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White Hills (Ascot area)

Victoria · Bendigo

Live · ABS ERP June 2025

The weekday morning train from Epsom Railway Station reaches the CBD in 128 min, against 40 min from the middle Victoria area with a timetabled station. Children under 15 are 23.6% of residents, against 17.5% in the middle Victoria area (Census 2021). The median age is 34, lower than the middle Victoria area (39, Census 2021).

White Hills (Ascot area) has 5 schools (4 government, 1 non-government; ACARA School Profile 2025) and 14 NQS-rated childcare services (ACECQA register). The median house price is $650,000, +7.9% YoY (Valuer-General VIC Q4 2025). Population is 16,095 (ABS ERP June 2025); the AM-peak train journey to the CBD takes 128 min (Transport Victoria (PTV) incl. V/Line, static GTFS, timetable from 22 Oct 2026).

White Hills (Ascot area) at a glance

Median house price
$650,000
Up 7.9% in a year
Rent: $510 a week, 3-bedroom house
Family-Fit score
63/100
Mixed for families
How it is calculated
Schools
5
Area centre zoned to Epsom Primary School
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Childcare services
14
12 rated Meeting NQS or above
Population
16,095
+3.0% in a year
Median age
34
23.6% are children under 15
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How the Family-Fit score is built63/100

Family-Fit score

Method published in full
63 /100
Mixed for families

Mixed for families - strongest on childcare & early years, weakest on getting around.

Schools in the area · 20% of the score
73/100

VIC median 75/100

5 schools in this SA2 · average government-school ICSEA 965

Childcare & early years · 15% of the score
100/100

VIC median 100/100

14 NQS-rated services nearby

Everyday amenities · 15% of the score
81/100

VIC median 78/100

27 parks · 1 GP · 3 supermarkets · 10 playgrounds

Getting around · 15% of the score
0/100

VIC median 60/100

128 min to the CBD by train from Epsom Railway Station

Housing affordability · 15% of the score
60/100

VIC median 46/100

Paying over 30% of income on housing: 9.8% of mortgage-holding households, 27.9% of renting households

Families already here · 10% of the score
85/100

VIC median 67/100

23.6% of residents are children aged 0–14 · 44.0% of families are couples with children

Socio-economic profile · 10% of the score
33/100

VIC median 56/100

SEIFA IRSAD decile 4 of 10 nationally

The grey marker on each bar is the median across the 500 Victoria areas we publish a score for (state median overall: 65/100). It is context, not a pass mark.

How this score is calculated

Each published figure for the White Hills - Ascot SA2 is mapped onto 0–100 by fixed thresholds, then weighted. Inputs with no data here are dropped and the rest rescaled - never scored as zero. Every threshold and weight →

Schools in the area 73/100 × 20% → 14.6 points
5 schools in this SA2 · average government-school ICSEA 965
Childcare & early years 100/100 × 15% → 15 points
14 NQS-rated services nearby
Everyday amenities 81/100 × 15% → 12.2 points
27 parks · 1 GP · 3 supermarkets · 10 playgrounds
Getting around 0/100 × 15% → 0 points
128 min to the CBD by train from Epsom Railway Station
Housing affordability 60/100 × 15% → 9 points
Paying over 30% of income on housing: 9.8% of mortgage-holding households, 27.9% of renting households
Families already here 85/100 × 10% → 8.5 points
23.6% of residents are children aged 0–14 · 44.0% of families are couples with children
Socio-economic profile 33/100 × 10% → 3.3 points
SEIFA IRSAD decile 4 of 10 nationally

School results, crime and flood or bushfire overlays are not graded into this score. Limits of the score →

What families notice
In their own terms

What families notice

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Families often notice
  • This address is zoned to Epsom Primary School (government, no fees).
  • Recorded incidents are down 16% on the year before.
  • 27 parks mapped inside this SA2 (OpenStreetMap).
Good to know
  • Property figures are from Q4 2025, the most recent Valuer-General release we have - prices may have moved since.
Source: Templated from the live data on this page - ABS, ACARA, ACECQA, BOCSAR/CSA Victoria, SEIFA 2021.
Living in White Hills - Ascot: family snapshot
Family snapshot

Living in White Hills - Ascot

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A mid-sized suburb particularly popular with young families. Growing quickly - population is up 3.0% in the past year. Many childcare options nearby - 14 NQS-rated services. About a 128-minute train to the CBD. Mostly detached family homes.

