Bald Hills flood map & planning overlays
A planning-constraint profile of Bald Hills
(Brisbane City, QLD) - 12.87 km², mapped from live council and
state overlay data. This suburb is highly constrained.
Profile updated 12 September 2026.
Suburb-wide figures; the free map shows which overlays touch your lot.
Constraint readout
12.87 km² - this suburb is highly constrained by planning overlays.
Elevation hillshade with street names, clipped to Bald Hills's boundary, with the flood, bushfire and environmental overlays drawn on top.
Nearby suburbs, nearest first
How common is mapped flood risk across Bald Hills properties?
Overlay percentages say how much land is constrained; these figures say how many properties are actually touched in a suburb-wide analysis of 3,344 Bald Hills properties. No individual property result is identified on this page.
Lot-level readout
Flood-risk rating across all 3,344 properties
From LayeredGeo's lot-risk engine: council flood overlays, historical flooding and terrain, resolved to each individual lot in Bald Hills.
Bald Hills flood history and overland flow
These are suburb-wide totals across 3,344 analysed properties. They show how common each mapped category is across Bald Hills; they do not identify or describe any individual property.
Recorded historical flood mapping
387 analysed properties intersect at least one mapped historical event extent.
- February 2022: 387
Mapped overland flow
434 analysed properties carry a mapped overland-flow category.
- Low: 228
- Medium: 128
- High: 36
- Affected: 42
Source: Brisbane City Council flood mapping, aggregated by LayeredGeo. Categories are only shown where at least five analysed properties share them. An address-level check is still required to determine whether a particular lot is mapped.
Bald Hills at a glance
Schools in and near Bald Hills
Public school-location data shows availability across the suburb. These figures do not rate schools and do not assign a particular address to a catchment.
Inside the suburb boundary
2 schools providing primary years and 1 providing secondary years. A combined school may be counted in both teaching levels.
Nearest school availability
Primary: inside the suburb
Secondary: inside the suburb
Source: Queensland Government school geographic information. Catchment boundaries can divide a suburb and change over time; use the official catchment finder for a specific address.
How Bald Hills is zoned
Selling in Bald Hills? The lot-level zone is the zoning Part 3 of Queensland's Form 2 seller disclosure statement asks for - see our Form 2 planning data guide.
Across its 12.87 km², Bald Hills is highly constrained by planning overlays. About 75% of the suburb sits within a mapped flood overlay, and 10% is flagged bushfire-prone. There are 7 heritage-listed sites on record, and the dominant land-use zone is Conservation (Metropolitan). The terrain is largely flat, and the median lot measures about 608 m² across 3,116 parcels.
Recent development applications in Bald Hills
Applications are counted across the whole gazetted suburb from the public Brisbane City Council register. No application address or individual property is published here.
Submitted in the past 12 months
Latest included submission: 16 September 2026.
Previous 12 months: 16 (31% higher in the latest period).
Common application types
- Reconfiguring a lot: 11
Counts depend on applications that the council publishes and that can be assigned to a suburb. Categories can overlap when one application covers several types. Totals below five and their latest dates are suppressed. Register last synchronised 18 September 2026. Check the official council register.
Who lives in Bald Hills
Census 2021 figures published by the ABS for the Bald Hills suburb boundary itself, not a wider region.
Socio-economic standing
ABS SEIFA 2021 ranks every Australian suburb. Decile 1 is the most disadvantaged tenth of the country, decile 10 the least.
Score 986, and decile 7 within Queensland. The national average is 1000.
Age profile
Share of Bald Hills's 7,000 residents in each ABS age band.
Population trend, 2001 to 2025
Estimated resident population of Bald Hills, the wider ABS statistical area containing Bald Hills. There is no annual population series published at suburb level, so this describes the surrounding area rather than Bald Hills itself.
5,675 in 2001 to 8,412 in 2025, up 48%.
Source: ABS Census 2021 and SEIFA 2021 (Suburbs and Localities), Regional Population (SA2), CC BY 4.0. Small counts are randomly adjusted by the ABS.
Bald Hills property market snapshot
Queensland Government publishes this as a SA2 market series for Bald Hills, the wider statistical area containing Bald Hills. It is not a valuation and is not specific to this suburb or any individual property.
House sales
Median sale price from 123 sales over 12 months to March 2026.
Unit sales
Median sale price from 16 sales over 12 months to March 2026.
Source: Queensland Government Statistician's Office (QGSO). View the source profile. The same SA2 figure can appear on several suburb pages within that statistical area.
