Brookhill flood map & planning overlays
Brookhill: 20 ha blocks, nearly all bush on the map at 87.4%.
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A planning-constraint profile of Brookhill
(Townsville City, QLD) - 54.24 km², mapped from live council and
state overlay data. This suburb is highly constrained.
Profile updated 7 November 2026.
Constraint readout
54.24 km² - this suburb is highly constrained by planning overlays.
Elevation hillshade with street names, clipped to Brookhill's boundary, with the flood, bushfire and environmental overlays drawn on top. Magenta is where aircraft were observed in the sampled period, brightest below 3,000 ft.
Nearby suburbs, nearest first
How common is mapped flood risk across Brookhill properties?
Counts of properties, not share of land, across 71 analysed Brookhill properties; no individual property result is identified.
Lot-level readout
Flood-risk rating across all 71 properties
From LayeredGeo's lot-risk engine: council flood overlays, historical flooding and terrain, resolved to each individual lot in Brookhill.
Aircraft noise and flight paths over Brookhill
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 4 Sep to 7 Nov 2026
typical observed square 0 a day
Night movements: observed, lowest 3,000 ft - night is sampled as often as day, but night traffic is light, so this is a floor and no rate can be put on it.
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.
Brookhill at a glance
Schools in and near Brookhill
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
0 schools providing primary years and 0 providing secondary years. A combined school may be counted in both teaching levels.
Nearest school availability
Primary: 1.36 km from the suburb boundary
Secondary: 4.79 km from the suburb boundary
Source: Queensland Government school geographic information. Catchment boundaries can divide a suburb and change over time.
Which school zone is a Brookhill address in? Check an address with our free school zone checker.
How Brookhill is zoned
Selling in Brookhill? 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 54.24 km², Brookhill is highly constrained by planning overlays. Flood mapping covers the suburb and none of it falls within a mapped flood overlay, and 87% is flagged bushfire-prone. The dominant land-use zone is Rural. The terrain is largely flat, and the median lot measures about 204,498 m² across 85 parcels.
Recent development applications in Brookhill
Applications are counted across the whole gazetted suburb from the public Townsville City Council register. No application address or individual property is published here.
Submitted in the past 12 months
The exact total and latest date are suppressed for privacy.
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 8 November 2026. Check the official council register.
Who lives in Brookhill
Census 2021 figures published by the ABS for the Brookhill 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 1035, and decile 9 within Queensland. The national average is 1000.
Age profile
Share of Brookhill's 88 residents in each ABS age band.
Population trend, 2001 to 2025
Estimated resident population of Townsville - South, the wider ABS statistical area containing Brookhill. There is no annual population series published at suburb level, so this describes the surrounding area rather than Brookhill itself.
3,576 in 2001 to 5,861 in 2025, up 64%.
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.
Brookhill 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 |
| Development applications | Available as suburb totals | Townsville City Council |
Profile last materially updated 7 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 Brookhill 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 →Aircraft have been seen below 3,000 ft over about 29% of Brookhill. The report's Aircraft Overflight page narrows that to the address itself: how many aircraft a day, how low, and at what heights.
Published flood models are held over parts of Brookhill. 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 Brookhill lot.
Brookhill planning - frequently asked
Is Brookhill flood-prone?
Flood mapping covers Brookhill and less than 1% of the suburb falls within a mapped flood overlay (the council-wide suburb average is 57%). Across the suburb, 0% of the 71 properties we analysed carry some level of mapped flood risk. Published flood models are held over parts of Brookhill; the free check on the Flood Model Report page says whether one reaches a given address.
Is Brookhill bushfire-prone?
Around 87% of Brookhill is mapped as bushfire-prone, compared with a Townsville City average of 50%.
Is Brookhill under a flight path?
Aircraft were observed below 3,000 ft over about 29% of Brookhill, and over about 42% at any altitude up to 10,000 ft, in the period sampled (4 Sep 2026 to 7 Nov 2026). The lowest measured aircraft was at 1,000 ft, with an average of 3,000 ft. At the busiest point in the suburb about 2 aircraft a day were recorded passing over one 500 m square. 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 Brookhill?
The dominant planning zone in Brookhill is Rural, though the suburb also includes Community Facilities and Medium Impact Industry.
Does Brookhill have heritage-listed places?
No heritage-listed places are on record within Brookhill.
Is Brookhill hilly or flat?
Brookhill is largely flat: the median ground slope is about 3%, and 17% of measured points sit on grades of 15% or steeper. Ground level runs from roughly 22 m to 117 m AHD across the suburb.
What is the typical lot size in Brookhill?
Across 85 surveyed parcels in Brookhill, the median lot size is about 204,498 m². There are also 50 registered easements mapped in the suburb.
What is the population of Brookhill?
At the 2021 Census Brookhill had 88 usual residents, with a median age of 41 and an average household size of 2.7 people. The wider Townsville - South statistical area, which contains Brookhill, went from 3,576 people in 2001 to 5,861 in 2025, up 64%.
Is Brookhill an advantaged suburb?
On the ABS SEIFA 2021 index of relative socio-economic advantage and disadvantage (IRSAD), Brookhill scores 1035 and sits in decile 8 of 10 nationally and decile 9 within Queensland (decile 1 is the most disadvantaged tenth, decile 10 the least).
What is the median household income in Brookhill?
Median household income in Brookhill was $2,062 a week at the 2021 Census, against $1,510 for the typical suburb in Townsville City. Median rent was $335 a week and the median mortgage repayment $3,000 a month.
Compare nearby suburbs
| Nearby suburb | Distance | Flood mapped | Bushfire-prone |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oak Valley | 5.4 km | 0% | 84% |
| Julago | 6.0 km | 2% | 86% |
| Alligator Creek | 6.5 km | 12% | 86% |
| Toonpan | 8.9 km | Not mapped | 90% |
| Roseneath | 9.0 km | 2% | 94% |
| Ross River | 10.4 km | 0% | 28% |
| Stuart | 10.5 km | 75% | 42% |
| Nome | 10.6 km | 51% | 69% |
| Mount Stuart | 10.7 km | 3% | 94% |
| Wulguru | 11.9 km | 51% | 32% |