Morningside flood map & planning overlays

About 37% of Morningside falls within a mapped flood overlay, against the council-wide suburb average of 31%. Across the suburb, 16% of the 6,804 properties we analysed carry some level of mapped flood risk, including 536 rated high risk or historically affected. Modelled flood depth, velocity and flood level are held for about 6,800 Morningside addresses, from published flood studies; the free check on the Flood Model Report page says whether a model reaches a given address.

Yes. Recorded flood mapping reaches into Morningside: 442 of the 6,804 properties we analysed (6.5%) sit at least partly inside a mapped historical flood extent (Historic Flood 1974: 349, February 2022: 229, January 2011: 138). The free address check says whether a given lot is inside one.

Around 8% of Morningside is mapped as bushfire-prone, compared with a Brisbane City average of 27%.

About 7% of Morningside 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 67% of Morningside, and over about 85% 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 1,500 ft. At the busiest point in the suburb about 125 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 Morningside is Low density residential, though the suburb also includes General industry B and Low-medium density residential (3 or 4 storey mix).

Morningside has 20 heritage-listed places on record.

Morningside is gently undulating: the median ground slope is about 7%, and 6% of measured points sit on grades of 15% or steeper. Ground level runs from roughly 3 m to 34 m AHD across the suburb.

Across 6,627 surveyed parcels in Morningside, the median lot size is about 415 m². There are also 825 registered easements mapped in the suburb.

Yes - Morningside has 1 train station: Morningside station. It is also served by 54 bus stops.

At the 2021 Census Morningside had 11,755 usual residents, with a median age of 34 and an average household size of 2.3 people. The wider Morningside - Seven Hills statistical area, which contains Morningside, went from 9,335 people in 2001 to 16,055 in 2025, up 72%.

On the ABS SEIFA 2021 index of relative socio-economic advantage and disadvantage (IRSAD), Morningside scores 1089 and sits in decile 10 of 10 nationally and decile 10 within Queensland (decile 1 is the most disadvantaged tenth, decile 10 the least).

Median household income in Morningside was $2,280 a week at the 2021 Census, against $2,122 for the typical suburb in Brisbane City. Median rent was $430 a week and the median mortgage repayment $2,132 a month.