Gracemere flood map & planning overlays

About 69% of Gracemere falls within a mapped flood overlay, against the council-wide suburb average of 53%. Across the suburb, 16% of the 5,160 properties we analysed carry some level of mapped flood risk, including 824 rated high risk or historically affected. Published flood models are held over parts of Gracemere; the free check on the Flood Model Report page says whether one reaches a given address.

Yes. Recorded flood mapping reaches into Gracemere: 115 of the 5,160 properties we analysed (2.2%) sit at least partly inside a mapped historical flood extent (Historic Flood 2017: 111, Historic Flood 2011: 98). The free address check says whether a given lot is inside one.

Around 14% of Gracemere is mapped as bushfire-prone, compared with a Rockhampton Regional average of 49%.

About <1% of Gracemere sits inside a published aircraft noise contour, and the highest contour present is ANEF 20 - under AS 2021, land between ANEF 20 and 25 is conditionally acceptable for houses, usually with noise attenuation in the build. ANEF contours are forecasts published per airport and used to control noise-sensitive development; they are not a measurement at any one house, and a property can sit under a flight path and outside every contour.

Aircraft were observed below 3,000 ft over about 2% of Gracemere, and over about 50% 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 500 ft, with an average of 6,000 ft. At the busiest point in the suburb about 1 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.

The dominant planning zone in Gracemere is Rural, though the suburb also includes Low density residential and Medium impact industry.

Gracemere has 2 heritage-listed places on record.

Gracemere is largely flat: the median ground slope is about 3%. Ground level runs from roughly 11 m to 38 m AHD across the suburb.

Across 5,233 surveyed parcels in Gracemere, the median lot size is about 800 m². There are also 2,114 registered easements mapped in the suburb.

There is no train station inside Gracemere itself. The suburb is served by 20 bus stops.

At the 2021 Census Gracemere had 12,023 usual residents, with a median age of 32 and an average household size of 2.8 people. The wider Gracemere statistical area, which contains Gracemere, went from 4,820 people in 2001 to 13,305 in 2025, up 176%.

On the ABS SEIFA 2021 index of relative socio-economic advantage and disadvantage (IRSAD), Gracemere scores 914 and sits in decile 2 of 10 nationally and decile 3 within Queensland (decile 1 is the most disadvantaged tenth, decile 10 the least).

Median household income in Gracemere was $1,711 a week at the 2021 Census, against $1,327 for the typical suburb in Rockhampton Regional. Median rent was $340 a week and the median mortgage repayment $1,517 a month.