Suburb profile
Shepherds Flat VIC 3461
Shepherds Flat is located in the Ballarat region of Victoria, postcode 3461. It has 82 properties across 12 streets, almost all houses. Explore every street in Shepherds Flat, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.
About Shepherds Flat
Shepherds Flat, VIC 3461, sits in the Ballarat region and neighbours Basalt, Franklinford, Hepburn and Kooroocheang. Its 12 streets hold 82 properties, all of them houses.
Census figures are for the Daylesford area, which has 9,955 residents, a median age of 53 and an average household of 2.1 people. Median household income is $1,343 a week, the median mortgage repayment $1,600 a month and the median rent $330 a week. Of 4,157 dwellings, 3,953 are separate houses, 157 semi-detached, 8 flats and 28 other; 2,037 are owned outright, 1,343 owned with a mortgage and 611 rented.
Updated October 2026
Who lives in Shepherds Flat
- 9,955Peoplelive in the area
- 53Median ageyears
- $1,343Median household incomea week
- $330Median renta week
Homes by type
- Houses3,953
- Townhouses and semis157
- Flats and apartments8
- Other28
Household
- Median mortgage repayment$1,600a month
- Household size2.1people on average
How homes are held
Streets in Shepherds Flat
- Ayreshire Drive12 properties
- Basalt Road15 properties
- Carrolls Lane3 properties
- Clarkes Road1 property
- Helena Court4 properties
- Hepburn-Newstead Road28 properties
- Lithia Lane4 properties
- Midland Highway2 properties
- Mullers Lane7 properties
- Powell Connection Road1 property
- Wayman Road4 properties
- Yam Gully 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.