Ingham flood map & planning overlays
The most residents and schools in Hinchinbrook Shire: 4,455 people, 6 schools.
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 Ingham
(Hinchinbrook Shire, QLD) - 40.55 km², mapped from live council and
state overlay data. This suburb is highly constrained.
Profile updated 7 November 2026.
Constraint readout
40.55 km² - this suburb is highly constrained by planning overlays.
Elevation hillshade with street names, clipped to Ingham's boundary, with the flood, bushfire and environmental overlays drawn on top. Magenta is where aircraft were observed in the sampled period, brightest below 3,000 ft.
Nearby suburbs, nearest first
How common is mapped flood risk across Ingham properties?
Counts of properties, not share of land, across 2,941 analysed Ingham properties; no individual property result is identified.
Lot-level readout
Flood-risk rating across all 2,941 properties
From LayeredGeo's lot-risk engine: council flood overlays, historical flooding and terrain, resolved to each individual lot in Ingham.
Aircraft noise and flight paths over Ingham
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 4 Sep to 7 Nov 2026
typical observed square 0 a day
Night movements: observed, lowest 500 ft - night is sampled as often as day, but night traffic is light, so this is a floor and no rate can be put on it.
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.
Ingham at a glance
Schools in and near Ingham
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
3 schools providing primary years and 4 providing secondary years. A combined school may be counted in both teaching levels.
Nearest school availability
Primary: inside the suburb
Secondary: inside the suburb
Source: Queensland Government school geographic information. Catchment boundaries can divide a suburb and change over time.
Which school zone is a Ingham address in? Check an address with our free school zone checker.
How Ingham is zoned
Selling in Ingham? 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 40.55 km², Ingham is highly constrained by planning overlays. About 100% of the suburb sits within a mapped flood overlay, and 9% is flagged bushfire-prone. There are 2 heritage-listed sites on record, and the dominant land-use zone is Rural. The terrain is largely flat, and the median lot measures about 1,012 m² across 2,719 parcels.
Who lives in Ingham
Census 2021 figures published by the ABS for the Ingham 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 879, and decile 2 within Queensland. The national average is 1000.
Age profile
Share of Ingham's 4,455 residents in each ABS age band.
Population trend, 2001 to 2025
Estimated resident population of Ingham, the wider ABS statistical area containing Ingham. There is no annual population series published at suburb level, so this describes the surrounding area rather than Ingham itself.
4,972 in 2001 to 4,471 in 2025, down 10%.
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.
Ingham 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 7 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 Ingham 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 →Aircraft have been seen below 3,000 ft over about 23% of Ingham. The report's Aircraft Overflight page narrows that to the address itself: how many aircraft a day, how low, and at what heights.
Published flood models are held over parts of Ingham. 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).
Building or pricing a slab? The $119 geotechnical desktop report covers geology, soils, bores and the indicative soil reactivity range to expect for a Ingham lot.
Ingham planning - frequently asked
Is Ingham flood-prone?
About 100% of Ingham falls within a mapped flood overlay, against the council-wide suburb average of 69%. Across the suburb, 98% of the 2,941 properties we analysed carry some level of mapped flood risk, including 1493 rated high risk or historically affected. Published flood models are held over parts of Ingham; the free check on the Flood Model Report page says whether one reaches a given address.
Is Ingham bushfire-prone?
Around 9% of Ingham is mapped as bushfire-prone, compared with a Hinchinbrook Shire average of 36%.
Is Ingham under a flight path?
Aircraft were observed below 3,000 ft over about 23% of Ingham, and over about 28% 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 2,000 ft. At the busiest point in the suburb about 0 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.
What is the zoning in Ingham?
The dominant planning zone in Ingham is Rural, though the suburb also includes Environmental management and conservation and General Residential.
Does Ingham have heritage-listed places?
Ingham has 2 heritage-listed places on record.
Is Ingham hilly or flat?
Ingham is largely flat: the median ground slope is about 1%. Ground level runs from roughly 10 m to 15 m AHD across the suburb.
What is the typical lot size in Ingham?
Across 2,719 surveyed parcels in Ingham, the median lot size is about 1,012 m². There are also 185 registered easements mapped in the suburb.
What is the population of Ingham?
At the 2021 Census Ingham had 4,455 usual residents, with a median age of 49 and an average household size of 2.1 people. The wider Ingham statistical area, which contains Ingham, went from 4,972 people in 2001 to 4,471 in 2025, down 10%.
Is Ingham an advantaged suburb?
On the ABS SEIFA 2021 index of relative socio-economic advantage and disadvantage (IRSAD), Ingham scores 879 and sits in decile 1 of 10 nationally and decile 2 within Queensland (decile 1 is the most disadvantaged tenth, decile 10 the least).
What is the median household income in Ingham?
Median household income in Ingham was $1,028 a week at the 2021 Census, against $1,525 for the typical suburb in Hinchinbrook Shire. Median rent was $210 a week and the median mortgage repayment $1,083 a month.
Compare nearby suburbs
| Nearby suburb | Distance | Flood mapped | Bushfire-prone |
|---|---|---|---|
| Victoria Plantation | 5.2 km | 100% | 15% |
| Gairloch | 6.0 km | 100% | 22% |
| Toobanna | 6.9 km | 98% | 16% |
| Foresthome | 7.5 km | 100% | 1% |
| Trebonne | 8.0 km | 100% | 8% |
| Blackrock | 8.3 km | 99% | 12% |
| Hawkins Creek | 10.6 km | 53% | 60% |
| Cordelia | 11.5 km | 88% | 19% |
| Bemerside | 11.6 km | 78% | 43% |
| Braemeadows | 11.7 km | 100% | 11% |