Camooweal flood map & planning overlays
Camooweal holds 5 heritage places, joint most in Mount Isa City, on a flat 1.2% slope.
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A planning-constraint profile of Camooweal
(Mount Isa City, QLD) - 9535.45 km², mapped from live council and
state overlay data. This suburb is highly constrained.
Profile updated 5 November 2026.
Constraint readout
9535.45 km² - this suburb is highly constrained by planning overlays.
Elevation hillshade with street names, clipped to Camooweal's boundary, with the flood, bushfire and environmental overlays drawn on top.
Nearby suburbs, nearest first
How common is mapped flood risk across Camooweal properties?
Counts of properties, not share of land, across 166 analysed Camooweal properties; no individual property result is identified.
Lot-level readout
Flood-risk rating across all 166 properties
From LayeredGeo's lot-risk engine: council flood overlays, historical flooding and terrain, resolved to each individual lot in Camooweal.
Camooweal at a glance
Schools in and near Camooweal
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
1 school providing primary years and 0 providing secondary years. A combined school may be counted in both teaching levels.
Nearest school availability
Primary: inside the suburb
Secondary: 113.74 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 Camooweal address in? Check an address with our free school zone checker.
How Camooweal is zoned
Selling in Camooweal? 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 9535.45 km², Camooweal is highly constrained by planning overlays. Flood mapping covers the suburb and none of it falls within a mapped flood overlay, and 59% is flagged bushfire-prone. There are 5 heritage-listed sites on record, and the dominant land-use zone is Rural. The terrain is largely flat, and the median lot measures about 2,021 m² across 220 parcels.
Who lives in Camooweal
Census 2021 figures published by the ABS for the Camooweal 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 813, and decile 1 within Queensland. The national average is 1000.
Age profile
Share of Camooweal's 236 residents in each ABS age band.
Population trend, 2001 to 2025
Estimated resident population of Mount Isa Surrounds, the wider ABS statistical area containing Camooweal. There is no annual population series published at suburb level, so this describes the surrounding area rather than Camooweal itself.
4,235 in 2001 to 4,325 in 2025, up 2%.
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.
Camooweal 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 | Not watched | 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.
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Camooweal planning - frequently asked
Is Camooweal flood-prone?
Flood mapping covers Camooweal and none of the suburb falls within a mapped flood overlay (the council-wide suburb average is 16%). Across the suburb, 0% of the 166 properties we analysed carry some level of mapped flood risk.
Is Camooweal bushfire-prone?
Around 59% of Camooweal is mapped as bushfire-prone, compared with a Mount Isa City average of 36%.
What is the zoning in Camooweal?
The dominant planning zone in Camooweal is Rural, though the suburb also includes Environmental Management and Conservation and Special Purpose.
Does Camooweal have heritage-listed places?
Camooweal has 5 heritage-listed places on record.
Is Camooweal hilly or flat?
Camooweal is largely flat: the median ground slope is about 1%. Ground level runs from roughly 225 m to 273 m AHD across the suburb.
What is the typical lot size in Camooweal?
Across 220 surveyed parcels in Camooweal, the median lot size is about 2,021 m². There are also 7 registered easements mapped in the suburb.
What is the population of Camooweal?
At the 2021 Census Camooweal had 236 usual residents, with a median age of 36 and an average household size of 2.5 people. The wider Mount Isa Surrounds statistical area, which contains Camooweal, went from 4,235 people in 2001 to 4,325 in 2025, up 2%.
Is Camooweal an advantaged suburb?
On the ABS SEIFA 2021 index of relative socio-economic advantage and disadvantage (IRSAD), Camooweal scores 813 and sits in decile 1 of 10 nationally and decile 1 within Queensland (decile 1 is the most disadvantaged tenth, decile 10 the least).
What is the median household income in Camooweal?
Median household income in Camooweal was $1,339 a week at the 2021 Census, against $2,177 for the typical suburb in Mount Isa City. Median rent was $147 a week and the median mortgage repayment $307 a month.
Compare nearby suburbs
| Nearby suburb | Distance | Flood mapped | Bushfire-prone |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gunpowder | 80.3 km | Not mapped | 94% |
| Barkly | 105.7 km | Not mapped | 26% |
| Lawn Hill | 108.2 km | Not mapped | 84% |
| Mount Isa | 129.2 km | Not mapped | 80% |
| Gidya Burke Shire |
143.3 km | Not mapped | 82% |
| Lawn Hill Burke Shire |
145.6 km | <1% | 78% |
| Kalkadoon | 148.7 km | 4% | 23% |
| Lanskey | 150.9 km | 39% | 72% |
| Soldiers Hill | 151.7 km | 29% | 15% |
| Ryan | 152.1 km | 22% | 31% |