Essendon Property Market & Buyers Agents 2026

The Moonee Valley planning scheme's Heritage Overlay lists precincts with Essendon addresses, such as the Glass Street Precinct, the Mackay Street, Essendon Precinct (3-51 and 4-50 Mackay Street), the Levien Street Precinct (2-20 Levien Street) and the Pascoe Vale Road, Essendon Precinct. On our map reading, the Essendon Railway Station Complex is on the Victorian Heritage Register. Check the address on the planning scheme maps before you plan works.

On our map reading, parts of Essendon are in the Land Subject to Inundation Overlay (LSIO1) and the Special Building Overlay, and in Design and Development Overlay schedules DDO3 and DDO9. Amendment C151, approved with changes in 2016, updated the land in both flood overlays across Moonee Valley to reflect updated flood mapping. Check the address against the overlays before you make an offer.

The state has finalised its North Essendon Activity Centre Plan, part of the Niddrie (Keilor Road) and North Essendon pilot centre in the Train and Tram Zone Activity Centres Program. It provides for more homes in the centre cores, closest to the trams, shops and services along Keilor and Mount Alexander Roads. The plan is named for North Essendon, so check its map to see whether an address is inside it.

Metro Trains gives Essendon station (Buckley Street and Rose Street), Glenbervie station (Glass Street and Napier Street) and Strathmore station (Melfort Avenue and Amelia Avenue) an Essendon 3040 address, all in Zone 1. The Level Crossing Removal Project removed the Buckley Street, Essendon level crossing in 2018 by building a road underpass beneath the rail line.

On our map reading, tram route 59 (Airport West - Flinders Street Station) has stops in Essendon, such as Glass St/Mt Alexander Rd and Fletcher St/Pascoe Vale Rd.

The Department of Education's 2026 list gives Essendon Primary School (38 Raleigh Street), Buckley Park College (59-99 Cooper Street) and Essendon Keilor College (286 Buckley Street) Essendon addresses. Check the school zone for the address if you are counting on a place.

Homes Victoria's moving annual median rent for the Essendon group, for leases that began in the year to September 2025, was $510 a week for a two-bedroom flat, $650 for a three-bedroom house and $550 across all properties. That is the September quarter 2025 report, the latest published at 25 October 2026, and the all-properties figure rests on 1,961 leases. Homes Victoria groups some suburbs for its report and does not list which localities each group contains.

At the 2021 Census, 47.2% of Essendon homes were separate houses, 33.0% were flats or apartments and 19.6% were semi-detached, row or terrace houses or townhouses.

Essendon had 21,240 residents at the 2021 Census, with a median age of 39. Essendon addresses are listed in the Moonee Valley planning scheme.

At the 2021 Census, 32.4% of Essendon homes were owned outright and 29.7% with a mortgage. The median weekly rent at that Census was $380 and the median monthly mortgage repayment was $2,275.