Wheelers Hill flood map & planning overlays

The schematic on this page is a Wheelers Hill 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 Wheelers Hill address and it shows the flood, zoning and bushfire mapping on the exact lot boundary.

About 9% of Wheelers Hill 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 18% of Wheelers Hill is mapped as bushfire-prone, compared with a Monash average of 2%. A bushfire-prone designation can trigger additional building requirements, so check the specific address.

The dominant planning zone in Wheelers Hill is Neighbourhood Residential Zone (NRZ4), though the suburb also includes Public Park and Recreation Zone (PPRZ) and General Residential Zone (GRZ3). Zoning sets what you can build and do on a site, and can differ lot by lot.

Wheelers Hill has 9 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 7,902 surveyed parcels in Wheelers Hill, the median lot size is about 674 m². There are also 5,099 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 Wheelers Hill itself. The suburb is served by 105 bus stops.

At the 2021 Census Wheelers Hill had 20,652 usual residents, with a median age of 48 and an average household size of 2.7 people. The wider Wheelers Hill statistical area, which contains Wheelers Hill, went from 21,532 people in 2001 to 21,281 in 2025, down 1%. ABS publishes no annual population series for individual suburbs, so that trend describes the surrounding area rather than Wheelers Hill alone.

On the ABS SEIFA 2021 index of relative socio-economic advantage and disadvantage (IRSAD), Wheelers Hill scores 1080 and sits in decile 10 of 10 nationally and decile 10 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 Wheelers Hill was $1,818 a week at the 2021 Census, against $1,922 for the typical suburb in Monash. Median rent was $481 a week and the median mortgage repayment $2,500 a month. These are 2021 Census figures and have not been indexed to today.

A Wheelers Hill 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.