Source: ABS population estimates · ABS Census 2021 · ACARA · ACECQA · state transit data (GTFS)
White Hills (Ascot area) compared with Victoria10 measures
White Hills - Ascot compared with the VIC average
Measure White Hills - Ascot VIC average Against VIC
Children aged 0 to 4 8.1% 5.8% Higher
Children aged 5 to 14 15.5% 12.2% Higher
Couple families with children 44.0% 45.2% Lower
One-parent families 18.2% 15.3% Higher
Homes owned outright 28.9% 32.5% Lower
Homes owned with a mortgage 45.5% 37.8% Higher
Homes rented 24.9% 28.0% Lower
Separate houses 95.6% 75.6% Higher
Flats and apartments 0.1% 10.5% Lower
Born overseas 9.9% 30.0% Lower

Source: ABS Census 2021. The VIC figure is the population-weighted average of the 520 VIC areas with a published value. "Higher" and "Lower" describe the number only.

About this area and its boundary

White Hills - Ascot is a locality in the Bendigo area of Victoria. This profile draws on ABS population and Census figures, the ACARA school register and ACECQA childcare ratings for the White Hills - Ascot SA2.

16,095 residents - 23.6% are children under 15, median age 34.

Why “White Hills - Ascot”? The ABS divides the larger suburb of White Hills into several statistical areas (SA2s); this profile covers one part of it. Other parts are listed further down. SA2 boundaries don’t always match suburb boundaries. It covers the gazetted suburbs of Epsom, White Hills, Huntly and Ascot (Greater Bendigo - Vic.), drawn separately on the map above.

Property market

The median house price is $650,000, up 7.9% in a year, and a 3-bedroom house rents for a median $510 a week across the Greater Bendigo council area.

Median house price
$650,000
Q4 2025
House price, change in a year
+7.9%
Median rent, 3-bedroom house
$510
per week, Greater Bendigo council area

Source: Valuer-General VIC Q4 2025 · Homes Victoria (DFFH) Rental Report, Jun 2026 quarter

Homes and households

Who owns the homes
29% Owned outright 46% Mortgage 25% Rented
Families
44% Couple with children 37% Couple, no children 18% One parent
Types of home
96% House 4% Townhouse 0% Apartment

Source: ABS Census 2021. Where the shares do not add to 100%, the rest is "other" or "not stated".

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Housing cost pressuremortgage and rent against income
What households here actually pay

Housing cost pressure

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In White Hills - Ascot, 27.9% of renting households spend more than 30% of their income on rent, and 9.8% of households with a mortgage spend more than 30% on repayments - the ABS's stretched-household threshold (Census 2021).

ABS published figures, not our calculation.

Mortgage over 30% of income
9.8%

VIC avg 15.4%

Share of households WITH a mortgage whose repayments take more than 30% of income. That's 227 of 2,085 households with a stated repayment.

Rent over 30% of income
27.9%

VIC avg 30.9%

Share of RENTING households whose rent takes more than 30% of income. That's 353 of 1,173 households with a stated rent.

The two figures cover different households (mortgage-holding vs renting), so never add them. How the ABS counts these → Grey marker: VIC average (509 for mortgage and 508 for rent). Census 2021 - housing costs have moved since. Not financial advice.

Source: ABS Census 2021 - Mortgage & Rent Affordability Indicator Datasets (via ABS Data by Region, SA2)
What's being built herenew homes approved, year by year
White Hills - Ascot · new dwellings approved

What's being built here

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280 new homes were approved in White Hills - Ascot in the year to June 2025. Councils approved 1,249 new dwellings here across the 6 years to June 2025 - an approval is permission to build, not a home that exists yet.

280

Approved in the year to June 2025

Middle VIC area: 44

1,236

Separate houses

Private sector, over these 6 years

12

Townhouses & apartments

Private sector, over these 6 years

Counts are for the whole White Hills - Ascot statistical area. What these counts include → Dashed line: the median of 491Victoria areas.

Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Data by region, 2011-2025 (cat. 1410.0), sourced from ABS Building Approvals, Australia (cat. 8731.0) (source, CC BY 4.0). Each year is a year ended 30 June, published for the SA2, not the suburb.
About the rent figure

Homes Victoria does not publish a rent figure for this suburb on its own, so this is the median for the whole Greater Bendigo council area: 3-bedroom houses with a lease that started in the June 2026 quarter. Rents inside the council area can sit above or below it.

