Canning Creek flood map & planning overlays
A planning-constraint profile of Canning Creek
(Toowoomba Regional, QLD) - 51.87 km², mapped from live council and
state overlay data. This suburb is highly constrained.
Profile updated 19 September 2026.
Suburb-wide figures; the free map shows which overlays touch your lot.
Constraint readout
51.87 km² - this suburb is highly constrained by planning overlays.
Elevation hillshade with street names, clipped to Canning Creek's boundary, with the flood, bushfire and environmental overlays drawn on top.
Nearby suburbs, nearest first
How common is mapped flood risk across Canning Creek properties?
Overlay percentages say how much land is constrained; these figures say how many properties are actually touched in a suburb-wide analysis of 29 Canning Creek properties. No individual property result is identified on this page.
Lot-level readout
Flood-risk rating across all 29 properties
From LayeredGeo's lot-risk engine: council flood overlays, historical flooding and terrain, resolved to each individual lot in Canning Creek.
Canning Creek at a glance
Schools in and near Canning Creek
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
0 schools providing primary years and 0 providing secondary years. A combined school may be counted in both teaching levels.
Nearest school availability
Primary: 26.53 km from the suburb boundary
Secondary: 26.91 km from the suburb boundary
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 Canning Creek is zoned
Selling in Canning Creek? 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 51.87 km², Canning Creek is highly constrained by planning overlays. Flood mapping covers the suburb and none of it falls within a mapped flood overlay, and 14% is flagged bushfire-prone. The dominant land-use zone is Rural. The terrain is largely flat, and the median lot measures about 885,499 m² across 40 parcels.
Who lives in Canning Creek
Census 2021 figures published by the ABS for the Canning Creek 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 987, and decile 7 within Queensland. The national average is 1000.
Population trend, 2001 to 2025
Estimated resident population of Millmerran, the wider ABS statistical area containing Canning Creek. There is no annual population series published at suburb level, so this describes the surrounding area rather than Canning Creek itself.
3,413 in 2001 to 3,351 in 2025, down 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.
Canning Creek 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 |
Profile last materially updated 19 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 Canning Creek 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 over parts of Canning Creek. 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 (+$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 Canning Creek lot.
See what's in the $9 report →Canning Creek planning - frequently asked
Is Canning Creek flood-prone?
Flood mapping covers Canning Creek and none of the suburb falls within a mapped flood overlay (the council-wide suburb average is 24%). Across the suburb, 0% of the 29 properties we analysed carry some level of mapped flood risk.
Is Canning Creek bushfire-prone?
Around 14% of Canning Creek is mapped as bushfire-prone, compared with a Toowoomba Regional average of 20%.
What is the zoning in Canning Creek?
The dominant planning zone in Canning Creek is Rural, though the suburb also includes Extractive Industry and Unzoned.
Does Canning Creek have heritage-listed places?
No heritage-listed places are on record within Canning Creek.
Is Canning Creek hilly or flat?
Canning Creek is largely flat: the median ground slope is about 2%. Ground level runs from roughly 325 m to 371 m AHD across the suburb.
What is the typical lot size in Canning Creek?
Across 40 surveyed parcels in Canning Creek, the median lot size is about 885,499 m². There are also 1 registered easements mapped in the suburb.
Is Canning Creek an advantaged suburb?
On the ABS SEIFA 2021 index of relative socio-economic advantage and disadvantage (IRSAD), Canning Creek scores 987 and sits in decile 6 of 10 nationally and decile 7 within Queensland (decile 1 is the most disadvantaged tenth, decile 10 the least).
Compare nearby suburbs
| Nearby suburb | Distance | Flood mapped | Bushfire-prone |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bringalily | 9.3 km | 0% | 4% |
| Kooroongarra | 9.4 km | <1% | 14% |
| Woondul | 13.8 km | 0% | 13% |
| Millwood | 14.8 km | 0% | 2% |
| Mount Emlyn | 15.9 km | <1% | 11% |
| Lavelle | 18.4 km | 10% | 1% |
| Stonehenge | 19.3 km | 10% | 19% |
| Clontarf | 19.7 km | 16% | 14% |
| Rocky Creek | 20.9 km | 23% | 5% |
| Millmerran Woods | 21.8 km | 0% | 8% |