Werribee (3030) sits approximately 32 kilometres south-west of Melbourne's CBD within the City of Wyndham, functioning as the administrative and commercial centre of one of Australia's fastest-growing local government areas. Its SEIFA IRSAD score of 1016 places it in decile 7 of 10 nationally and at the 66th percentile within Victoria, a reading that sits modestly above the national mean of 1000. That positions Werribee in the advantaged band, though not at the upper end of it. For investors, the score signals a suburb that has moved beyond the most disadvantaged tier without yet reaching the premium-income profile of Melbourne's established middle-ring corridors.
ABS 2021 IRSAD release. Score 1016 (national mean = 1000).
A SEIFA IRSAD score of 1016 reflects a community where household incomes, educational attainment, and occupational mix sit slightly above the national average. Within PropertyRanker's twelve-signal model, this reading feeds directly into three criteria: economic_strength, hazard_risk, and entry_point_risk. On economic_strength, a decile 7 reading suggests a workforce base with reasonable stability, though the suburb still carries pockets of income diversity that investors should weigh against rental demand assumptions. On hazard_risk, mid-range SEIFA areas tend to correlate with moderate rather than elevated socioeconomic stress, which is a positive input, but SEIFA cannot substitute for a flood overlay check or a bushfire assessment on a specific parcel. On entry_point_risk, a score above the national mean in a high-growth corridor like Wyndham can indicate that land values have already absorbed some of the growth premium, meaning the margin of safety on entry price deserves scrutiny at the listing level. Werribee's position as the administrative centre of Wyndham, its rail connection to the CBD, and its role as a service hub for surrounding greenfield suburbs all support the economic_strength reading. However, SEIFA is a postcode-level average. It cannot distinguish a well-located established street from a new-estate fringe lot, nor can it see strata levies, build quality, or vacancy trends. A decile 7 reading is consistent with a Balanced or Capital Growth strategy profile, where gross yield anchors of around 5 percent or 3.5 percent respectively are the relevant benchmarks, but the specific listing must be tested against current comparable sales before any strategy match is confirmed.
Werribee (VIC 3030) recorded a median house sale price of approximately $650,000 as of mid-2026, reflecting annual growth of around 6.2% to 8.3% depending on the source, with propertyvalue.com.au (CoreLogic/Cotality data) and Woodards both citing $650,000. Sales volume reached 1,094 to 1,266 houses over the past 12 months, up roughly 3% year-on-year per Woodards, while propertyvalue.com.au reported an average vendor discount of -3.5% and average days on market of 25 days. HtAG Analytics noted stock on market at just 0.36% and inventory at 2.25 months, well below the balanced-market threshold, consistent with a supply-constrained, capital-led market.
Anchor points pulled per refresh from publicly available suburb profiles. Approximate; not a moving average.
Stock on market is very low at 0.36% and days on market have shortened by 14% year-on-year, pointing to tightening supply and demand conditions, while vendor discounting at -3.5% is moderate and directionally stable.
Sources: Werribee VIC 3030 Property Market and House Prices 2026 - HtAG Analytics (2026-08-04); Werribee VIC 3030 Suburb Profile & Property Report - Your Investment Property Mag (CoreLogic) (2026-07-28); Werribee House Prices & Property Trends - PropertyValue.com.au (2026-01-01); Werribee VIC Property Market & House Prices - Woodards (2026-01-01); Werribee Property Market and Trends - OpenAgent (2026-07-22) · Refreshed 18 Sep 2026
PropertyRanker scores any Australian property against 12 criteria across three pillars: Growth, Cashflow, and Risk. SEIFA is a primary signal for economic strength and a supporting one for entry-price risk. It also informs the crime side of hazard risk, though physical overlays like flood, bushfire and coastal exposure, and recorded crime data where available, take priority there. The decile of 7 shown above gives a listing in Werribee a stronger starting line on economic strength than the national median postcode, and a softer one on entry-price risk, since more advantaged postcodes usually carry higher entry prices.