Source: Homes Victoria (Department of Families, Fairness and Housing), Rental Report, from Residential Tenancies Bond Authority bond lodgements. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Figures are as published; we have not adjusted them.

Schools and childcare

5 schools are located in the area, and the centre of the area is zoned to Epsom Primary School. 14 childcare services are on the national register, 12 rated Meeting the National Quality Standard or above.

Your zoned school Live VIC + NSW + QLD catchments

Epsom Primary School

The government school your child can attend for free by living in White Hills - Ascot.

Sector Government
Years Prep-6
Students 425
ICSEA 967
A picture of students’ family backgrounds - not a ranking or a quality score.

This is the zoned government school for the centre of White Hills - Ascot (VIC catchment data) - addresses elsewhere in the suburb may be zoned to a different school.

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Zoned secondary school
Weeroona College Bendigo Government · 7-12 · 812 students
ICSEA 940 intake context

The government Year 7 zone for the centre of White Hills - Ascot (VIC catchment data) - addresses elsewhere in the suburb may be zoned to a different school.

Also nearby - Catholic & Independent schools (not your catchment)
Holy Rosary School
Catholic 295 students
ICSEA 1052 intake context

Fee-paying schools can’t be enrolled in by zone - they’re shown for context, not as the area’s school quality.

We show school intake context and catchments, not exam results. We don’t publish a school ranking.

All school zones in the Greater Bendigo council area →

To look beyond White Hills - Ascot, every Victoria school is on the Australian schools and catchment zones map.

Find the school zone for an address in White Hills

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Schools in White Hills - Ascot

ICSEA reflects student intake context, not teaching quality (1000 = national average). Source: ACARA School Profile 2025. All VIC schools →

Victorian Senior Secondary Completion and Achievement data source: Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (VCAA).

The VCAA is not associated with SuburbRadar and does not endorse any of the views or recommendations of SuburbRadar. The VCAA's assessment data for a given year cannot be used to predict results for schools or students in subsequent years. Each year's assessment results will vary due to different assessments being used and different populations of students participating in the assessment.

Childcare: 14 services

Exceeding NQS: 3Meeting NQS: 9Not yet rated: 2

National Quality Standard ratings from the ACECQA register, refreshed Oct 2026. Services are matched by suburb name.

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Childcare services, ratings and fees14 services
  • Shine Bright Huntly Kindergarten
    Centre-Based Care · 66 places · Huntly
    Rated Sep 2023 · over 3 years old, check for a more recent assessment
    Exceeding NQS
  • Shine Bright Epsom Kindergarten
    Centre-Based Care · 30 places · Epsom
    Rated Jun 2023 · over 3 years old, check for a more recent assessment
    Exceeding NQS
  • Shine Bright White Hills Kindergarten
    Centre-Based Care · 30 places · White Hills
    Rated Jul 2023 · over 3 years old, check for a more recent assessment
    Exceeding NQS
  • Jenny's Kindergarten - Epsom
    Centre-Based Care · 147 places · Epsom
    Rated Sep 2026
    Meeting NQS
  • Journey Early Learning Centre - Epsom
    Centre-Based Care · 130 places · Epsom
    Rated Jul 2023 · over 3 years old, check for a more recent assessment
    Meeting NQS
  • Aspire Early Education and Kindergarten Whitehills
    Centre-Based Care · 120 places · White Hills
    Rated Oct 2025
    Meeting NQS
  • Napier Street Children's Centre
    Centre-Based Care · 120 places · White Hills
    Rated Nov 2025
    Meeting NQS
  • Great Beginnings Epsom
    Centre-Based Care · 92 places · Epsom
    Rated Dec 2023
    Meeting NQS
  • OSHC Adventures Epsom
    Centre-Based Care · 80 places · Epsom
    Rated Dec 2023
    Meeting NQS
  • Holy Rosary Primary YMCA Outside School Hours Care
    Centre-Based Care · 60 places · White Hills
    Rated Dec 2023
    Meeting NQS
  • White Hills OSHClub
    Centre-Based Care · 55 places · White Hills
    Rated Feb 2024
    Meeting NQS
  • After The Bell Aus- Huntly Primary School
    Centre-Based Care · 45 places · Huntly
    Rated Aug 2025
    Meeting NQS

+ 2 more services in this area.

