Glen Boughton flood map & planning overlays
80.5% bushfire-mapped, the highest in Cairns Regional, on 11 ha median lots.
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 Glen Boughton
(Cairns Regional, QLD) - 5.64 km², mapped from live council and
state overlay data. This suburb is highly constrained.
Profile updated 5 November 2026.
Constraint readout
5.64 km² - this suburb is highly constrained by planning overlays.
Elevation hillshade with street names, clipped to Glen Boughton's boundary, with the flood, bushfire and environmental overlays drawn on top.
Nearby suburbs, nearest first
How common is mapped flood risk across Glen Boughton properties?
Counts of properties, not share of land, across 26 analysed Glen Boughton properties; no individual property result is identified.
Lot-level readout
Flood-risk rating across all 26 properties
From LayeredGeo's lot-risk engine: council flood overlays, historical flooding and terrain, resolved to each individual lot in Glen Boughton.
Aircraft noise and flight paths over Glen Boughton
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.
Glen Boughton at a glance
Schools in and near Glen Boughton
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: 4.19 km from the suburb boundary
Secondary: 3.41 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 Glen Boughton address in? Check an address with our free school zone checker.
How Glen Boughton is zoned
Selling in Glen Boughton? 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 5.64 km², Glen Boughton is highly constrained by planning overlays. About 54% of the suburb sits within a mapped flood overlay, and 80% is flagged bushfire-prone. The dominant land-use zone is Rural. The terrain is gently undulating, and the median lot measures about 111,130 m² across 27 parcels.
Who lives in Glen Boughton
Census 2021 figures published by the ABS for the Glen Boughton 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 1026, and decile 9 within Queensland. The national average is 1000.
Population trend, 2001 to 2025
Estimated resident population of Gordonvale - Trinity, the wider ABS statistical area containing Glen Boughton. There is no annual population series published at suburb level, so this describes the surrounding area rather than Glen Boughton itself.
6,364 in 2001 to 11,413 in 2025, up 79%.
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.
Glen Boughton 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 Glen Boughton 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 Glen Boughton. 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 Glen Boughton lot.
Glen Boughton planning - frequently asked
Is Glen Boughton flood-prone?
About 54% of Glen Boughton falls within a mapped flood overlay, against the council-wide suburb average of 55%. Across the suburb, 85% of the 26 properties we analysed carry some level of mapped flood risk, including 22 rated high risk or historically affected. Published flood models are held over parts of Glen Boughton; the free check on the Flood Model Report page says whether one reaches a given address.
Is Glen Boughton bushfire-prone?
Around 80% of Glen Boughton is mapped as bushfire-prone, compared with a Cairns Regional average of 23%.
Is Glen Boughton under a flight path?
No aircraft were observed over Glen Boughton 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 Glen Boughton?
The dominant planning zone in Glen Boughton is Rural, though the suburb also includes Conservation.
Does Glen Boughton have heritage-listed places?
No heritage-listed places are on record within Glen Boughton.
Is Glen Boughton hilly or flat?
Glen Boughton is gently undulating: the median ground slope is about 6%, and 38% of measured points sit on grades of 15% or steeper. Ground level runs from roughly 2 m to 138 m AHD across the suburb.
What is the typical lot size in Glen Boughton?
Across 27 surveyed parcels in Glen Boughton, the median lot size is about 111,130 m². There are also 5 registered easements mapped in the suburb.
Is Glen Boughton an advantaged suburb?
On the ABS SEIFA 2021 index of relative socio-economic advantage and disadvantage (IRSAD), Glen Boughton scores 1026 and sits in decile 8 of 10 nationally and decile 9 within Queensland (decile 1 is the most disadvantaged tenth, decile 10 the least).
Compare nearby suburbs
| Nearby suburb | Distance | Flood mapped | Bushfire-prone |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Trinity | 3.4 km | 41% | 45% |
| Portsmith | 5.4 km | 100% | 1% |
| Cairns City | 6.1 km | 65% | 0% |
| Parramatta Park | 7.0 km | 100% | 10% |
| Bungalow | 7.4 km | 100% | 2% |
| Cairns North | 7.5 km | 52% | <1% |
| Westcourt | 8.0 km | 100% | <1% |
| White Rock | 8.1 km | 93% | 9% |
| Manunda | 8.7 km | 99% | 40% |
| Woree | 8.9 km | 74% | 28% |