Highly restricted land
≈60% of Melton’s residential land is highly restricted.
Driven mostly by 2-storey height caps. Melton ranks #13 of 32 councils in Melbourne, and #109 of 133 capital city councils nationally.
Source: Geometric union of 2-storey, low-density, detached-only, and heritage controls across Melton. ABS LGA code 24650. Methodology →
Note: Figures and the map cover only the parts of this area inside the capital’s Significant Urban Area; land beyond the SUA boundary is excluded from our modelling.
Where Melton ranks in Melbourne
Melton ranks #13 of 32 Melbourne-area councils for highly restricted residential land.
Highly restricted
Melton: ≈60% · rank #13 of 32
2-storey cap
- 1. Yarra Ranges≈88%
- 2. Knox≈83%
- ⋯
- 9. Yarra≈67%
- 10. Nillumbik≈63%
- 11. Melton≈60%
- 12. Bayside (Vic.)≈59%
- 13. Glen Eira≈55%
- ⋯
- 31. Darebin≈7%
- 32. Moonee Valley≈0%
Low-density
- 1. Yarra Ranges≈88%
- 2. Knox≈83%
- ⋯
- 24. Maribyrnong≈10%
- 25. Melbourne≈8%
- 26. Melton≈8%
- 27. Darebin≈7%
- 28. Hume≈5%
- ⋯
- 31. Wyndham≈2%
- 32. Moonee Valley≈0%
Heritage
- 1. Yarra≈67%
- 2. Port Phillip≈49%
- ⋯
- 22. Maroondah≈1%
- 23. Hume≈1%
- 24. Melton≈1%
- 25. Cardinia≈1%
- 26. Whittlesea≈1%
- ⋯
- 31. Knox≈0%
- 32. Mitchell≈0%
Highly restricted
- 1. Yarra Ranges≈90%
- 2. Boroondara≈84%
- ⋯
- 11. Nillumbik≈64%
- 12. Glen Eira≈61%
- 13. Melton≈60%
- 14. Merri-bek≈59%
- 15. Port Phillip≈56%
- ⋯
- 31. Darebin≈11%
- 32. Moonee Valley≈11%
Source: Melton ranked against other Melbourne-area councils on each restriction metric (ex-rural shares). Methodology →
Suburbs in Melton
23 suburbs sit inside this council.
ABS Suburb & Locality (SAL) boundaries that fall at least 30% inside Melton.
- Aintree≈100%
- Bonnie Brook≈100%
- Cobblebank≈100%
- Deanside≈100%
- Fraser Rise≈100%
- Strathtulloh≈100%
- Thornhill Park≈100%
- Weir Views≈99%
- Rockbank≈94%
- Diggers Rest≈76%
- Truganina≈73%
- Kurunjang≈64%
- Hillside (Melton - Vic.)≈31%
- Melton (Vic.)≈23%
- Brookfield (Vic.)≈18%
- Harkness≈12%
- Caroline Springs≈1%
- Taylors Hill≈0%
- Melton South≈0%
- Burnside (Vic.)≈0%
- Burnside Heights≈0%
- Eynesbury≈0%
- Melton West≈0%
Melbourne context
Melton ranks #13 of 32 councils in Melbourne for highly restricted residential land.
- Yarra Ranges ≈90%
- Boroondara ≈84%
- Yarra ≈84%
- Knox ≈83%
- Manningham ≈74%
- Kingston (Vic.) ≈72%
- Hobsons Bay ≈70%
- Mitchell ≈69%
- Cardinia ≈69%
- Bayside (Vic.) ≈67%
- Nillumbik ≈64%
- Glen Eira ≈61%
- Melton ≈60%
- Merri-bek ≈59%
- Port Phillip ≈56%
- Brimbank ≈52%
- Whitehorse ≈49%
- Melbourne ≈44%
- Hume ≈44%
- Wyndham ≈43%
- Maroondah ≈43%
- Stonnington ≈43%
- Casey ≈41%
- Banyule ≈40%
- Whittlesea ≈34%
- Monash ≈28%
- Greater Dandenong ≈27%
- Mornington Peninsula ≈26%
- Frankston ≈23%
- Maribyrnong ≈17%
- Darebin ≈11%
- Moonee Valley ≈11%
Detailed zoning map
Melton’s residential planning controls, polygon-by-polygon
Every residential zone in Melton
- Low Density Residential ZoneLDRZ2 km²2.8%
- Neighbourhood Residential ZoneNRZ1, NRZ24 km²5.0%
- General Residential ZoneGRZ129 km²35.5%
- Residential Growth ZoneRGZ12 km²2.2%
- Commercial 1 ZoneC1Z1 km²0.9%
- Comprehensive Development ZoneCDZ11 km²1.2%
- Mixed Use ZoneMUZ<1 km²<0.1%
- Urban Growth ZoneUGZ, UGZ1, UGZ2, UGZ3, UGZ4, UGZ5, UGZ6, UGZ7, UGZ8, UGZ9, UGZ11, UGZ1243 km²52.3%
Source: State-published zoning data, residential ex-rural, bounded to the Significant Urban Area. Areas measure the zone polygons drawn here, which include road reserve and unsubdivided land, so they are a different measure from the lot-by-lot areas behind this page’s restricted-land figures.