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Leydens Hill flood map & planning overlays

Leydens Hill: 18.6% median slope and 97.5% local environmental significance.

A planning-constraint profile of Leydens Hill (Rockhampton Regional, QLD) - 4.3 km², mapped from live council and state overlay data. This suburb is highly constrained.
Profile updated 5 November 2026.

Elevation hillshade with street names, clipped to Leydens Hill's boundary, with the flood, bushfire and environmental overlays drawn on top.

Nearby suburbs, nearest first

How common is mapped flood risk across Leydens Hill properties?

Counts of properties, not share of land, across 19 analysed Leydens Hill properties; no individual property result is identified.

Aircraft noise and flight paths over Leydens Hill

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

No aircraft observed
0%
of the suburb, in the sampled period - a floor, not a census

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.

Leydens Hill at a glance

Parcels 24 Median lot 70,036 m² Schools in suburb 0

Schools in and near Leydens Hill

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

0 schools providing primary years and 0 providing secondary years. A combined school may be counted in both teaching levels.

Nearest school availability

Primary: 2.69 km from the suburb boundary

Secondary: 2.53 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 Leydens Hill address in? Check an address with our free school zone checker.

How Leydens Hill is zoned

Rural 93%
Rural residential 7%

Selling in Leydens Hill? 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 4.3 km², Leydens Hill is highly constrained by planning overlays. About 21% of the suburb sits within a mapped flood overlay, and 100% is flagged bushfire-prone. The dominant land-use zone is Rural. The terrain is steep, and the median lot measures about 70,036 m² across 24 parcels.

Who lives in Leydens Hill

Census 2021 figures published by the ABS for the Leydens Hill suburb boundary itself, not a wider region.

Population
10
usual residents, 2021

Socio-economic standing

ABS SEIFA 2021 ranks every Australian suburb. Decile 1 is the most disadvantaged tenth of the country, decile 10 the least.

Advantage and disadvantage (IRSAD) Decile 1
most disadvantagedleast disadvantaged

Score 884, and decile 2 within Queensland. The national average is 1000.

Relative disadvantage (IRSD) Decile 2
most disadvantagedleast disadvantaged

Population trend, 2001 to 2025

Estimated resident population of Mount Morgan, the wider ABS statistical area containing Leydens Hill. There is no annual population series published at suburb level, so this describes the surrounding area rather than Leydens Hill itself.

2,887 in 2001 to 3,090 in 2025, up 7%.

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.

Leydens Hill data sources and coverage

“Not mapped” means we hold no source layer for this suburb - never an all-clear.

DatasetCoveragePublisher
Flood mappingMappedthe relevant council planning scheme and Queensland Government spatial data
Bushfire-prone mappingMappedthe relevant council planning scheme and Queensland Government spatial data
ZoningMappedthe relevant council planning scheme and Queensland Government spatial data
Heritage and environmentMapped where publishedthe relevant council planning scheme and Queensland Government spatial data
Aircraft noise contours (ANEF)Not heldthe relevant council planning scheme and Queensland Government spatial data, Defence
Observed flight pathsObservedadsb.lol, under the Open Database License
DemographicsAvailableAustralian Bureau of Statistics (2021 Census and SEIFA)
School availabilityAvailableQueensland 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 Leydens Hill 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.

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Published flood models are held over parts of Leydens Hill. 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 Leydens Hill lot.

Leydens Hill planning - frequently asked

Is Leydens Hill flood-prone?

About 21% of Leydens Hill falls within a mapped flood overlay, against the council-wide suburb average of 53%. Across the suburb, 21% of the 19 properties we analysed carry some level of mapped flood risk, including 4 rated high risk or historically affected. Published flood models are held over parts of Leydens Hill; the free check on the Flood Model Report page says whether one reaches a given address.

Is Leydens Hill bushfire-prone?

Around 100% of Leydens Hill is mapped as bushfire-prone, compared with a Rockhampton Regional average of 49%.

Is Leydens Hill under a flight path?

No aircraft were observed over Leydens Hill 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 Leydens Hill?

The dominant planning zone in Leydens Hill is Rural, though the suburb also includes Rural residential.

Does Leydens Hill have heritage-listed places?

No heritage-listed places are on record within Leydens Hill.

Is Leydens Hill hilly or flat?

Leydens Hill is steep: the median ground slope is about 19%, and 74% of measured points sit on grades of 15% or steeper. Ground level runs from roughly 257 m to 333 m AHD across the suburb.

What is the typical lot size in Leydens Hill?

Across 24 surveyed parcels in Leydens Hill, the median lot size is about 70,036 m².

Is Leydens Hill an advantaged suburb?

On the ABS SEIFA 2021 index of relative socio-economic advantage and disadvantage (IRSAD), Leydens Hill scores 884 and sits in decile 1 of 10 nationally and decile 2 within Queensland (decile 1 is the most disadvantaged tenth, decile 10 the least).

Compare nearby suburbs

Nearby suburbDistanceFlood mappedBushfire-prone
Johnsons Hill 1.7 km 19% 97%
Moongan 1.7 km 34% 93%
Baree 2.7 km 44% 73%
Struck Oil 3.2 km 26% 98%
Mount Morgan 3.6 km 27% 56%
Walterhall 3.7 km 37% 44%
The Mine 5.0 km 31% 70%
Limestone 5.6 km 21% 99%
Hamilton Creek 7.2 km 37% 41%
Horse Creek 7.4 km 39% 71%

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