Carnegie Melbourne
Street-level neighbourhood data for Carnegie - transport, schools, safety, and local amenities.
Is Carnegie a good place to live?
Carnegie offers a balanced Melbourne trade-off between transport, amenities and day-to-day liveability, but the exact street still matters.
Best for
Top catchment school
Carnegie Primary School
ICSEA 1146 - Above national average
Peak transit frequency
Every 6 min
Schools in Carnegie
Carnegie Primary School
government · primary
ICSEA from ACARA. National average = 1000.
Safety
This area (LGA: Glen Eira) has a crime rate of 4,737 offences per 100,000 residents (2025) — well below the Melbourne metro average of ~9,500. One of Melbourne's safer areas.
Source: Crime Statistics Agency Victoria (2025).
Every address in Carnegie is different
Two houses 500m apart can be in different school catchments, on different tram lines, and under different planning overlays. Get the exact profile for your specific address.
Search your address in Carnegie ->Sources and methodology
These suburb pages summarise Placio's current suburb-level data. They are useful for orientation, but the final decision should still happen at the exact address because school catchments, planning overlays and transit access can change within the same suburb.
- Public Transport Victoria for service frequency.
- ACARA My School for school ICSEA context.
- Crime Statistics Agency Victoria for LGA-level safety context.
- ABS Census, OpenStreetMap and supporting amenity data for suburb context.