Kennington flood map & planning overlays
Kennington is home to 5,880 residents on 590 m² lots.
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A planning-constraint profile of Kennington
(Greater Bendigo, VIC) - 4.0 km², mapped from live council and
state overlay data. This suburb is highly constrained.
Profile updated 25 October 2026.
Constraint readout
4.0 km² - this suburb is highly constrained by planning overlays.
Elevation hillshade with street names, clipped to Kennington's boundary, with the flood, bushfire and environmental overlays drawn on top. Magenta is where aircraft were observed in the sampled period, brightest below 3,000 ft.
Nearby suburbs, nearest first
Aircraft noise and flight paths over Kennington
The ANEF contour is a published planning forecast and observed overflight is what a sampled tracking feed recorded - neither describes any individual property.
Observed overflight - sampled 4 Sep to 24 Oct 2026
Night movements: not established - night is sampled as often as day, but too few night flights have been seen here to conclude either way.
How this is measured
Traffic is sampled rather than watched continuously, so every figure is a floor: aircraft not captured between samples are not represented. Rates are per 500 m square - the busiest square in the suburb, not a count of flights over the suburb - and a square is only rated where enough traffic was seen to measure it. Altitudes are above mean sea level. Flight paths change with runway use, weather, season and airspace design. This is a record of observed traffic; it is not a noise contour and not a planning control.
Kennington at a glance
How Kennington is zoned
Selling in Kennington? The zoning and planning overlays on this page are the controls a Section 32 vendor statement discloses.
Across its 4.0 km², Kennington is highly constrained by planning overlays. About 5% of the suburb sits within a mapped flood overlay, and 32% is flagged bushfire-prone. There are 5 heritage-listed sites on record, and the dominant land-use zone is General Residential Zone (GRZ). The median lot measures about 590 m² across 3,660 parcels.
Who lives in Kennington
Census 2021 figures published by the ABS for the Kennington suburb boundary itself, not a wider region.
Socio-economic standing
ABS SEIFA 2021 ranks every Australian suburb. Decile 1 is the most disadvantaged tenth of the country, decile 10 the least.
Score 981, and decile 4 within Victoria. The national average is 1000.
Age profile
Share of Kennington's 5,880 residents in each ABS age band.
Population trend, 2001 to 2025
Estimated resident population of East Bendigo - Kennington, the wider ABS statistical area containing Kennington. There is no annual population series published at suburb level, so this describes the surrounding area rather than Kennington itself.
12,682 in 2001 to 13,941 in 2025, up 10%.
Source: ABS Census 2021 and SEIFA 2021 (Suburbs and Localities), Regional Population (SA2), CC BY 4.0. Small counts are randomly adjusted by the ABS.
Kennington data sources and coverage
“Not mapped” means we hold no source layer for this suburb - never an all-clear.
| Dataset | Coverage | Publisher |
|---|---|---|
| Flood mapping | Mapped | Vicmap Planning and Victorian Government spatial services |
| Bushfire-prone mapping | Mapped | Vicmap Planning and Victorian Government spatial services |
| Zoning | Mapped | Vicmap Planning and Victorian Government spatial services |
| Heritage and environment | Mapped where published | Vicmap Planning and Victorian Government spatial services |
| Aircraft noise contours (ANEF) | Not held | Vicmap Planning and Victorian Government spatial services, Defence |
| Observed flight paths | Observed | adsb.lol, under the Open Database License |
| Demographics | Available | Australian Bureau of Statistics (2021 Census and SEIFA) |
Profile last materially updated 25 October 2026. See the methodology and full source list. Source data changes over time and critical decisions should be checked with the responsible authority.
Check a specific Kennington address
See exactly which overlays touch a single property - the interactive map is free. Need it on paper? A full planning PDF is just $9.
See what's in the $9 report →The report's Aircraft Overflight page narrows that to the address itself: how many aircraft a day, how low, and at what heights.
Building or pricing a slab? The $119 geotechnical desktop report covers geology, soils, bores and the indicative soil reactivity range to expect for a Kennington lot.
Kennington planning - frequently asked
Is Kennington flood-prone?
About 5% of Kennington falls within a mapped flood overlay, against the council-wide suburb average of 10%.
Is Kennington bushfire-prone?
Around 32% of Kennington is mapped as bushfire-prone, compared with a Greater Bendigo average of 89%.
Is Kennington under a flight path?
Aircraft were observed over about 20% of Kennington in the period sampled, but only above 3,000 ft - the lowest measured was 5,500 ft. Traffic is sampled rather than watched continuously and flight paths change with runway use, weather and season; the ANEF contour is the planning instrument.
What is the zoning in Kennington?
The dominant planning zone in Kennington is General Residential Zone (GRZ), though the suburb also includes Public Park and Recreation Zone (PPRZ) and Public Conservation and Resource Zone (PCRZ).
Does Kennington have heritage-listed places?
Kennington has 5 heritage-listed places on record.
What is the typical lot size in Kennington?
Across 3,660 surveyed parcels in Kennington, the median lot size is about 590 m². There are also 1,176 registered easements mapped in the suburb.
Does Kennington have a train station?
There is no train station inside Kennington itself. The suburb is served by 27 bus stops.
What is the population of Kennington?
At the 2021 Census Kennington had 5,880 usual residents, with a median age of 42 and an average household size of 2.2 people. The wider East Bendigo - Kennington statistical area, which contains Kennington, went from 12,682 people in 2001 to 13,941 in 2025, up 10%.
Is Kennington an advantaged suburb?
On the ABS SEIFA 2021 index of relative socio-economic advantage and disadvantage (IRSAD), Kennington scores 981 and sits in decile 5 of 10 nationally and decile 4 within Victoria (decile 1 is the most disadvantaged tenth, decile 10 the least).
What is the median household income in Kennington?
Median household income in Kennington was $1,371 a week at the 2021 Census, against $1,543 for the typical suburb in Greater Bendigo. Median rent was $290 a week and the median mortgage repayment $1,400 a month.
Compare nearby suburbs
| Nearby suburb | Distance | Flood mapped | Bushfire-prone |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flora Hill | 1.2 km | 2% | 51% |
| Strathdale | 1.5 km | 4% | 56% |
| Quarry Hill | 2.2 km | 4% | 52% |
| Bendigo | 3.0 km | 22% | <1% |
| Spring Gully | 3.1 km | 4% | 99% |
| Golden Gully | 4.0 km | 1% | 100% |
| Ironbark | 4.2 km | Not mapped | 30% |
| Golden Square | 4.5 km | 7% | 46% |
| East Bendigo | 4.5 km | 9% | 75% |
| North Bendigo | 4.7 km | 9% | 46% |