Burnside flood map & planning overlays

The schematic on this page is a Burnside flood map: the mapped flood overlays drawn over the suburb's terrain and street grid, covering about 6% of the suburb. Flood lines vary block to block, so for a specific property use the free interactive map - search any Burnside address and it shows the flood, zoning and bushfire mapping on the exact lot boundary.

About 6% of Burnside falls within a mapped flood overlay, against the council-wide suburb average of 4%. Flood overlays vary block to block, so whether a particular lot is affected needs a property-level check.

Around 2% of Burnside is mapped as bushfire-prone, compared with a Melton average of 68%. A bushfire-prone designation can trigger additional building requirements, so check the specific address.

The dominant planning zone in Burnside is General Residential Zone (GRZ1), though the suburb also includes Urban Floodway Zone (UFZ) and Commercial 1 Zone (C1Z). Zoning sets what you can build and do on a site, and can differ lot by lot.

Burnside has 1 heritage-listed place 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 2,565 surveyed parcels in Burnside, the median lot size is about 514 m². There are also 1,272 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 Burnside itself. The suburb is served by 19 bus stops.

At the 2021 Census Burnside had 5,800 usual residents, with a median age of 37 and an average household size of 3.1 people. The wider Burnside statistical area, which contains Burnside, went from 2,225 people in 2001 to 6,635 in 2025, up 198%. ABS publishes no annual population series for individual suburbs, so that trend describes the surrounding area rather than Burnside alone.

On the ABS SEIFA 2021 index of relative socio-economic advantage and disadvantage (IRSAD), Burnside scores 982 and sits in decile 5 of 10 nationally and decile 4 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 Burnside was $1,871 a week at the 2021 Census, against $1,841 for the typical suburb in Melton. Median rent was $400 a week and the median mortgage repayment $2,000 a month. These are 2021 Census figures and have not been indexed to today.

A Burnside 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.