Suburb by suburb snapshot – Eaglehawk

Eaglehawk is approximately 14.5 square kilometres and has four parks covering nearly 2.1 per cent of total area.

The population of Eaglehawk in 2016 was 5691 people and by the 2021 Census it was 5538, showing a decline of 2.6 per cent in the area during that time.

Eaglehawk is a residential suburb in the north-west of urban Bendigo with its main centre five kilometres from Bendigo’s CBD.

Gold was discovered at Bendigo in October 1851 and the gold-bearing land extended several kilometres north and north-west of Bendigo, beyond Eaglehawk.

California Gully and Sailors Gully recorded gold finds in the first half of 1852, along with Eaglehawk.

In 1854 town lots were surveyed and sold along High Street in Eaglehawk, where it divides into Sailors Gully and Pegleg Gully Roads (i.e. Pyramid Hill Road and Loddon Valley Highway).

A National school was opened in 1854 on the site occupied by the present primary school. Two Methodist churches were opened the following year, and further north at Sailors Gully a second school was opened that’s now known as Eaglehawk North Primary School.

The 1860s were a period of rapid growth, but with mostly short-lived or hastily run up buildings, but the next two decades saw more substantial developments.

Eaglehawk borough was created on 29 July 1862 and by the end of the decade there were also Anglican and Presbyterian churches and a mechanics’ institute.

Gas was laid on in 1866, the railway from Bendigo to Bridgewater was opened in 1876.

In 1882 Eaglehawk became a railway junction when the line to Raywood was opened.

The 1870s and 80s also saw the creation of a botanical garden (Canterbury Park) and the adjoining Lake Neangar, the extravagantly designed primary school (1884) and the first tramway.

A new town hall was built in 1901 and the trams were electrified in 1903.

At about that time mining employment and the Borough’s population began to decline, more than halving between the 1901 and 1933 censuses.

Minor population growth occurred in the 1960s, a high school was opened in 1964 and the tramline closed in 1973.

CoreLogic data indicates that the predominant age group in Eaglehawk is 0-9 years with households in being primarily childless couples and are likely to be repaying $1000 to $1399 per month on mortgages.

In general, people in Eaglehawk work in a trades occupation.

In 2011, 67.1 per cent of the homes in Eaglehawk were owner-occupied compared with 65.7 per cent in 2016.

TITBIT:

Eaglehawk borough was created on 29 July 1862

Population: 5538

Male: 48.5%

Female: 51.5%

Median age: 39

5-year population change: -2.6%

House median value: $510,000

Change in Median Price: (5yrs) is 76.3%

Median asking rent per week: $400

Average length of ownership: 10 years

Owner occupiers: 68%

Renters: 32%

House median sale price:

May 2022: $485,000

May 2021: $392,500

May 2020: $335,000

May 2019: $299,000

May 2018: $310,000

House sales per annum:

Period ending May 2022: 121

Period ending May 2021: 134

Land median sale price:

May 2022: $280,000

May 2021: $180,000

Land sales per annum:

Period ending May 2022: 8

Period ending May 2021: 21