Mount Elliot flood map & planning overlays
Mount Elliot: Townsville City's steepest suburb at 34%, and 100% environmental area, joint top in Queensland.
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A planning-constraint profile of Mount Elliot
(Townsville City, QLD) - 265.75 km², mapped from live council and
state overlay data. This suburb is highly constrained.
Profile updated 7 November 2026.
Constraint readout
265.75 km² - this suburb is highly constrained by planning overlays.
Elevation hillshade with street names, clipped to Mount Elliot'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 Mount Elliot properties?
Counts of properties, not share of land, across 2 analysed Mount Elliot properties; no individual property result is identified.
Lot-level readout
Flood-risk rating across all 2 properties
From LayeredGeo's lot-risk engine: council flood overlays, historical flooding and terrain, resolved to each individual lot in Mount Elliot.
Aircraft noise and flight paths over Mount Elliot
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 1 a day
Night movements: observed, lowest 1,000 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.
Mount Elliot at a glance
Schools in and near Mount Elliot
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: 8.29 km from the suburb boundary
Secondary: 16.67 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 Mount Elliot address in? Check an address with our free school zone checker.
How Mount Elliot is zoned
Selling in Mount Elliot? 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 265.75 km², Mount Elliot is highly constrained by planning overlays. Flood mapping covers the suburb and none of it falls within a mapped flood overlay, and 100% is flagged bushfire-prone. The dominant land-use zone is Conservation. The terrain is steep, and the median lot measures about 45,430 m² across 3 parcels.
Recent development applications in Mount Elliot
Applications are counted across the whole gazetted suburb from the public Townsville City Council register. No application address or individual property is published here.
Submitted in the past 12 months
No geocoded application submissions were found for this suburb in the period.
Counts depend on applications that the council publishes and that can be assigned to a suburb. Categories can overlap when one application covers several types. Totals below five and their latest dates are suppressed. Register last synchronised 8 November 2026. Check the official council register.
Mount Elliot 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 | Not available | Australian Bureau of Statistics (2021 Census and SEIFA) |
| School availability | Available | Queensland Government |
| Development applications | Available as suburb totals | Townsville City Council |
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 Mount Elliot 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 2% of Mount Elliot. 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 Mount Elliot. 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 Mount Elliot lot.
Mount Elliot planning - frequently asked
Is Mount Elliot flood-prone?
Flood mapping covers Mount Elliot and less than 1% of the suburb falls within a mapped flood overlay (the council-wide suburb average is 57%). Across the suburb, 0% of the 2 properties we analysed carry some level of mapped flood risk. Published flood models are held over parts of Mount Elliot; the free check on the Flood Model Report page says whether one reaches a given address.
Is Mount Elliot bushfire-prone?
Around 100% of Mount Elliot is mapped as bushfire-prone, compared with a Townsville City average of 50%.
Is Mount Elliot under a flight path?
Aircraft were observed below 3,000 ft over about 2% of Mount Elliot, 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 6,000 ft. At the busiest point in the suburb about 3 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 Mount Elliot?
The dominant planning zone in Mount Elliot is Conservation, though the suburb also includes Rural and Community Facilities.
Does Mount Elliot have heritage-listed places?
No heritage-listed places are on record within Mount Elliot.
Is Mount Elliot hilly or flat?
Mount Elliot is steep: the median ground slope is about 34%, and 100% of measured points sit on grades of 15% or steeper. Ground level runs from roughly 49 m to 60 m AHD across the suburb.
What is the typical lot size in Mount Elliot?
Across 3 surveyed parcels in Mount Elliot, the median lot size is about 45,430 m².
Compare nearby suburbs
| Nearby suburb | Distance | Flood mapped | Bushfire-prone |
|---|---|---|---|
| Toonpan | 8.7 km | Not mapped | 90% |
| Alligator Creek | 10.4 km | 12% | 86% |
| Brookhill | 12.8 km | <1% | 87% |
| Majors Creek | 14.0 km | 27% | 77% |
| Nome | 16.3 km | 51% | 69% |
| Julago | 16.5 km | 2% | 86% |
| Woodstock | 16.9 km | 16% | 63% |
| Ross River | 17.6 km | 0% | 28% |
| Oak Valley | 17.9 km | 0% | 84% |
| Barringha | 18.3 km | Not mapped | 69% |