Ashwood flood map & planning overlays

The schematic on this page is a Ashwood flood map: the mapped flood overlays drawn over the suburb's terrain and street grid, covering about 7% of the suburb. Flood lines vary block to block, so for a specific property use the free interactive map - search any Ashwood address and it shows the flood, zoning and bushfire mapping on the exact lot boundary.

About 7% of Ashwood falls within a mapped flood overlay, against the council-wide suburb average of 6%. Flood overlays vary block to block, so whether a particular lot is affected needs a property-level check.

Bushfire mapping covers Ashwood and little to none of it is mapped as bushfire-prone (the Monash average is 2%). Always confirm for the exact lot, as mapping can change.

The dominant planning zone in Ashwood is General Residential Zone (GRZ3), though the suburb also includes Neighbourhood Residential Zone (NRZ3) and Public Park and Recreation Zone (PPRZ). Zoning sets what you can build and do on a site, and can differ lot by lot.

Ashwood has 5 heritage-listed places on record. Heritage listing affects what you can alter or demolish, so confirm whether a specific property is listed or near a heritage place.

Across 3,325 surveyed parcels in Ashwood, the median lot size is about 531 m². There are also 1,039 registered easements mapped in the suburb - an easement can restrict where you can build, so always check the title and overlays for the specific lot.

There is no train station inside Ashwood itself. The suburb is served by 30 bus stops.

At the 2021 Census Ashwood had 7,154 usual residents, with a median age of 39 and an average household size of 2.5 people. The wider Ashwood - Chadstone statistical area, which contains Ashwood, went from 14,503 people in 2001 to 21,139 in 2025, up 46%. ABS publishes no annual population series for individual suburbs, so that trend describes the surrounding area rather than Ashwood alone.

On the ABS SEIFA 2021 index of relative socio-economic advantage and disadvantage (IRSAD), Ashwood scores 1062 and sits in decile 9 of 10 nationally and decile 9 within Victoria - decile 1 being the most disadvantaged tenth of Australian suburbs and decile 10 the least. The national average score is 1000. SEIFA summarises income, education, occupation and housing across the whole suburb, so it describes the area, not any particular household in it.

Median household income in Ashwood was $1,909 a week at the 2021 Census, against $1,922 for the typical suburb in Monash. Median rent was $391 a week and the median mortgage repayment $2,600 a month. These are 2021 Census figures and have not been indexed to today.

An Ashwood planning report pulls every overlay - zoning, flood, bushfire, heritage, environmental and noise - that touches a single lot, on live council and state data. The interactive map preview is free; the full PDF report is $9.