Average subsidised fee - Bendigo area
Centre-based day care
$14.34/hr
Outside school hours care
$11.69/hr

Mean hourly fee across CCS-approved services, December quarter 2025 - Dept of Education, © Commonwealth of Australia, CC BY 4.0. Published at SA3 level (a wider area than this suburb's SA2), so it's an average across Bendigo and surrounds, not this specific service list.

Verify locations before visiting. A rating over 3 years old is flagged. What the NQS ratings mean → Childcare places per child, by suburb →

Who lives here

Fewer people born overseas than Victoria overall: 9.9% of residents, against 30.0% statewide.

Median age
34
ABS Census 2021
Children under 15
23.6%
Above the VIC average
Born overseas
9.9%
Below the VIC average
Density
238
people per km²

Ages of people here

White Hills - Ascot VIC average

Share of residents in each age band, in years. Source: ABS Census 2021.

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How the area is changingCensus 2011 to 2021
People counted at the Census, 2011 to 2021
+5,711 people
2011: 8,735 2021: 14,446
Median age, 2011 to 2021
No change
2011: 34 2021: 34
Children aged 0 to 14, 2011 to 2021
+1.9 points
2011: 21.7% 2021: 23.6%
Born overseas, 2011 to 2021
+4.5 points
2011: 5.4% 2021: 9.9%
Speak another language at home, 2011 to 2021
+6.3 points
2011: 2.7% 2021: 9.0%
Greater Bendigo council area, official forecast
+28,270 people
2021: 121,220 2036: 149,490

Each line is drawn on its own scale, so compare the numbers, not the heights. Source: ABS Census 2011, 2016 and 2021; Victoria in Future 2023, Victorian Department of Transport and Planning forecast, published for the council area, not the suburb.

Census trends against the middle VIC areafull charts
Three censuses, same boundaries

Which way this area is moving

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The 2011, 2016 and 2021 Censuses for White Hills - Ascot, counted on today's boundaries.

Since 2011, White Hills - Ascot has seen more residents born overseas and more residents speaking another language at home.

People counted
+5,711 people since 2011

Usual residents counted on Census night.

Median age
no change since 2011

Half the residents are older than this, half younger.

Children aged 0–14
+1.9 pts since 2011

Share of all residents. The clearest signal of families arriving or moving on.

Born overseas
+4.5 pts since 2011

Share of all residents born outside Australia.

Speak another language at home
+6.3 pts since 2011

Share of residents who stated a language, speaking one other than English at home.

The dashed line is the median across the Victoria areas we profile. How the three Censuses line up →

Source: ABS Census Time Series Profile 2021 (2011, 2016 and 2021 Censuses, SA2)
How many people will live around hereofficial forecast
Greater Bendigo council area · official projection

How many people will live around here

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The rest of this page looks backwards. This is the one number that looks forward - and it is the state government's own, not ours. Victoria in Future 2023 (Vic. Dept of Transport and Planning) projects the Greater Bendigo council area, which contains White Hills - Ascot along with its neighbouring suburbs, to grow to 149,490 people by 2036: 28,270 more people than the 121,220 counted in 2021.

This is the council area, not White Hills - Ascot. Greater Bendigo is a whole local government area covering many suburbs, and neither state publishes a projection for a single suburb. Growth is never spread evenly across a council - a greenfield estate and an established street inside the same council will move very differently - so read this as the direction of the wider area a suburb sits in, not as a forecast for its own streets. Only the years the publisher itself lists are plotted: nothing is filled in between them, and nothing is carried past 2036. A projection is an assumption about the future, not a measurement of it, and it will be revised - this one was released September 2023. These figures sit on the projection's own series, so they are not directly comparable with the ABS resident-population and Census counts elsewhere on this page, which use different geographies and different years.

Source: Victoria in Future 2023, Victorian Department of Transport and Planning, released September 2023 (source, CC BY 4.0). Published for the council area, not the suburb; figures rounded to the nearest 10.
Where this year's population change came from+3.00% in a year
Population
16,095
ABS estimate, June 2025
Growth in one year
+3.00%
2024 to 2025
Net change
+465
people in a year

Where did the gain come from?

+465
Natural increase
Births minus deaths
+190
Internal migration
Net movers from elsewhere in Australia
+228
Overseas migration
Net arrivals from overseas
+47

Reading the streams: Australian movers from other suburbs drove most of the change.

Growth vs benchmarks
White Hills - Ascot
+3.00%
VIC median
+0.90%
National median
+0.80%
Ages against the state average, band by band
The neighbourhood, in people

Ages of people here

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15.5% of people here are school-age children (5–14) - more than the Victoria average of 12.2%, and 8.1% are under 5. The median age is 34.

