The Diverse Communities of Brimbank Profile - Brimbank City Council

Housing
Safe, appropriate and affordable
housing is a prerequisite for health.
An area that has a diverse array of
housing options suitable for resident’s
life stage encourages a diverse array
of people to form a strong sense of
community. Flexible housing options
including low, medium and high
density living allow people to move
into an area as young people, stay to
raise families and grow older. This is
called ‘aging in place’ and is vital a
sustainable community.
The following data chapter contains
information that describes current and
future housing options, affordability of
housing across the municipality and
housing tenure trends.
• Housing and Personal
Infrastructure
Housing and Personal
Infrastructure
Dwelling stock
• There were 60,034 dwellings across
Brimbank in 2006. 94.3% were
occupied and 5.7% unoccupied.
Between 2001 and 2006, over 5,000
new dwellings were built across the
municipality. 2
• Of the new dwellings built
between 2001 and 2006, over three
quarters were built as medium
density housing (including semidetached
and apartments of one
or two storeys), whilst 5% were
separate houses. 2
• Although medium density housing
development has grown across
Brimbank, the municipality remains
mainly single stand alone dwellings
of three bedrooms on a standard
block. Compared to Greater
Melbourne, Brimbank currently
has a larger proportion of separate
houses and a smaller proportion of
medium and high density housing.
• There is significant pressure
for residential expansion within
Brimbank from both existing
residents’ movements and from
overseas migration, as well as
residents moving into Brimbank
from municipalities to the east (in
particular the Cities of Maribyrnong
and Moonee Valley). Between 2007
and 2031, Brimbanks dwelling
stock is anticipated to increase by a
further 13,000 dwellings taking the
total number of households to over
73,000 dwellings across the City. 3
60
50
Dwelling type and size, Brimbank and Melbourne SD, 2006 2
Brimbank (C)
Melbourne (SD)
Share (percent)
40
30
20
10
0
Small: Medium: Large: Small: Medium: Large: Other
0–2br 3br 4+br 0–1br 2br 3+br Dwelling
Separate house
Medium & High Density
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