Lara (VIC 3212): property prices & suburb profile

Lara property prices

The typical Lara house sold for around $687,000 in the year to 2025-Q4, +99.4% over 10 years and +37.0% over 5 years.

• Medians are published by the Victorian Valuer-General per suburb; we do not have individual sale records for this state, so there is no street-level breakdown on this page (our New South Wales pages have one).
• The headline figure is a sales-weighted average of the last four quarterly medians, not a median of individual sales, because one quiet quarter in a single suburb can move a quarterly median by more than the market did. The chart below plots each quarter as published.
• The Victorian Valuer-General yearly file currently ends at 2024; newer points on the chart and the short-horizon changes come from the quarterly file.
• Change over time reflects what sold in each period, not the value of any one home: a run of large or small homes moves it.
• Periods with fewer than 5 recorded sales are excluded.

Lara medians by quarter

The most recent quarter on record for Lara is 2025-Q4.

• Sale counts are shown so you can judge how solid each median is.

Who lives in Lara

Lara has a median age of 37 and a median household income of $1,969 a week.

• Figures labelled Lara are for the suburb boundary itself (ABS 2021 Census). Anything labelled SA2 or postcode covers a wider area: SA2 "Lara" and postcode 3212 both extend beyond Lara.
• SEIFA decile 1 is the lowest tenth of Australian areas on that index and 10 the highest. The four indices measure different things and often disagree, which is why all four are shown: a suburb can rank high on education and occupation while ranking mid on economic resources.

Schools in Lara

The 3 schools in Lara sit at the 44th percentile nationally on ACARA's socio-educational index.

• ICSEA is ACARA's socio-educational index (average 1000). It describes the family backgrounds of the students enrolled, NOT how well a school teaches: a lower ICSEA means a less advantaged intake, not a worse school.
• Percentiles are ACARA's own national ranking, so the Australia bar is a published figure rather than our arithmetic. Each area shows the median of the mainstream schools sitting inside it; special schools are listed in the table but excluded from the medians.
• Public school intake zones are not published in our dataset for this state, so confirm catchments with the school.

Suburbs near Lara

Lara's typical house price of $687,000 is the 15th highest of the 25 Geelong & Surf Coast suburbs we cover.

• Armstrong Creek 3217

  $665,000 typical house price

• Bell Park 3215

  $671,000 typical house price

• Bell Post Hill 3215

  $696,000 typical house price

• Belmont 3216

  $705,000 typical house price

• Charlemont 3217

  $633,000 typical house price

• Clifton Springs 3222

  $672,000 typical house price

• Corio 3214

  $537,000 typical house price

• Curlewis 3222

  $680,000 typical house price

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Lara: common questions

How much does a house cost in Lara?

About $687,000 across the 12 months to 2025-Q4, from 232 recorded sales. That is a sales-weighted average of the four quarterly medians published by the Victorian Valuer-General: a single quarter in one suburb can swing on a handful of sales.

Have Lara prices gone up?

Prices have risen 99.4% over 10 years and moved +37.0% over 5 years, comparing the latest rolling year with the same window a decade earlier. These movements reflect the mix of homes sold, not the change in value of a specific property.

What do units cost in Lara?

The typical unit price was around $496,000 across the 12 months to 2025-Q4: a sales-weighted average of the quarterly unit medians, from 41 sales.

Can I see Lara prices street by street?

Not yet. VIC publishes suburb-level medians rather than individual sale records, so street-level medians are only available on our New South Wales pages.

Which schools are in Lara?

Lara has 3 ACARA-registered schools: Lara Primary School, Lara Secondary College, St Anthony's School.