This is the Kingston locality in Hepburn. Looking for Kingston Council? See the Kingston flood map by suburb →
Kingston flood map & planning overlays
Kingston, median 56, holds 36 heritage places on 4,165 m² lots.
Free map preview, then PDF reports from $9 - about the price of an iced latte on a public holiday.
A planning-constraint profile of Kingston
(Hepburn, VIC) - 19.06 km², mapped from live council and
state overlay data. This suburb is highly constrained.
Profile updated 24 October 2026.
Constraint readout
19.06 km² - this suburb is highly constrained by planning overlays.
Elevation hillshade with street names, clipped to Kingston'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 Kingston
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: observed, lowest 3,000 ft - night is sampled as often as day, but night traffic is light, so this is a floor and no rate can be put on it.
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.
Kingston at a glance
How Kingston is zoned
Selling in Kingston? The zoning and planning overlays on this page are the controls a Section 32 vendor statement discloses.
Across its 19.06 km², Kingston is highly constrained by planning overlays. About 4% of the suburb sits within a mapped flood overlay, and 100% is flagged bushfire-prone. There are 36 heritage-listed sites on record, and the dominant land-use zone is Farming Zone (FZ1). The median lot measures about 4,165 m² across 277 parcels.
Who lives in Kingston
Census 2021 figures published by the ABS for the Kingston 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 1042, and decile 8 within Victoria. The national average is 1000.
Age profile
Share of Kingston's 190 residents in each ABS age band.
Population trend, 2001 to 2025
Estimated resident population of Creswick - Clunes, the wider ABS statistical area containing Kingston. There is no annual population series published at suburb level, so this describes the surrounding area rather than Kingston itself.
7,467 in 2001 to 8,038 in 2025, up 8%.
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.
Kingston 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 24 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 Kingston 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 Kingston lot.
Kingston planning - frequently asked
Is Kingston flood-prone?
About 4% of Kingston falls within a mapped flood overlay, against the council-wide suburb average of 7%.
Is Kingston bushfire-prone?
Around 100% of Kingston is mapped as bushfire-prone, compared with a Hepburn average of 100%.
Is Kingston under a flight path?
Aircraft were observed over about 38% of Kingston in the period sampled, but only above 3,000 ft - the lowest measured was 3,000 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 Kingston?
The dominant planning zone in Kingston is Farming Zone (FZ1), though the suburb also includes Rural Conservation Zone (RCZ1) and Transport Zone (TRZ2).
Does Kingston have heritage-listed places?
Kingston has 36 heritage-listed places on record.
What is the typical lot size in Kingston?
Across 277 surveyed parcels in Kingston, the median lot size is about 4,165 m². There are also 60 registered easements mapped in the suburb.
What is the population of Kingston?
At the 2021 Census Kingston had 190 usual residents, with a median age of 56 and an average household size of 2.2 people. The wider Creswick - Clunes statistical area, which contains Kingston, went from 7,467 people in 2001 to 8,038 in 2025, up 8%.
Is Kingston an advantaged suburb?
On the ABS SEIFA 2021 index of relative socio-economic advantage and disadvantage (IRSAD), Kingston scores 1042 and sits in decile 9 of 10 nationally and decile 8 within Victoria (decile 1 is the most disadvantaged tenth, decile 10 the least).
What is the median household income in Kingston?
Median household income in Kingston was $1,517 a week at the 2021 Census, against $1,400 for the typical suburb in Hepburn. Median rent was $230 a week and the median mortgage repayment $1,517 a month.
Compare nearby suburbs
| Nearby suburb | Distance | Flood mapped | Bushfire-prone |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newlyn North | 3.9 km | 10% | 97% |
| Smokeytown | 4.0 km | Not mapped | 100% |
| Springmount | 4.3 km | Not mapped | 100% |
| Newlyn | 4.3 km | 8% | 100% |
| Allendale | 4.5 km | 1% | 100% |
| Broomfield | 4.7 km | Not mapped | 100% |
| Blampied | 6.4 km | 5% | 100% |
| Creswick | 7.5 km | 9% | 100% |
| Creswick North | 7.5 km | Not mapped | 100% |
| Lawrence | 8.2 km | 5% | 100% |