Mentone flood map & planning overlays
Mentone: 13,197 residents and 34 heritage places, 2nd in Kingston for heritage.
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A planning-constraint profile of Mentone
(Kingston, VIC) - 4.53 km², mapped from live council and
state overlay data. This suburb is moderately constrained.
Profile updated 24 October 2026.
Constraint readout
4.53 km² - this suburb is moderately constrained by planning overlays.
Elevation hillshade with street names, clipped to Mentone'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 Mentone
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
<1% 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.
Contours held
- Victorian Airport Environs Overlay
Observed overflight - sampled 4 Sep to 24 Oct 2026
typical observed square 5 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.
Mentone at a glance
How Mentone is zoned
Selling in Mentone? The zoning and planning overlays on this page are the controls a Section 32 vendor statement discloses.
Across its 4.53 km², Mentone is moderately constrained by planning overlays. About 12% of the suburb sits within a mapped flood overlay. There are 34 heritage-listed sites on record, and the dominant land-use zone is Neighbourhood Residential Zone (NRZ7). The median lot measures about 562 m² across 8,978 parcels.
Who lives in Mentone
Census 2021 figures published by the ABS for the Mentone 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 1072, and decile 10 within Victoria. The national average is 1000.
Age profile
Share of Mentone's 13,197 residents in each ABS age band.
Population trend, 2001 to 2025
Estimated resident population of Mentone, the wider ABS statistical area containing Mentone. There is no annual population series published at suburb level, so this describes the surrounding area rather than Mentone itself.
11,561 in 2001 to 14,155 in 2025, up 22%.
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.
Mentone 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 Mentone 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 100% of Mentone. 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 Mentone lot.
Mentone planning - frequently asked
Is Mentone flood-prone?
About 12% of Mentone falls within a mapped flood overlay, against the council-wide suburb average of 19%.
Is Mentone bushfire-prone?
Bushfire mapping covers Mentone and little to none of it is mapped as bushfire-prone (the Kingston average is 6%).
Is Mentone affected by aircraft noise?
About <1% of Mentone sits inside a published aircraft noise contour. 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 Mentone under a flight path?
Aircraft were observed below 3,000 ft over about 100% of Mentone, in the period sampled (4 Sep 2026 to 24 Oct 2026). The lowest measured aircraft was at 500 ft, with an average of 1,000 ft. At the busiest point in the suburb about 127 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 Mentone?
The dominant planning zone in Mentone is Neighbourhood Residential Zone (NRZ7), though the suburb also includes Neighbourhood Residential Zone (NRZ2) and Housing Choice and Transport Zone (HCTZ1).
Does Mentone have heritage-listed places?
Mentone has 34 heritage-listed places on record.
What is the typical lot size in Mentone?
Across 8,978 surveyed parcels in Mentone, the median lot size is about 562 m². There are also 1,992 registered easements mapped in the suburb.
Does Mentone have a train station?
Yes - Mentone has 1 train station: Mentone Station. It is also served by 60 bus stops.
What is the population of Mentone?
At the 2021 Census Mentone had 13,197 usual residents, with a median age of 42 and an average household size of 2.3 people. The wider Mentone statistical area, which contains Mentone, went from 11,561 people in 2001 to 14,155 in 2025, up 22%.
Is Mentone an advantaged suburb?
On the ABS SEIFA 2021 index of relative socio-economic advantage and disadvantage (IRSAD), Mentone scores 1072 and sits in decile 10 of 10 nationally and decile 10 within Victoria (decile 1 is the most disadvantaged tenth, decile 10 the least).
What is the median household income in Mentone?
Median household income in Mentone was $1,889 a week at the 2021 Census, against $1,932 for the typical suburb in Kingston. Median rent was $392 a week and the median mortgage repayment $2,167 a month.
Compare nearby suburbs
| Nearby suburb | Distance | Flood mapped | Bushfire-prone |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parkdale | 2.0 km | 14% | 0% |
| Beaumaris Bayside |
2.0 km | 8% | 0% |
| Cheltenham | 2.5 km | 6% | 0% |
| Black Rock Bayside |
3.5 km | <1% | 0% |
| Moorabbin Airport | 3.5 km | 1% | 0% |
| Mordialloc | 3.6 km | 34% | 0% |
| Heatherton | 4.0 km | 9% | 0% |
| Highett Bayside |
4.2 km | 11% | 0% |
| Moorabbin | 4.7 km | 10% | 0% |
| Sandringham Bayside |
5.6 km | 4% | 0% |