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Alpine LGA · VIC
For an investor,
A read of Dinner Plain's fundamentals as they stand — not a price forecast. The scorecard below rates each factor so you can weigh the ones that matter to you.
The draw is strong growth (+135% / ~5 yrs); the watch-out is weak yield (2.6% gross).
The bigger picture
How Dinner Plain's metrics connect, ordered for the selected buyer — derived from the figures above, not a forecast.
The overall Suburb Score, then each category on its own scale — weigh the ones that matter to you.
Each category is rated on its own scale — weigh the ones that matter to you. “Premium” means desirable but costly to enter, not a negative.
Dinner Plain ranks 4th of 6 among its Alpine peers on the Suburb Score for a balanced buyer.
| Suburb | Score | Median | 5-yr growth | Yield | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Buffalo | A · 93 | — | — | — | Very safe |
| Kergunyah South | A · 82 | — | — | 4.4% | Very safe |
| Buckland | A · 68 | — | — | 3.4% | Very safe |
| Dinner PlainThis suburb | A · 66 | $1.2m | +135% | 2.6% | Very safe |
| Smoko | A · 65 | — | — | 3.3% | Very safe |
| Merriang | A · 63 | — | — | 3.1% | Very safe |
Peers are same-LGA suburbs from the safety roster, scored on the same Suburb Score (a balanced weighting). For context, the VIC benchmark median is ~$780k.
What could go wrong
We surface the downside on purpose — most tools only show the upside. Observations from the data we hold, not advice.
The call above is yours, free. The report goes the next mile — your numbers run on the Dinner Plain median, tuned to your goal, in one document to take to inspections.
Solid fundamentals for a balanced focus — 66/100.
A 5-year median-price change of +135% maps to 100/100 on the growth scale.
A 2.6% gross house yield maps to 31/100 on the yield scale.
A median of $1200k against the ~$780k VIC benchmark maps to 34/100.
Safety score of 87/100 — a VIC-wide percentile of reported offences (higher = safer).
Infrastructure (LGA-wide) data isn't available for this suburb, so it's excluded and the other weights are rebalanced.
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Our verdict
A reasonable fit for a balanced focusEvery figure on Dinner Plain's page comes from free, public government data — no scraped listings. Some datasets carry a reporting lag (e.g. Census is 2021, ABS releases settle a quarter behind), so read them as a considered starting point, not live quotes.
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Ask AI about Dinner PlainFree government data, each metric at its latest available year — see full sources & licensing. Indicative only; not financial or safety advice.
Population growth is the clearest leading indicator of housing demand. Dinner Plain grew +11% between 2013 and 2023, and is projected +8% more by 2036.
Blended from Dinner Plain's ABS SA2 statistical areas — area estimates, not suburb-exact.
Source: ABS 2021 Census, suburb level. Median household income is gross (before tax). Affordability is median rent/mortgage against the suburb's median household income — a comparative guide, not a household-level stress rate.
Government & non-government schools located in Dinner Plain (2024), largest by enrolment.
Median sale price by property type and size, 2023; the chart shows the yearly median trend. Yield is gross rental yield.
Median house price, five-year capital growth and gross rental yield — plus rental vacancy (2025); under ~2% is a tight rental market — the figures behind the Suburb Score below.