Hoppers Crossing flood map & planning overlays

The schematic on this page is a Hoppers Crossing flood map: the mapped flood overlays drawn over the suburb's terrain and street grid, covering about 4% of the suburb. Flood lines vary block to block, so for a specific property use the free interactive map - search any Hoppers Crossing address and it shows the flood, zoning and bushfire mapping on the exact lot boundary.

About 4% of Hoppers Crossing falls within a mapped flood overlay, against the council-wide suburb average of 8%. Flood overlays vary block to block, so whether a particular lot is affected needs a property-level check.

Bushfire mapping covers Hoppers Crossing and little to none of it is mapped as bushfire-prone (the Wyndham average is 42%). Always confirm for the exact lot, as mapping can change.

The dominant planning zone in Hoppers Crossing is General Residential Zone (GRZ1), though the suburb also includes Low Density Residential Zone (LDRZ) and Industrial 3 Zone (IN3Z). Zoning sets what you can build and do on a site, and can differ lot by lot.

Hoppers Crossing has 3 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 15,861 surveyed parcels in Hoppers Crossing, the median lot size is about 594 m². There are also 7,751 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 Hoppers Crossing itself. The suburb is served by 175 bus stops.

At the 2021 Census Hoppers Crossing had 37,216 usual residents, with a median age of 37 and an average household size of 2.8 people. The wider Hoppers Crossing - North statistical area, which contains Hoppers Crossing, went from 17,670 people in 2001 to 18,359 in 2025, up 4%. ABS publishes no annual population series for individual suburbs, so that trend describes the surrounding area rather than Hoppers Crossing alone.

On the ABS SEIFA 2021 index of relative socio-economic advantage and disadvantage (IRSAD), Hoppers Crossing scores 945 and sits in decile 3 of 10 nationally and decile 2 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 Hoppers Crossing was $1,580 a week at the 2021 Census, against $1,766 for the typical suburb in Wyndham. Median rent was $340 a week and the median mortgage repayment $1,600 a month. These are 2021 Census figures and have not been indexed to today.

A Hoppers Crossing 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.