Aged care costs in Victoria
Data as at
752 residential aged care homes, of which 451 publish room prices. The middle price for a room is $550,000, and most rooms sit between $350,000 and $900,000.
Room prices
These are maximum advertised prices: the most a home charges for its dearest room. They are not what most residents pay. A home may fill the majority of its rooms well below this figure, and the price is negotiable at many homes.
- The cheapest tenth of rooms are under $350,000.
- The middle price is $550,000. Half of rooms cost more, half cost less.
- The dearest tenth are over $900,000.
About 1 in 5 rooms are priced above $750,000. Above that a home needs approval from the Independent Health and Aged Care Pricing Authority, and has to justify the price.
Source: Aged Care Circle analysis of My Aged Care provider data (1,630 priced rooms) · As of
Quality and staffing
| What we measured | Answer | Homes with data |
|---|---|---|
| What a typical home scores | 4 stars | 673 |
| Care a typical home provides, per resident per day | 3 hours 37 minutes | 734 |
| Homes meeting their own staffing target | about 3 in 5 | 609 |
Care minute targets are set per home, adjusted for how much care its residents need. They are not a flat 215 minutes. See our care minutes guide for why comparing a home to 215 gives the wrong answer roughly one time in four.
Ownership
| Type | Homes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Not for Profit | 309 | 47% |
| For Profit | 213 | 33% |
| Government | 130 | 20% |
By suburb
A suburb appears here only if it has at least 5 priced rooms across 3 or more separate homes. A median drawn from one home is that home’s own price wearing a suburb’s name, which is not something we publish. 196 suburbs in Victoria are withheld on that basis.
51 suburbs.
| Suburb | Homes | Rooms | Cheaper | Typical | Dearer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Altona Meadows-18% | 3 | 11 | $385,000 | $450,000 | $550,000 |
| Altona North | 3 | 12 | $475,000 | $525,000 | $575,000 |
| Ballarat-45% | 3 | 7 | $260,000 | $300,000 | $350,000 |
| Balwyn+36% | 3 | 10 | $650,000 | $750,000 | $900,000 |
| Belmont-13% | 4 | 15 | $425,000 | $477,000 | $750,000 |
| Benalla | 3 | 10 | $550,000 | $575,000 | $580,000 |
| Brighton+46% | 4 | 15 | $700,000 | $805,000 | $900,000 |
| Brighton East+77% | 3 | 19 | $846,000 | $975,000 | $1,250,000 |
| Bundoora+18% | 4 | 12 | $450,000 | $650,000 | $650,000 |
| Camberwell+36% | 9 | 34 | $550,000 | $750,000 | $950,000 |
| Capel Sound | 3 | 9 | $400,000 | $550,000 | $782,866 |
| Carrum Downs-20% | 4 | 15 | $390,000 | $440,000 | $700,000 |
| Caulfield+40% | 3 | 7 | $550,000 | $771,085 | $942,096 |
| Caulfield North+129% | 3 | 30 | $985,000 | $1,260,000 | $1,575,000 |
| Clayton | 3 | 15 | $450,000 | $550,000 | $600,000 |
| Colac-27% | 3 | 12 | $350,000 | $400,000 | $425,000 |
| Croydon+27% | 4 | 17 | $570,000 | $700,000 | $800,000 |
| Daylesford-36% | 3 | 11 | $320,000 | $350,000 | $550,000 |
| Donvale+32% | 3 | 13 | $650,000 | $725,000 | $750,000 |
| Epping-15% | 5 | 19 | $435,000 | $465,000 | $550,000 |
| Essendon+36% | 3 | 9 | $650,000 | $750,000 | $1,100,000 |
| Footscray-16% | 4 | 11 | $400,000 | $460,000 | $550,000 |
| Frankston | 3 | 9 | $475,000 | $525,000 | $650,000 |
| Frankston South | 3 | 9 | $460,000 | $550,000 | $550,000 |
| Glen Waverley+14% | 4 | 16 | $475,000 | $625,000 | $769,000 |
The percentage beside a suburb is how its median compares with the Victoria median of $550,000. Differences under 10% are not shown, because at these sample sizes they are noise.
Work out your costs
A room price is only part of what a family pays. The basic daily fee, the means-tested care fee and any extra service fees all apply on top.