Median elevation
79 m
range 67–92 m
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Housing
Essendon Fields
Victoria · Census 2021
Median house price not tracked for this suburb
Essendon Fields is a leafy residential suburb of Moonee Valley.
Median house price
No Valuer-General median for Essendon Fields.
Victoria's Valuer-General sales data is open, but we have no suburb median for Essendon Fields from it. ABS median established-house price, Greater Melbourne: $850k; Rest of Vic.: $625k.
People & housing
Population
13
Median age
45 yrs
Income / person / wk
$1,125
Terrain & hazard exposure
Land below 5 m
0%
0% below 2 m
Shares are the proportion of the suburb's land area. Land where Landsat saw water in at least 1% of clear passes since 1987, excluding permanent water and filtered by DEA's confidence layer. Satellites miss flood peaks, so this is a floor, not a risk estimate; dense high-rise cores can still register tower shadow as water. A statutory planning-control boundary, not a flood extent, and it can lag the latest flood study. Designated for development control; a designation, not a prediction of fire behaviour. The Building Regulations' Designated Bushfire Prone Area, the like-for-like of NSW Bush Fire Prone Land; the narrower Bushfire Management Overlay is a separate planning control. Elevation is orthometric height from a 30 m model; no hydrology or drainage is modelled.
Planning & zoning
Zoning mix (share of the suburb's land)
Show on map →- Growth area, deferred or unzoned90%
- Infrastructure & special purpose9.1%
- Centres & mixed use0.6%
- General / medium / high-density residential0.6%
In a heritage area
0%
conservation area / Heritage Overlay
Show on map →Planning instrument: Moonee Valley Planning Scheme. Zones are grouped into ten families so states compare; the council's own scheme is the authority for any one lot. Source: Vicmap Planning zones; Vicmap Heritage Overlay.
Local amenities
Schools
0
Supermarkets
2
Pubs & bars
0
Parks
3
Libraries
0
GP clinics
1
Pharmacies
1
Hospitals
0
Nearest supermarket
0.4 km
Nearest train
2.1 km
Nearest hospital
4.2 km
Distance to coast
12.7 km
NBN
FIXED LINE
Grocery mix: 1 Coles. Amenity counts via © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) & Geoscience Australia HealthDirect (CC BY 4.0). Distance to coast derived from ABS state boundaries (CC BY 4.0).
Schools by sector
- Nearest secondary
- 1.8 km
School sector & type: ACARA (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority), School Location dataset.
Local council
- Council (LGA)
- Moonee Valley
- Population
- 130,501 (2025) · +1.0% in a year
- Area / density
- 43 km² · 3,028/km²
- Council medians (2021)
- age 39 · $2,011/wk household income · $386/wk rent
- Council-wide house median (2023-24)
- $1.2M
- Federal grants
- $4.35M in 2025-26 · $33/resident
- Avg rates / property
- $2,027
- Operating result
- +8.3%
- Asset renewal
- 125%
- Website
- mvcc.vic.gov.au
Council boundaries and the suburb split: ABS ASGS LGA 2024, allocated by 2021 mesh block and weighted by Census 2021 residents. Population: ABS Estimated Resident Population 2025. Medians: ABS Census 2021. House median: ABS Data by Region, established-house transfers across the whole council, financial year 2023-24. Federal grants: Financial Assistance Grants, Dept of Infrastructure. Financials: VIC Local Government Performance Reporting 2024-25, Local Government Victoria. ABS, Dept of Infrastructure and Local Government Victoria data CC BY 4.0; council website from Wikidata (CC0).
Representation
- Federal division
- Maribyrnong
- Federal MP
- Jo Briskey (ALP)
- Two-party-preferred
- Labor 63% 2PP
- State electorate
- Essendon
- State MP
- Danny Pearson (ALP)
Similar suburbs
Closest demographic & amenity profile, nationally.
Sources: ABS ASGS boundaries (CC BY 4.0); ABS Census 2021 (CC BY 4.0); Australian Electoral Commission (CC BY 4.0); Geoscience Australia 1 Second DEM-S (CC BY 4.0); DEA Water Observations Statistics, Geoscience Australia (CC BY 4.0); Vicmap Planning overlays, Department of Transport and Planning Victoria (CC BY 4.0); Designated Bushfire Prone Area, Department of Transport and Planning Victoria (CC BY 4.0); Vicmap Planning — Planning Scheme Zones, Department of Transport and Planning Victoria (CC BY 4.0); Vicmap Planning — Heritage Overlay, Department of Transport and Planning Victoria (CC BY 4.0); Wikipedia state-member tables (CC BY-SA 4.0). Not financial advice.