Box Hill
Box Hill is a suburb in Melbourne’s east, in the City of Whitehorse. Box Hill station is on the Lilydale line and the Belgrave line. It is the northern end of Suburban Rail Loop East. The loop includes a new underground station here. That station is not the station already operating, and it is not open. The northern stations package had not been signed when the Auditor-General’s report was tabled on 26 August 2026. The photograph is Main Street on 7 February 2025. A photograph of the existing concourse is in Suburban Rail Loop in 2026.
At the 2021 Census the Australian Bureau of Statistics counted 14,353 people usually living in Box Hill. The median age was 33. The Victorian median on the same release was 38. There were 7,777 private dwellings, with 2.2 people per household on average. The Victorian figure was 2.5. The median weekly household income was $1,267.
2021 Census
| People usually resident | 14,353 |
| Median age | 33 |
| Private dwellings | 7,777 |
| People per household | 2.2 |
| Median weekly household income | $1,267 |
These figures are for the suburb, not for the City of Whitehorse.
References
- 2021 Census QuickStats: Box Hill (SAL20314), Australian Bureau of Statistics. People, median age, dwellings, people per household, and median weekly household income. The geography is Suburbs and Localities. The Victorian median age on that page is 38, and the Victorian average household is 2.5 people.
- Delivering the Suburban Rail Loop, Victorian Auditor-General’s Office, tabled 26 August 2026. The stations contracts were unsigned.
- Photograph: Main Street looking west from Station Street, Box Hill, 7 February 2025, Philip Mallis, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.