Cheltenham
Cheltenham is a suburb in Melbourne’s south-east, in the City of Kingston. Cheltenham station is on the Frankston line. Suburban Rail Loop East starts here, with a new underground station. That station is not the Frankston line station in the photograph, and it is not open. The southern stations package had not been signed when the Auditor-General’s report was tabled on 26 August 2026. The photograph is the existing station entrance on 7 November 2020.
At the 2021 Census the Australian Bureau of Statistics counted 23,992 people usually living in Cheltenham. The median age was 40. The Victorian median on the same release was 38. There were 10,468 private dwellings, with 2.4 people per household on average. The Victorian figure was 2.5. The median weekly household income was $1,919.
2021 Census
| People usually resident | 23,992 |
| Median age | 40 |
| Private dwellings | 10,468 |
| People per household | 2.4 |
| Median weekly household income | $1,919 |
These figures are for the suburb, not for the City of Kingston.
References
- 2021 Census QuickStats: Cheltenham (SAL20539), 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: Cheltenham station entrance, 7 November 2020, Philip Mallis, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.