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What it costs to live in Baw Baw, VIC

Baw Baw council area, Victoria. About 62,784 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

$442

Lost for every adult in a year. That's 78% of the VIC average.

See pokies losses in Baw Baw

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

Baw Baw1,199
VIC average1,040

Police recorded 768 of these in Baw Baw. That's 1,199 for every 100,000 people, or 1.2 times the VIC average. Five years before, in 2020–21, it was 1,255, so it's about the same.

See each year
YearRecordedPer 100,000VIC per 100,000
2025–267681,1991,040
2024–258421,3411,067
2023–247691,244998
2022–237321,208974
2021–227531,271968
2020–217231,255987
2019–205821,044976
2018–196161,140965
2017–186511,241951
2016–175691,118956

Property and deception offences, 2025–26

Baw Baw3,143
VIC average4,071

Police recorded 2,013 of these in Baw Baw. That's 3,143 for every 100,000 people, or 77% of the VIC average. Five years before, in 2020–21, it was 2,397, so it has gone up 31%.

See each year
YearRecordedPer 100,000VIC per 100,000
2025–262,0133,1434,071
2024–252,1043,3514,459
2023–241,6242,6283,612
2022–231,3812,2803,148
2021–221,2072,0372,776
2020–211,3812,3972,929
2019–201,9153,4353,677
2018–191,8923,5013,547
2017–181,6243,0963,625
2016–171,5333,0134,065

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 Baw Baw

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.