0–4 years · before school
8.1%

VIC avg 5.8%

5–14 years · school age
15.5%

VIC avg 12.2%

15–19 years · teens
5.7%

VIC avg 5.6%

20–34 years
21.8%

VIC avg 21.3%

35–54 years
24.6%

VIC avg 26.8%

55–64 years
10.7%

VIC avg 11.5%

65 years and over
13.7%

VIC avg 16.8%

Share of all residents of White Hills - Ascot (ABS Statistical Area 2) at the 2021 Census; the grey marker is the Victoria average. How the bands and averages work →

Source: ABS Census 2021, General Community Profile (SA2)
Households and families
The neighbourhood, in people

Households and families

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62% of families here have children living at home - about the Victoria average of 61%. The largest overseas-born communities are India (1.6%), United Kingdom (1.5%) and Thailand (0.9%). 25% of homes are rented.

Family make-up

Share of all families in the area. A small "other family" group the ABS also counts is not shown.

Couple with children
44%

VIC avg 45.2%

One-parent family
18.2%

VIC avg 15.3%

Couple, no children
36.6%

VIC avg 37.8%

What people live in

Share of occupied private dwellings. Other and unstated structures are not shown.

Separate house
95.6%

VIC avg 75.6%

Semi-detached / townhouse
3.8%

VIC avg 13.5%

Flat or apartment
0.1%

VIC avg 10.5%

Owned or rented

Share of occupied private dwellings. Other and unstated tenures are not shown.

Owned outright
28.9%

VIC avg 32.5%

Owned with a mortgage
45.5%

VIC avg 37.8%

Rented
24.9%

VIC avg 28%

Figures describe White Hills - Ascot (ABS Statistical Area 2) at the 2021 Census; the grey marker is the Victoria average. How these are counted →

Source: ABS Census 2021, General Community Profile (SA2)
Birthplaces, languages and communities
The neighbourhood, in people

Who lives in White Hills - Ascot

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Top 5 overseas birthplaces shown · 94.7% born in Australia or a country not in the top five.

India · growing since 2016
1.6%

VIC avg 3.9%

United Kingdom · established by 2016
1.5%

VIC avg 3%

Thailand · growing since 2016
0.9%

VIC avg 0.1%

New Zealand · established by 2016
0.7%

VIC avg 1.2%

Philippines · established by 2016
0.6%

VIC avg 0.6%

Nearby
Wallan, Kialla and Sunbury - South also have an established India community.
Settlement pattern
Of overseas-born residents who stated when they arrived, 20.7% arrived in the last 5 years (2016–2021) (VIC avg 17.5%) and 27.5% arrived before 2001 (VIC avg 47.4%).
English at home
Of residents who speak a language other than English at home and stated their English proficiency, 17.3% report speaking English “not well” or “not at all” (VIC avg 14.1%) - a self-reported ABS figure across all languages combined, not a judgement of any one community.

Figures describe White Hills - Ascot (ABS Statistical Area 2) at the 2021 Census. The ABS publishes only the five largest communities per area, so a missing name did not rank in the top five. How these are counted →

Source: ABS Census 2021, General Community Profile (SA2)
Socio-economic index (SEIFA)decile 4 of 10
Decile (1 lowest, 10 highest)
Decile 4 of 10
Where this sits in VIC
bottom 40% of Victoria areas

A relative comparison of the whole area against all of Australia - not a safety, liveability, or school-quality measure. What IRSAD measures → Source: ABS SEIFA 2021, IRSAD index (SA2).

Getting around and lifestyle

The morning-peak train from Epsom Railway Station reaches the city in 128 minutes, and the nearest emergency department is Echuca Regional Health, 70.8 km away in a straight line.

3
Supermarkets
Middle VIC area: 1
1
GPs
Middle VIC area: 0
27
Parks
Middle VIC area: 22
10
Playgrounds
Middle VIC area: 10
1
Train stations
Middle VIC area: 0
None mapped
Libraries
Middle VIC area: 0

Mapped inside the White Hills - Ascot boundary. A zero can mean "not mapped" rather than "not there". Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors.

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Train to the city and nearest emergency department

Train to the city

Timetable published

128 min from Epsom Railway Station

Median scheduled weekday morning-peak travel time to the central-city terminus, from the closest station to the middle of this area (3.3 km away in a straight line). Train leg only.

