Cooloolabin flood map & planning overlays
A planning-constraint profile of Cooloolabin
(Sunshine Coast Regional, QLD) - 32.59 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
32.59 km² - this suburb is highly constrained by planning overlays.
Elevation hillshade with street names, clipped to Cooloolabin's boundary, with the flood, bushfire and environmental overlays drawn on top.
Nearby suburbs, nearest first
How common is mapped flood risk across Cooloolabin properties?
Overlay percentages say how much land is constrained; these figures say how many properties are actually touched in a suburb-wide analysis of 136 Cooloolabin properties. No individual property result is identified on this page.
Lot-level readout
Flood-risk rating across all 136 properties
From LayeredGeo's lot-risk engine: council flood overlays, historical flooding and terrain, resolved to each individual lot in Cooloolabin.
Cooloolabin at a glance
Schools in and near Cooloolabin
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: 2.24 km from the suburb boundary
Secondary: 5.58 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 Cooloolabin is zoned
Selling in Cooloolabin? 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 32.59 km², Cooloolabin is highly constrained by planning overlays. About 2% of the suburb sits within a mapped flood overlay, and 83% is flagged bushfire-prone. There is 1 heritage-listed site on record, and the dominant land-use zone is Environmental Management and Conservation. The terrain is hilly, and the median lot measures about 30,024 m² across 203 parcels.
Recent development applications in Cooloolabin
Applications are counted across the whole gazetted suburb from the public Sunshine Coast 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 20 September 2026. Check the official council register.
Who lives in Cooloolabin
Census 2021 figures published by the ABS for the Cooloolabin 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 953, and decile 5 within Queensland. The national average is 1000.
Age profile
Share of Cooloolabin's 311 residents in each ABS age band.
Population trend, 2001 to 2025
Estimated resident population of Maroochy Hinterland, the wider ABS statistical area containing Cooloolabin. There is no annual population series published at suburb level, so this describes the surrounding area rather than Cooloolabin itself.
5,489 in 2001 to 7,415 in 2025, up 35%.
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.
Cooloolabin 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 |
| Development applications | Available as suburb totals | Sunshine Coast Council |
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 Cooloolabin 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 Cooloolabin. 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 Cooloolabin lot.
See what's in the $9 report →Cooloolabin planning - frequently asked
Is Cooloolabin flood-prone?
About 2% of Cooloolabin falls within a mapped flood overlay, against the council-wide suburb average of 30%. Across the suburb, 10% of the 136 properties we analysed carry some level of mapped flood risk, including 9 rated high risk or historically affected.
Is Cooloolabin bushfire-prone?
Around 83% of Cooloolabin is mapped as bushfire-prone, compared with a Sunshine Coast Regional average of 38%.
What is the zoning in Cooloolabin?
The dominant planning zone in Cooloolabin is Environmental Management and Conservation, though the suburb also includes Rural and Sport and Recreation.
Does Cooloolabin have heritage-listed places?
Cooloolabin has 1 heritage-listed place on record.
Is Cooloolabin hilly or flat?
Cooloolabin is hilly: the median ground slope is about 14%, and 46% of measured points sit on grades of 15% or steeper. Ground level runs from roughly 38 m to 305 m AHD across the suburb.
What is the typical lot size in Cooloolabin?
Across 203 surveyed parcels in Cooloolabin, the median lot size is about 30,024 m². There are also 37 registered easements mapped in the suburb.
What is the population of Cooloolabin?
At the 2021 Census Cooloolabin had 311 usual residents, with a median age of 45 and an average household size of 2.7 people. The wider Maroochy Hinterland statistical area, which contains Cooloolabin, went from 5,489 people in 2001 to 7,415 in 2025, up 35%.
Is Cooloolabin an advantaged suburb?
On the ABS SEIFA 2021 index of relative socio-economic advantage and disadvantage (IRSAD), Cooloolabin scores 953 and sits in decile 4 of 10 nationally and decile 5 within Queensland (decile 1 is the most disadvantaged tenth, decile 10 the least).
What is the median household income in Cooloolabin?
Median household income in Cooloolabin was $1,199 a week at the 2021 Census, against $1,677 for the typical suburb in Sunshine Coast Regional. Median rent was $330 a week and the median mortgage repayment $1,886 a month.
Compare nearby suburbs
| Nearby suburb | Distance | Flood mapped | Bushfire-prone |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kiamba | 4.3 km | 12% | 62% |
| Bridges | 4.9 km | 30% | 37% |
| Eerwah Vale | 6.7 km | 8% | 48% |
| North Arm | 6.8 km | 21% | 50% |
| Yandina | 7.2 km | 54% | 27% |
| Image Flat | 7.6 km | 1% | 35% |
| Eerwah Vale Noosa Shire |
7.6 km | 0% | 97% |
| Kureelpa | 8.0 km | 14% | 35% |
| Ninderry | 8.0 km | 26% | 59% |
| Kulangoor | 8.2 km | 8% | 64% |