Bald Hills data sources and coverage
“Not mapped” means we hold no source layer for this suburb - never an all-clear.
| Dataset | Coverage | Publisher |
|---|---|---|
| Flood mapping | Mapped | the relevant council planning scheme and Queensland Government spatial data |
| Bushfire-prone mapping | Mapped | the relevant council planning scheme and Queensland Government spatial data |
| Zoning | Mapped | the relevant council planning scheme and Queensland Government spatial data |
| Heritage and environment | Mapped where published | the relevant council planning scheme and Queensland Government spatial data |
| Aircraft noise contours (ANEF) | Not held | the relevant council planning scheme and Queensland Government spatial data, Defence |
| Demographics | Available | Australian Bureau of Statistics (2021 Census and SEIFA) |
| School availability | Available | Queensland Government |
| Market statistics | Available at SA2 level | Queensland Government Statistician's Office (QGSO) |
| Development applications | Available as suburb totals | Brisbane City Council |
Profile last materially updated 12 September 2026. See the methodology and full source list. Source data changes over time and critical decisions should be checked with the responsible authority.
Check a specific Bald Hills address
See exactly which overlays touch a single property - the interactive map is free. Need it on paper? A full planning PDF is just $9.
Published flood models are held here: a Flood Model Report is available for about 3,300 Bald Hills addresses (+$9 with the planning report).
The Terrain Report shows the fall of the block - contours, cross sections and a 3D model of the lot (+$9 with the planning report).
Building or pricing a slab? The $119 geotechnical desktop report covers geology, soils, bores and an indicative AS 2870 site class for a Bald Hills lot.
See what's in the $9 report →Bald Hills planning - frequently asked
Is Bald Hills flood-prone?
About 75% of Bald Hills falls within a mapped flood overlay, against the council-wide suburb average of 40%. Across the suburb, 16% of the 3,344 properties we analysed carry some level of mapped flood risk, including 276 rated high risk or historically affected.
Is Bald Hills bushfire-prone?
Around 10% of Bald Hills is mapped as bushfire-prone, compared with a Brisbane City average of 27%.
What is the zoning in Bald Hills?
The dominant planning zone in Bald Hills is Conservation (Metropolitan), though the suburb also includes Rural and Low density residential.
Does Bald Hills have heritage-listed places?
Bald Hills has 7 heritage-listed places on record.
Is Bald Hills hilly or flat?
Bald Hills is largely flat: the median ground slope is about 2%, and 1% of measured points sit on grades of 15% or steeper. Ground level runs from roughly 3 m to 22 m AHD across the suburb.
What is the typical lot size in Bald Hills?
Across 3,116 surveyed parcels in Bald Hills, the median lot size is about 608 m². There are also 169 registered easements mapped in the suburb.
Does Bald Hills have a train station?
Yes - Bald Hills has 1 train station: Bald Hills station. It is also served by 30 bus stops.
What is the population of Bald Hills?
At the 2021 Census Bald Hills had 7,000 usual residents, with a median age of 36 and an average household size of 2.7 people. The wider Bald Hills statistical area, which contains Bald Hills, went from 5,675 people in 2001 to 8,412 in 2025, up 48%.
Is Bald Hills an advantaged suburb?
On the ABS SEIFA 2021 index of relative socio-economic advantage and disadvantage (IRSAD), Bald Hills scores 986 and sits in decile 5 of 10 nationally and decile 7 within Queensland (decile 1 is the most disadvantaged tenth, decile 10 the least).
What is the median household income in Bald Hills?
Median household income in Bald Hills was $1,931 a week at the 2021 Census, against $2,122 for the typical suburb in Brisbane City. Median rent was $388 a week and the median mortgage repayment $1,733 a month.
Compare nearby suburbs
| Nearby suburb | Distance | Flood mapped | Bushfire-prone |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bracken Ridge | 2.0 km | 31% | 7% |
| Strathpine Moreton Bay City |
3.5 km | 70% | 23% |
| Brendale Moreton Bay City |
4.0 km | 77% | 12% |
| Fitzgibbon | 4.1 km | 70% | 22% |
| Brighton | 4.2 km | 62% | 16% |
| Carseldine | 4.3 km | 34% | 15% |
| Murrumba Downs Moreton Bay City |
4.4 km | 37% | 10% |
| Griffin Moreton Bay City |
4.7 km | 87% | 38% |
| Lawnton Moreton Bay City |
4.7 km | 80% | 14% |
| Deagon | 4.7 km | 57% | 4% |