Nearest emergency department

Mapped

Echuca Regional Health · 70.8 km

Straight-line distance from the middle of this area - not a drive time. In an emergency call 000; do not plan around this figure.

Community and recreation
1
Places of worship
Middle VIC area: 1
1
Community centres
Middle VIC area: 0
1
Swimming pools
Middle VIC area: 0
2
Sport and fitness venues
Middle VIC area: 1
Out with a baby
3
Baby-change tables
None mapped
Baby-care rooms

Public-toilet facilities recorded on the National Public Toilet Map - not every place in the area that will let you change a baby.

About this data

Counts of features tagged in OpenStreetMap inside the White Hills - Ascot boundary. “Middle VIC area”: the median of 518 Victoria areas. How these counts and times are made →

Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors · baby-facility counts from the National Public Toilet Map (Continence Foundation of Australia, funded by the Australian Government Department of Health, Disability and Ageing, CC BY 3.0 AU) · Transport Victoria (PTV) incl. V/Line, static GTFS, timetable from 22 Oct 2026

Crime & safety in White Hills - Ascot

Police recorded 189 incidents in White Hills - Ascot in the year ending June 2026, down 16% on the year before. This is a raw count, not a rate or a rating.

Recorded incidents, 2026
189
Change on the year before
-16%
225 in 2025
Recorded incidents, 2021
200
LGA rate, as published
6,720.6
per 100,000 people, Greater Bendigo council area

LGA rate, as published: 8,598 recorded incidents and 6,720.6 per 100,000 people across the whole Greater Bendigo council area, which is larger than White Hills - Ascot. The rate is the agency's own figure - we do not calculate rates. Source: Crime Statistics Agency Victoria, year ending June 2026, released September 2026.

Largest offence categories

Property and deception offences 90
Crimes against the person 57
Justice procedures offences 30
Public order and security offences 10
Drug offences 2
Is White Hills - Ascot safe? Here's what police recorded

Police recorded 189 criminal incidents in White Hills - Ascot in the year ending June 2026 (Crime Statistics Agency Victoria, released September 2026). Greater Bendigo council area, which includes White Hills - Ascot, had 6,720.6 recorded incidents per 100,000 people (LGA rate, as published: Crime Statistics Agency Victoria, year ending June 2026, released September 2026). Counts are often higher where many people visit (shopping centres, stations, nightlife), not only where many people live. SuburbRadar does not rate suburbs as safe or unsafe.

How much crime is recorded in White Hills - Ascot?

189 incidents in the year ending June 2026, against 225 the year before. The largest offence categories were Property and deception offences (90), Crimes against the person (57), Justice procedures offences (30). These are raw counts as published, not adjusted for population. Source: Crime Statistics Agency Victoria, released September 2026. Counts are often higher where many people visit (shopping centres, stations, nightlife), not only where many people live. SuburbRadar does not rate suburbs as safe or unsafe.

Police-recorded incident counts (Years ending June; latest = year ending June 2026). Raw counts, not a rate, and not a judgement about the suburb. Counts are often higher where many people visit (shopping centres, stations, nightlife), not only where many people live. SuburbRadar does not rate suburbs as safe or unsafe. Source: Crime Statistics Agency Victoria, released September 2026. More on crime & safety →

Crime Statistics Agency Victoria data, licensed under CC BY 3.0 AU. Suburb totals are added up from published figures.

Risks

6 of the 7 planning and hazard records we hold show something in this area: flooding, bushfire, heritage controls, traffic noise, aircraft noise and land contamination checks.

Flooding

In an official overlay

34.0% of the area

Bushfire

In an official overlay

47.6% of the area

Heritage controls

In an official overlay

4.7% of the area

Traffic noise

Freeway or highway present

Midland Highway · Napier Street · Powell Street · +2 more

Aircraft noise

In an official overlay

1.1% of the area

Land contamination checks

In an official overlay

0.1% of the area

Each line is the extent of an official record across the whole White Hills - Ascot area - not a risk rating, and a specific address may or may not be affected. Not financial or insurance advice.

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All 9 checks and what each one means

Flooding

In an official overlay

34.0% of the area

Part of this area sits inside a Victorian planning-scheme flood overlay - Land Subject to Inundation, Floodway, or Special Building (overland stormwater). Whether a specific address is affected depends on the property.