On top of that, PropertyRanker chooses one of four strategies (Balanced, Growth, Yield, Regional) and applies a per-strategy yield anchor. The anchors are 3.5% for Growth, 5% for Balanced, 6% for Yield, and 7% for Regional. A postcode at this level of relative advantage tends to suit the Growth (3.5% anchor) and Balanced (5% anchor) strategies more readily than Yield (6%) or Regional (7%), because a higher entry price compresses the gross yield a listing can reach without a specific value-add.
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SEIFA is a postcode-level read. The fastest sanity check on any single decile reading is to compare it against the suburbs that surround it.
Before treating this SEIFA reading as a buy signal, investors should confirm several things at the listing level. First, check the current SQM Research vacancy rate for postcode 3030; Wyndham's rapid supply pipeline means vacancy can shift faster than the macro score implies. Second, obtain a full flood and planning overlay report for the specific parcel, as parts of the Werribee River corridor carry inundation risk that a suburb-level score cannot capture. Third, if the property is a unit or townhouse, review body corporate financials and the sinking fund balance, because SEIFA says nothing about strata health. Fourth, price the listing against recent comparable sales within the same street type and land size, not just the suburb median, since Werribee contains both established heritage pockets and new-estate lots that trade at materially different yields. Finally, run the specific listing through PropertyRanker to receive a verdict that accounts for all twelve signals, including the factors a postcode-level SEIFA reading cannot see.
Werribee's SEIFA IRSAD score of 1016 places it at decile 7 of 10 nationally and the 66th percentile within Victoria, sitting in the advantaged band but not at the upper end of it. That reading signals a suburb that has moved beyond the most disadvantaged tier, with household incomes, educational attainment, and occupational mix slightly above the national average. Whether a specific listing suits investment depends on how the property scores across all twelve of PropertyRanker's signals, not on SEIFA alone. The score is a useful starting signal, not a verdict.
A decile 7 SEIFA reading in an outer-growth corridor like Wyndham is most consistent with a Balanced strategy (gross yield anchor around 5 percent) or a Capital Growth strategy (around 3.5 percent), given the suburb's role as an administrative and service hub with a confirmed rail connection to the CBD via the Metro Werribee line to Flinders Street. The Balanced profile accounts for the income diversity that still exists within the postcode, while Capital Growth suits well-located established stock closer to the town centre. High Yield and Regional strategies carry higher yield anchors and would require the listing-level data to confirm that rental returns genuinely support those thresholds before a strategy match is valid.
On entry_point_risk, a SEIFA score above the national mean in one of Australia's fastest-growing local government areas suggests that land values may have already absorbed part of the growth premium, so the margin of safety at any given entry price deserves careful scrutiny at the listing level. On hazard_risk, the Werribee River and Lollypop Creek catchments within the Wyndham municipality carry documented flood histories, and Wyndham City Council's planning scheme includes flood overlay controls on certain parcels, meaning a flood overlay check via Land Vic is a non-negotiable step before assessing any specific property. SEIFA cannot see physical hazards at the parcel level, so PropertyRanker's hazard_risk signal should be read alongside a site-specific overlay search.
PropertyRanker feeds Werribee's SEIFA IRSAD reading into three of its twelve scoring criteria: economic_strength, hazard_risk, and entry_point_risk. On economic_strength, the decile 7 reading suggests a reasonably stable workforce base while also flagging the pockets of income diversity that affect rental demand assumptions. On hazard_risk, mid-range SEIFA areas tend to correlate with moderate rather than elevated socioeconomic stress, which is a positive input, but it cannot replace a physical hazard or flood overlay check for the specific parcel. On entry_point_risk, the score above the national mean prompts scrutiny of whether the listing price reflects fair value relative to current comparable sales.
No. SEIFA is calculated at the postcode level, so the score of 1016 represents an average across the entire 3030 catchment and cannot distinguish a well-located established street near the town centre from a new-estate fringe lot on the outer edge of the postcode. A new greenfield lot and a heritage home near the Werribee train station both carry the same SEIFA input in the model, even though their rental demand, build quality, strata exposure, and vacancy dynamics can differ significantly. Scoring the specific listing on PropertyRanker, rather than relying on the postcode average, is the only way to capture those differences.
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