Sunshine North flood map & planning overlays

The schematic on this page is a Sunshine North flood map: the mapped flood overlays drawn over the suburb's terrain and street grid, covering about 9% of the suburb. Flood lines vary block to block, so for a specific property use the free interactive map - search any Sunshine North address and it shows the flood, zoning and bushfire mapping on the exact lot boundary.

About 9% of Sunshine North falls within a mapped flood overlay, against the council-wide suburb average of 6%. Flood overlays vary block to block, so whether a particular lot is affected needs a property-level check.

Around 15% of Sunshine North is mapped as bushfire-prone, compared with a Brimbank average of 15%. A bushfire-prone designation can trigger additional building requirements, so check the specific address.

About 32% of Sunshine North 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.

The dominant planning zone in Sunshine North is General Residential Zone (GRZ1), though the suburb also includes Industrial 3 Zone (IN3Z) and Industrial 1 Zone (IN1Z). Zoning sets what you can build and do on a site, and can differ lot by lot.

Sunshine North has 7 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 7,795 surveyed parcels in Sunshine North, the median lot size is about 550 m². There are also 1,931 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 Sunshine North itself. The suburb is served by 43 bus stops.

At the 2021 Census Sunshine North had 12,047 usual residents, with a median age of 37 and an average household size of 2.9 people. The wider Sunshine North statistical area, which contains Sunshine North, went from 10,478 people in 2001 to 12,751 in 2025, up 22%. ABS publishes no annual population series for individual suburbs, so that trend describes the surrounding area rather than Sunshine North alone.

On the ABS SEIFA 2021 index of relative socio-economic advantage and disadvantage (IRSAD), Sunshine North scores 904 and sits in decile 2 of 10 nationally and decile 1 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 Sunshine North was $1,399 a week at the 2021 Census, against $1,486 for the typical suburb in Brimbank. Median rent was $341 a week and the median mortgage repayment $1,733 a month. These are 2021 Census figures and have not been indexed to today.

A Sunshine North 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.