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Baw Baw LGA · VIC
For an investor,
A read of Drouin West'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 fair yield (4.2% gross); the watch-out is high crime risk.
Suburb highlights
How Drouin West'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.
“Premium” means desirable but costly to enter, not a negative.
Drouin West ranks 6th of 6 among its Baw Baw peers on the Suburb Score for a balanced buyer.
| Suburb | Score | Median | 5-yr growth | Yield | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fumina | A · 79 | — | — | 4.1% | Very safe |
| Lillico | A · 77 | — | — | 4.1% | Very safe |
| Ferndale | A · 70 | — | — | 3.1% | Very safe |
| Drouin WestThis suburb | C · 46 | — | — | 4.2% | High activity |
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.
How to read these numbers
The call above is yours, free. The report goes the next mile — your numbers run on the Drouin West median, tuned to your goal, in one document to take to inspections.
Weak fundamentals for a balanced focus — 46/100.
Capital growth data isn't available for this suburb, so it's excluded and the other weights are rebalanced.
A 4.2% gross house yield maps to 64/100 on the yield scale.
Affordability data isn't available for this suburb, so it's excluded and the other weights are rebalanced.
Safety score of 18/100 — a VIC-wide percentile of reported offences (higher = safer).
4 funded projects (~$356M) across the whole council area. Ranked by investment per resident, this LGA sits in the top 29% of VIC for infrastructure spend (71/100). Applies to every suburb in the LGA, not just this one.
Our verdict
A mixed pick for a balanced focusEvery figure on Drouin West'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 Drouin WestFree 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. Drouin West grew +44% between 2013 and 2023, and is projected +52% more by 2036.
Blended from Drouin West's ABS SA2 statistical areas — area estimates, not suburb-exact.
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.
Largest by enrolment · 2024.
The figures behind the Suburb Score — rental vacancy (2025); under ~2% is a tight market.
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