Browse property in Wantirna South

Overview

Wantirna South sits 25 km east of Melbourne’s CBD within the City of Knox, bordering the City of Whitehorse and City of Monash. At the 2021 census it recorded 20,754 residents. Once dominated by orchards, the suburb has shifted to a mix of new residential estates and increasing apartment density, reflecting Melbourne’s broader housing trend. The main thoroughfare, Burwood Highway, provides easy road access to surrounding commercial and civic hubs.

Local life centres on Westfield Knox, a 1970s shopping mall revitalised in 2002 and now home to the Knox O‑Zone night precinct with pubs, restaurants, clubs and a cinema. The suburb also hosts the Knox City Council headquarters, a police complex, a skatepark and the State Basketball Centre, which hosts the South East Melbourne Phoenix. A range of schools, from Knox Gardens Primary to St Andrews Christian College and a Swinburne University campus, offers families diverse education options.