Bentley Park flood map & planning overlays
A median age of 32, 2nd-youngest in Cairns Regional, with 8,360 residents. Young and busy.
Most lots here are flood-mapped. The free check shows how much of one lot the overlay covers.
Free map preview, then PDF reports from $9 - about the price of an iced latte on a public holiday.
A planning-constraint profile of Bentley Park
(Cairns Regional, QLD) - 7.72 km², mapped from live council and
state overlay data. This suburb is highly constrained.
Profile updated 5 November 2026.
Constraint readout
7.72 km² - this suburb is highly constrained by planning overlays.
Elevation hillshade with street names, clipped to Bentley Park's boundary, with the flood, bushfire and environmental overlays drawn on top.
Nearby suburbs, nearest first
How common is mapped flood risk across Bentley Park properties?
Counts of properties, not share of land, across 3,744 analysed Bentley Park properties; no individual property result is identified.
Lot-level readout
Flood-risk rating across all 3,744 properties
From LayeredGeo's lot-risk engine: council flood overlays, historical flooding and terrain, resolved to each individual lot in Bentley Park.
Aircraft noise and flight paths over Bentley Park
The ANEF contour is a published planning forecast and observed overflight is what a sampled tracking feed recorded - neither describes any individual property.
Observed overflight - sampled to
Night movements: not established - night is sampled as often as day, but too few night flights have been seen here to conclude either way.
How this is measured
Traffic is sampled rather than watched continuously, so every figure is a floor: aircraft not captured between samples are not represented. Rates are per 500 m square - the busiest square in the suburb, not a count of flights over the suburb - and a square is only rated where enough traffic was seen to measure it. Altitudes are above mean sea level. Flight paths change with runway use, weather, season and airspace design. This is a record of observed traffic; it is not a noise contour and not a planning control.
Bentley Park at a glance
Schools in and near Bentley Park
Public school-location data shows availability across the suburb; it does not rate schools or assign any individual address to a catchment.
Inside the suburb boundary
2 schools providing primary years and 2 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.
Which school zone is a Bentley Park address in? Check an address with our free school zone checker.
How Bentley Park is zoned
Selling in Bentley Park? 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 7.72 km², Bentley Park is highly constrained by planning overlays. About 50% of the suburb sits within a mapped flood overlay, and 37% is flagged bushfire-prone. There is 1 heritage-listed site on record, and the dominant land-use zone is Low Density Residential. The terrain is gently undulating, and the median lot measures about 720 m² across 3,638 parcels.
Who lives in Bentley Park
Census 2021 figures published by the ABS for the Bentley Park 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 945, and decile 4 within Queensland. The national average is 1000.
Age profile
Share of Bentley Park's 8,360 residents in each ABS age band.
Population trend, 2001 to 2025
Estimated resident population of Bentley Park, the wider ABS statistical area containing Bentley Park. There is no annual population series published at suburb level, so this describes the surrounding area rather than Bentley Park itself.
4,728 in 2001 to 9,214 in 2025, up 95%.
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.
Bentley Park 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 |
| Observed flight paths | Observed | adsb.lol, under the Open Database License |
| Demographics | Available | Australian Bureau of Statistics (2021 Census and SEIFA) |
| School availability | Available | Queensland Government |
Profile last materially updated 5 November 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 Bentley Park 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.
See what's in the $9 report →Published flood models are held over parts of Bentley Park. The free check tells you whether one reaches an address; where it does, a Flood Model Report is +$9 with the planning report.
The Terrain Report shows the fall of the block - contours, cross sections and a 3D model of the lot to spin round in your browser (+$9 with the planning report).
Moving here? The Liveability section adds walking times from the address to schools, parks, shops and transport, and the school zones it sits in (+$9 with the planning report).
Building or pricing a slab? The $119 geotechnical desktop report covers geology, soils, bores and the indicative soil reactivity range to expect for a Bentley Park lot.
Bentley Park planning - frequently asked
Is Bentley Park flood-prone?
About 50% of Bentley Park falls within a mapped flood overlay, against the council-wide suburb average of 55%. Across the suburb, 5% of the 3,744 properties we analysed carry some level of mapped flood risk, including 178 rated high risk or historically affected. Published flood models are held over parts of Bentley Park; the free check on the Flood Model Report page says whether one reaches a given address.
Is Bentley Park bushfire-prone?
Around 37% of Bentley Park is mapped as bushfire-prone, compared with a Cairns Regional average of 23%.
Is Bentley Park under a flight path?
No aircraft were observed over Bentley Park in the period sampled (recent weeks to now). Sampling is intermittent, so that is a floor rather than proof that none fly over. Traffic is sampled rather than watched continuously and flight paths change with runway use, weather and season; the ANEF contour is the planning instrument.
What is the zoning in Bentley Park?
The dominant planning zone in Bentley Park is Low Density Residential, though the suburb also includes Conservation and Open Space.
Does Bentley Park have heritage-listed places?
Bentley Park has 1 heritage-listed place on record.
Is Bentley Park hilly or flat?
Bentley Park is gently undulating: the median ground slope is about 4%, and 9% of measured points sit on grades of 15% or steeper. Ground level runs from roughly 14 m to 84 m AHD across the suburb.
What is the typical lot size in Bentley Park?
Across 3,638 surveyed parcels in Bentley Park, the median lot size is about 720 m². There are also 497 registered easements mapped in the suburb.
Does Bentley Park have a train station?
There is no train station inside Bentley Park itself. The suburb is served by 18 bus stops.
What is the population of Bentley Park?
At the 2021 Census Bentley Park had 8,360 usual residents, with a median age of 32 and an average household size of 3.0 people. The wider Bentley Park statistical area, which contains Bentley Park, went from 4,728 people in 2001 to 9,214 in 2025, up 95%.
Is Bentley Park an advantaged suburb?
On the ABS SEIFA 2021 index of relative socio-economic advantage and disadvantage (IRSAD), Bentley Park scores 945 and sits in decile 3 of 10 nationally and decile 4 within Queensland (decile 1 is the most disadvantaged tenth, decile 10 the least).
What is the median household income in Bentley Park?
Median household income in Bentley Park was $1,831 a week at the 2021 Census, against $1,618 for the typical suburb in Cairns Regional. Median rent was $385 a week and the median mortgage repayment $1,517 a month.
Compare nearby suburbs
| Nearby suburb | Distance | Flood mapped | Bushfire-prone |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edmonton | 1.9 km | 78% | 22% |
| Mount Sheridan | 2.1 km | 41% | 31% |
| White Rock | 4.9 km | 93% | 9% |
| Bayview Heights | 4.9 km | 33% | 37% |
| Wrights Creek | 5.5 km | 100% | 9% |
| Woree | 5.6 km | 74% | 28% |
| Mount Peter | 6.2 km | 100% | 47% |
| Earlville | 6.8 km | 46% | 29% |
| Lamb Range | 7.3 km | 18% | 28% |
| Portsmith | 7.8 km | 100% | 1% |