976
2018–197341,643965
2017–185841,320951
2016–176781,545956

Property and deception offences, 2025–26

Wellington4,088
VIC average4,071

Police recorded 1,913 of these in Wellington. That's 4,088 for every 100,000 people, or about the VIC average. Five years before, in 2020–21, it was 2,602, so it has gone up 57%.

See each year
YearRecordedPer 100,000VIC per 100,000
2025–261,9134,0884,071
2024–251,8493,9724,459
2023–241,3722,9653,612
2022–231,2192,6543,148
2021–221,2812,8042,776
2020–211,1832,6022,929
2019–201,4513,2173,677
2018–191,3833,0963,547
2017–181,4253,2223,625
2016–171,5033,4264,065

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 Wellington

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.