Suburb profile
Browns Plains VIC 3685
Browns Plains is located in the Hume region of Victoria, postcode 3685. It has 55 properties across 16 streets, almost all houses. Explore every street in Browns Plains, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.
About Browns Plains
Browns Plains, VIC 3685, sits in the Hume region and neighbours Barnawartha, Cornishtown, Rutherglen and Gooramadda. Its 16 streets hold 55 properties, all of them houses.
Census figures are for the Chiltern - Indigo Valley area, which covers the whole suburb. It had 3,184 residents, a median age of 47 and an average household of 2.4 people. Median household income was $1,493 a week, the median mortgage repayment $1,389 a month and the median rent $260 a week. Of 1,238 dwellings, 1,173 were separate houses, 34 semi-detached, 8 flats and 21 other; 513 were owned outright, 553 owned with a mortgage and 132 rented.
Updated October 2026
Who lives in Browns Plains
- 3,184Peoplelive in the area
- 47Median ageyears
- $1,493Median household incomea week
- $260Median renta week
Homes by type
- Houses1,173
- Townhouses and semis34
- Flats and apartments8
- Other21
Household
- Median mortgage repayment$1,389a month
- Household size2.4people on average
How homes are held
Streets in Browns Plains
- Barnawartha Road10 properties
- Baxter-Whelans Road2 properties
- Chiltern-Howlong Road5 properties
- Doolans Lane2 properties
- Doolans Road4 properties
- Douglas Road1 property
- Fernbank Road4 properties
- Fleggs Road8 properties
- Fraser Road1 property
- Hut Road1 property
- Lades Road1 property
- Mia Mia Road2 properties
- Mills Road1 property
- Murray Valley Highway5 properties
- Old Howlong Road7 properties
- Rooredeane Road1 property
Neighbouring suburbs
Addresses and streets incorporate or were developed using G-NAF © Geoscape Australia, licensed by the Commonwealth of Australia under the Open Geo-coded National Address File (G-NAF) End User Licence Agreement.
Population and housing figures are drawn from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing 2021, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International.
Area summaries are generated from the national address file and ABS Census data, and checked against those figures before publication.