Buyers agents in Newtown

The Greater Geelong Planning Scheme lists heritage areas with Newtown addresses, among them Newtown Hill, Rocky Point, the Woollen Mills, Latrobe Terrace, Aphrasia Street and Upper Skene Street. Places at Newtown addresses that its schedule lists as on the Victorian Heritage Register include Geelong College on Talbot Street, Sacred Heart Convent and College on Retreat Road, Barwon Grange on Fernleigh Street and Armytage House on Pakington Street. Check the address in the planning scheme before you plan works.

Amendment C339ggeePt2ggee, approved with changes and in operation from January 2024, revised the flood overlay maps to implement the flood risk management study for the Lower Barwon River and Lower Moorabool River, and rezoned land on Balcombe Road, Newtown, out of the Urban Floodway Zone. On the current planning map, parts of Newtown are in the riverine flooding overlays FO1 and LSIO1 and in the Special Building Overlay. Check the overlays for the address before you make an offer.

Parts of Newtown are in the design overlay for the West Fyans-Fyans Street Precinct Structure Plan Area, and parts are in the Environmental Audit Overlay.

We found no train station in Newtown. By our map check of the Department of Transport and Planning's timetable data, there are stops in Newtown on bus routes 22, 24, 25 and 43 from Geelong Station.

The Department of Education lists Newtown Primary School on Aberdeen Street, Chilwell Primary School on Pakington Street and Fyans Park Primary School on Cook Street at Newtown addresses, and no government secondary school at a Newtown address. Check the address against the school zone if you are counting on a place.

Homes Victoria's Rental Report for the September quarter 2025 gives a moving annual median weekly rent of $570 for a three-bedroom house and $440 for a two-bedroom flat in its Newtown group, for lettings that began in the year to September 2025. The group sits in the report's Geelong region. The report does not say which suburbs the group takes in, so the figure may not be the suburb's alone.

At the 2021 Census, 77.0% of Newtown homes were separate houses, 20.5% were semi-detached or townhouses and 2.2% were flats or apartments.

Newtown had 10,445 residents at the 2021 Census, with a median age of 40. It is in the City of Greater Geelong council area.

At the 2021 Census, 37.6% of Newtown homes were owned outright and 31.6% with a mortgage. The median weekly rent at that Census was $360 and the median monthly mortgage repayment was $2,167.