Long Pocket flood map & planning overlays
Long Pocket: 72.9% flood, 55.5% bushfire, on 6 ha 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 Long Pocket
(Hinchinbrook Shire, QLD) - 43.92 km², mapped from live council and
state overlay data. This suburb is highly constrained.
Profile updated 7 November 2026.
Constraint readout
43.92 km² - this suburb is highly constrained by planning overlays.
Elevation hillshade with street names, clipped to Long Pocket'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 Long Pocket properties?
Counts of properties, not share of land, across 165 analysed Long Pocket properties; no individual property result is identified.
Lot-level readout
Flood-risk rating across all 165 properties
From LayeredGeo's lot-risk engine: council flood overlays, historical flooding and terrain, resolved to each individual lot in Long Pocket.
Aircraft noise and flight paths over Long Pocket
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
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.
Long Pocket at a glance
Schools in and near Long Pocket
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: 5.21 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 Long Pocket address in? Check an address with our free school zone checker.
How Long Pocket is zoned
Selling in Long Pocket? 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 43.92 km², Long Pocket is highly constrained by planning overlays. About 73% of the suburb sits within a mapped flood overlay, and 56% is flagged bushfire-prone. The dominant land-use zone is Rural. The terrain is largely flat, and the median lot measures about 64,419 m² across 162 parcels.
Who lives in Long Pocket
Census 2021 figures published by the ABS for the Long Pocket 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 965, and decile 5 within Queensland. The national average is 1000.
Age profile
Share of Long Pocket's 150 residents in each ABS age band.
Population trend, 2001 to 2025
Estimated resident population of Ingham Surrounds, the wider ABS statistical area containing Long Pocket. There is no annual population series published at suburb level, so this describes the surrounding area rather than Long Pocket itself.
7,200 in 2001 to 6,723 in 2025, down 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.
Long Pocket 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 Long Pocket 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 1% of Long Pocket. 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 Long Pocket. 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 Long Pocket lot.
Long Pocket planning - frequently asked
Is Long Pocket flood-prone?
About 73% of Long Pocket falls within a mapped flood overlay, against the council-wide suburb average of 69%. Across the suburb, 46% of the 165 properties we analysed carry some level of mapped flood risk, including 62 rated high risk or historically affected. Published flood models are held over parts of Long Pocket; the free check on the Flood Model Report page says whether one reaches a given address.
Is Long Pocket bushfire-prone?
Around 56% of Long Pocket is mapped as bushfire-prone, compared with a Hinchinbrook Shire average of 36%.
Is Long Pocket under a flight path?
Aircraft were observed below 3,000 ft over about 1% of Long Pocket, and over about 5% 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 1,500 ft, with an average of 5,000 ft. 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 Long Pocket?
The dominant planning zone in Long Pocket is Rural, though the suburb also includes Environmental management and conservation.
Does Long Pocket have heritage-listed places?
No heritage-listed places are on record within Long Pocket.
Is Long Pocket hilly or flat?
Long Pocket is largely flat: the median ground slope is about 2%, and 17% of measured points sit on grades of 15% or steeper. Ground level runs from roughly 23 m to 103 m AHD across the suburb.
What is the typical lot size in Long Pocket?
Across 162 surveyed parcels in Long Pocket, the median lot size is about 64,419 m². There are also 7 registered easements mapped in the suburb.
What is the population of Long Pocket?
At the 2021 Census Long Pocket had 150 usual residents, with a median age of 47 and an average household size of 2.8 people. The wider Ingham Surrounds statistical area, which contains Long Pocket, went from 7,200 people in 2001 to 6,723 in 2025, down 7%.
Is Long Pocket an advantaged suburb?
On the ABS SEIFA 2021 index of relative socio-economic advantage and disadvantage (IRSAD), Long Pocket scores 965 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 Long Pocket?
Median household income in Long Pocket was $1,531 a week at the 2021 Census, against $1,525 for the typical suburb in Hinchinbrook Shire. Median rent was $150 a week and the median mortgage repayment $1,450 a month.
Compare nearby suburbs
| Nearby suburb | Distance | Flood mapped | Bushfire-prone |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dalrymple Creek | 10.3 km | 47% | 75% |
| Abergowrie | 10.6 km | 58% | 62% |
| Lannercost | 10.7 km | 65% | 78% |
| Garrawalt | 11.7 km | 38% | 89% |
| Hawkins Creek | 13.9 km | 53% | 60% |
| Trebonne | 17.4 km | 100% | 8% |
| Peacock Siding | 19.6 km | 84% | 25% |
| Rungoo Cassowary Coast Regional |
20.7 km | 40% | 63% |
| Wallaman | 21.1 km | 33% | 35% |
| Damper Creek Cassowary Coast Regional |
21.7 km | 46% | 48% |