Melbourne Airport flood map & planning overlays
Melbourne Airport sits 88.3% inside aircraft noise contours, 3rd in Victoria, on 5 ha lots.
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A planning-constraint profile of Melbourne Airport
(Hume, VIC) - 27.02 km², mapped from live council and
state overlay data. This suburb is highly constrained.
Profile updated 24 October 2026.
Constraint readout
27.02 km² - this suburb is highly constrained by planning overlays.
Elevation hillshade with street names, clipped to Melbourne Airport's boundary, with the flood, bushfire and environmental overlays drawn on top. Amber hatching is the published aircraft noise (ANEF) contour. 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 Melbourne Airport
The ANEF contour is a published planning forecast and observed overflight is what a sampled tracking feed recorded - neither describes any individual property.
Inside an aircraft noise contour
88% of the suburb's land sits inside a published ANEF or airport-environs contour. Contours vary street by street, so whether a particular lot is inside one needs a property-level check.
Highest contour present
Under AS 2021, land at ANEF 30 and above is generally unacceptable for new houses and most noise-sensitive uses. The contour is a forecast, not a measurement at any one house.
Contours held
- Victorian Airport Environs Overlay
- vic_melbourne_airport_anef_20
- vic_melbourne_airport_anef_25
- vic_melbourne_airport_anef_30
- vic_melbourne_airport_anef_35
- vic_melbourne_airport_anef_40
Observed overflight - sampled 4 Sep to 24 Oct 2026
typical observed square 1 a day
Night movements: observed, lowest 500 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.
Melbourne Airport at a glance
How Melbourne Airport is zoned
Selling in Melbourne Airport? The zoning and planning overlays on this page are the controls a Section 32 vendor statement discloses.
Across its 27.02 km², Melbourne Airport is highly constrained by planning overlays. About 1% of the suburb sits within a mapped flood overlay, and 63% is flagged bushfire-prone. There are 3 heritage-listed sites on record, and the dominant land-use zone is Commonwealth Land (CA). The median lot measures about 45,790 m² across 72 parcels.
Who lives in Melbourne Airport
Census 2021 figures published by the ABS for the Melbourne Airport 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 1053, and decile 9 within Victoria. The national average is 1000.
Age profile
Share of Melbourne Airport's 64 residents in each ABS age band.
Population trend, 2001 to 2025
Estimated resident population of Melbourne Airport, the wider ABS statistical area containing Melbourne Airport. There is no annual population series published at suburb level, so this describes the surrounding area rather than Melbourne Airport itself.
149 in 2001 to 130 in 2025, down 13%.
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.
Melbourne Airport 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) | Inside a held contour | 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 Melbourne Airport 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 →Aircraft have been seen below 3,000 ft over about 76% of Melbourne Airport. 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 Melbourne Airport lot.
Melbourne Airport planning - frequently asked
Is Melbourne Airport flood-prone?
About 1% of Melbourne Airport falls within a mapped flood overlay, against the council-wide suburb average of 4%.
Is Melbourne Airport bushfire-prone?
Around 63% of Melbourne Airport is mapped as bushfire-prone, compared with a Hume average of 42%.
Is Melbourne Airport affected by aircraft noise?
About 88% of Melbourne Airport sits inside a published aircraft noise contour, and the highest contour present is ANEF 40 - under AS 2021, land above ANEF 25 is generally considered unacceptable for new houses, and 20-25 conditionally acceptable with noise attenuation. ANEF contours are forecasts published per airport and used to control noise-sensitive development; they are not a measurement at any one house, and a property can sit under a flight path and outside every contour.
Is Melbourne Airport under a flight path?
Aircraft were observed below 3,000 ft over about 76% of Melbourne Airport, and over about 93% at any altitude up to 10,000 ft, in the period sampled (4 Sep 2026 to 24 Oct 2026). The lowest measured aircraft was at 500 ft, with an average of 500 ft. At the busiest point in the suburb about 345 aircraft a day were recorded passing over one 500 m square. 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 Melbourne Airport?
The dominant planning zone in Melbourne Airport is Commonwealth Land (CA), though the suburb also includes Green Wedge Zone (GWZ) and Transport Zone (TRZ2).
Does Melbourne Airport have heritage-listed places?
Melbourne Airport has 3 heritage-listed places on record.
What is the typical lot size in Melbourne Airport?
Across 72 surveyed parcels in Melbourne Airport, the median lot size is about 45,790 m². There are also 14 registered easements mapped in the suburb.
Does Melbourne Airport have a train station?
There is no train station inside Melbourne Airport itself. The suburb is served by 18 bus stops.
What is the population of Melbourne Airport?
At the 2021 Census Melbourne Airport had 64 usual residents, with a median age of 37 and an average household size of 2.0 people. The wider Melbourne Airport statistical area, which contains Melbourne Airport, went from 149 people in 2001 to 130 in 2025, down 13%.
Is Melbourne Airport an advantaged suburb?
On the ABS SEIFA 2021 index of relative socio-economic advantage and disadvantage (IRSAD), Melbourne Airport scores 1053 and sits in decile 9 of 10 nationally and decile 9 within Victoria (decile 1 is the most disadvantaged tenth, decile 10 the least).
Compare nearby suburbs
| Nearby suburb | Distance | Flood mapped | Bushfire-prone |
|---|---|---|---|
| Keilor Brimbank |
3.8 km | 15% | 75% |
| Keilor North Brimbank |
3.8 km | 9% | 100% |
| Keilor Lodge Brimbank |
4.0 km | 3% | 2% |
| Attwood | 4.3 km | 4% | 78% |
| Westmeadows | 4.7 km | 6% | 36% |
| Tullamarine | 5.0 km | 2% | 3% |
| Keilor Park Brimbank |
5.0 km | 5% | 18% |
| Taylors Lakes Brimbank |
5.2 km | 8% | 3% |
| Greenvale | 5.6 km | 6% | 59% |
| Gladstone Park | 5.6 km | 8% | 0% |