Bushfire

In an official overlay

47.6% of the area

Part of this area sits inside the Victorian Bushfire Management Overlay, which triggers extra planning requirements on affected land. The area is also inside the state’s designated Bushfire Prone Area - a separate and much wider designation that makes bushfire construction standards apply to a new home or extension.

Heritage controls

In an official overlay

4.7% of the area

Part of this area sits inside the Victorian Heritage Overlay, so changes to buildings there - extensions, demolition, sometimes even paint colours - need planning approval. It applies property by property: most homes in an area with an overlay are not in it, and being in one is a protection as much as a restriction.

Traffic noise

Freeway or highway present

Midland Highway · Napier Street · Powell Street · +2 more

5 named roads through this area carry OpenStreetMap's highest classification - a freeway, motorway or major highway, whatever the road is called locally, alongside 6 named main roads. Roads are counted by name, not by mapped segment. Where a home sits relative to them matters far more than the count - a street two blocks back can be quiet.

Aircraft noise

In an official overlay

1.1% of the area

Part of this area sits inside a Victorian Airport Environs Overlay - land where forecast aircraft noise around an airport adds building and subdivision requirements. It marks where the planning scheme applies those controls, not how loud a specific home is.

Land contamination checks

In an official overlay

0.1% of the area

Part of this area sits inside the Victorian Environmental Audit Overlay - land where a past use such as a service station, dry cleaner, factory or landfill means an environmental audit must be completed before it can be used for housing, childcare or a school. It flags land that must be checked, not land found to be contaminated, and it applies parcel by parcel.

Acid sulfate soils

None mapped

Victoria's coastal acid sulfate soil mapping covers coastal and estuarine land only, and none is mapped in this area. These soils form in low-lying coastal sediments, so away from the coast and the estuaries there is nothing to map - read this as outside the mapped zone rather than as a soil test.

Recorded crime

Official counts published

189 incidents

Police-recorded criminal incidents in Years ending June; latest = year ending June 2026, down 16% on the prior year. A count, not a rate - busier areas with more shops, stations and visitors record more incidents than quiet ones of the same size. Full breakdown ↑

Social housing

Census figure

1.8% rented from a state or territory housing authority · 0.7% from a community housing provider

Share of occupied private dwellings here with a stated tenure (Census 2021). The middle VIC area is 1.0% public and 0.3% community, across 513 areas. Listed because families ask; it is a fact about who owns the homes, not a judgement about the people in them.

About this data

Every line is an official published record for the White Hills - Ascot area - we don't rate, score or rank any of them. Where a line is missing, treat it as not checked rather than clear. What each line covers and does not →

Source: Vicmap Planning, © The State of Victoria, Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action - CC BY 4.0 · Designated Bushfire Prone Area, © State of Victoria, Department of Transport and Planning - CC BY 4.0 · Crime Statistics Agency Victoria, released September 2026 · ABS Census 2021 (G37 tenure and landlord type) · © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) - road classification

Nearby suburbs

The six closest profiled areas in Victoria, by distance between area centres.

White Hills - Ascot · 4 gazetted suburbs

The suburbs in this area

Live

Everything else on this page is published for White Hills - Ascot as a whole - one ABS statistical area covering 4 separate gazetted suburbs. These are the figures published for each of those suburbs on its own.

Gazetted suburbs inside White Hills - Ascot, with each suburb's own published figures.
Suburb Residents
Census 2021
Schools Median
house price
Epsom 5,014 1 $665k
White Hills 3,620 3 $598k
Huntly 3,585 1 $650k
Ascot 2,571 0 none published

Each row is that suburb's own published figure - nothing here is the wider area's number divided up. Resident counts are the Census 2021 usual-resident count for the gazetted suburb, so they will not add up to the population at the top of this page, which is the ABS's later June 2025 estimate for the whole statistical area: a different measure on a different date. Schools are ACARA-registered schools whose published address falls inside the suburb boundary, which is not the same as the school your address is zoned to. Median house prices are the Valuer-General's figure for the suburb itself, over its most recent reporting period; a suburb with too few sales to publish shows a dash. Every other figure on this page - crime & safety, overlays, commute, amenities, projections, the Family-Fit score - is published for the whole statistical area and cannot be separated by suburb.

Source: ABS Census of Population and Housing 2021, General Community Profile for Suburbs and Localities; ABS ASGS Edition 3 suburb boundaries; ACARA School Location 2025; Valuer-General Victoria median house prices.

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