Kingsbury flood map & planning overlays

The schematic on this page is a Kingsbury flood map: the mapped flood overlays drawn over the suburb's terrain and street grid, covering about 11% of the suburb. Flood lines vary block to block, so for a specific property use the free interactive map - search any Kingsbury address and it shows the flood, zoning and bushfire mapping on the exact lot boundary.

About 11% of Kingsbury falls within a mapped flood overlay, against the council-wide suburb average of 11%. Flood overlays vary block to block, so whether a particular lot is affected needs a property-level check.

Bushfire mapping covers Kingsbury and little to none of it is mapped as bushfire-prone (the Darebin average is 1%). Always confirm for the exact lot, as mapping can change.

The dominant planning zone in Kingsbury is General Residential Zone (GRZ2), though the suburb also includes Public Park and Recreation Zone (PPRZ) and Transport Zone (TRZ3). Zoning sets what you can build and do on a site, and can differ lot by lot.

Kingsbury 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 1,848 surveyed parcels in Kingsbury, the median lot size is about 464 m². There are also 448 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 Kingsbury itself. The suburb is served by 16 bus stops and 3 tram stops.

At the 2021 Census Kingsbury had 3,460 usual residents, with a median age of 34 and an average household size of 2.4 people. The wider Kingsbury statistical area, which contains Kingsbury, went from 6,084 people in 2001 to 12,932 in 2025, up 113%. ABS publishes no annual population series for individual suburbs, so that trend describes the surrounding area rather than Kingsbury alone.

On the ABS SEIFA 2021 index of relative socio-economic advantage and disadvantage (IRSAD), Kingsbury scores 972 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 Kingsbury was $1,399 a week at the 2021 Census, against $1,844 for the typical suburb in Darebin. Median rent was $361 a week and the median mortgage repayment $1,733 a month. These are 2021 Census figures and have not been indexed to today.

A Kingsbury 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.