Buyers agents in Coburg

Coburg is a Stage 1 centre in the state's Train and Tram Zone Activity Centres Program, whose Stage 1 centre plans were finalised in March 2026. The plan applied taller maximum building heights closer to Coburg station. Its planning scheme changes are in Amendment GC270, approved and gazetted on 30 March 2026. The plan covers the centre's core and catchment, not the whole suburb, so check whether the address is inside it.

Merri-bek's Heritage Overlay lists precincts with Coburg addresses, such as the H.M. Prison Pentridge precinct, the Main Street Precinct, The Grove/Sydney Road Precinct, the Moreland Station Precinct and the Railway Place Precinct (1-25 and 29-43 Railway Place). On our map reading, places on the Victorian Heritage Register in Coburg include HM Prison Pentridge, The American Cottage, Glencairn and the Coburg Baby Health Care Centre. Check the address on the planning scheme maps before you plan works.

On our map reading, parts of Coburg are in the Land Subject to Inundation Overlay, the Special Building Overlay (schedules SBO1 and SBO2) and Design and Development Overlay schedule DDO24. Amendment C196more, approved with changes and gazetted in January 2026, added SBO2 for land affected by stormwater overland flows in Merri-bek's local drainage areas, where the council is the drainage authority. Check the address against the overlays before you make an offer.

Amendment C232mbek, approved in December 2024, allows a mixed use development with dwellings, publicly accessible open space and a food and drink premises on surplus education land at 22-38 and 27-31 The Avenue, Coburg.

Metro Trains gives Coburg station (Bell Street and Hudson Street) and Moreland station (Moreland Road and Station Street) a Coburg 3058 address, both in Zone 1. The Level Crossing Removal Project removed the crossings at Bell Street, Munro Street and Reynard Street in Coburg, and Moreland Road in Brunswick, by building a 2.5 km section of elevated rail; the new Coburg and Moreland stations opened in 2020. On our map reading, route 19 (North Coburg - Flinders Street Station) trams stop on Sydney Road in Coburg, and route 1 (East Coburg - South Melbourne Beach) has stops on Nicholson Street, inside or on the edge of the suburb.

The Department of Education's 2026 list gives Coburg Primary School (92 Bell Street), Merri-bek Primary School (157-163 Moreland Road), Coburg West Primary School (185-187 Reynard Street), Coburg North Primary School (180 O'Hea Street), Coburg Special Developmental School (191 Urquhart Street) and Coburg High School (101 Urquhart Street) Coburg addresses. Check the school zone for the address if you are counting on a place.

Homes Victoria's moving annual median rent for the Coburg-Pascoe Vale South group, for leases that began in the year to September 2025, was $550 a week for a two-bedroom flat, $710 for a three-bedroom house and $600 across all properties. That is the September quarter 2025 report, the latest published at 25 October 2026, and the all-properties figure rests on 1,243 leases. The report names the group Coburg-Pascoe Vale South, so the figure is not Coburg's alone.

At the 2021 Census, 65.1% of Coburg homes were separate houses, 24.3% were semi-detached, row or terrace houses or townhouses and 10.4% were flats or apartments.

Coburg had 26,574 residents at the 2021 Census, with a median age of 37. It is in the City of Merri-bek.

At the 2021 Census, 32.2% of Coburg homes were owned outright and 32.1% with a mortgage. The median weekly rent at that Census was $430 and the median monthly mortgage repayment was $2,167.