Adele Scharper
Community Engagement and Parks Projects Officer
Parks and Open Space
- Phone
- 03 9932 1289
- Mobile
- 0472 625 035
NRS users phone 133 677 and quote 1300 179 944
Urban Forest Program
Tree Canopy Dashboard
Exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity combine into the overall index; higher exposure/sensitivity and lower adaptive capacity drive vulnerability up.
| Total Population | – |
| Median Age | – |
| Median Household Income (weekly) | – |
| SEIFA (Disadvantage decile) | – |
| Total Dwellings | – |
Population, age and income are population-weighted rollups of SA1-level figures; SEIFA is the Index of Relative Socio-Economic Disadvantage (IRSD), decile 1 = most disadvantaged, 10 = least.
To grow a healthy, resilient urban forest across Hobsons Bay — on every street, in every park and reserve, and in our industrial precincts — so that people have shade, cooler neighbourhoods and nature close to home.
The urban forest is all the trees on public and private land: avenues, street trees, individual trees and groves. Hobsons Bay has one of the lowest levels of tree canopy of any Victorian municipality, and the Urban Forest Strategy and Action Plan, adopted by Council on 8 September 2020, sets out how we change that.
Council is aiming for 40 per cent canopy in public parks, streets and private residential zones, and 20 per cent in industrial zones. The Canopy Delivery Plan puts that into action through:
Reaching 30 per cent means knowing where canopy is growing, where it is being lost, and where planting will make the biggest difference. This dashboard brings the aerial canopy survey (2020–2026) together with modelled forecasts, land ownership, roads, open space, heat vulnerability and census data, suburb by suburb and property by property — so the whole community can track progress towards the target.
Sources: Council’s Urban Forest Strategy and Hobsons Bay Canopy Cover pages.
NRS users phone 133 677 and quote 1300 179 944
NRS users phone 133 677 and quote 1300 179 944