Mount Stuart flood map & planning overlays
A planning-constraint profile of Mount Stuart
(Townsville City, QLD) - 70.09 km², mapped from live council and
state overlay data. This suburb is highly constrained.
Profile updated 19 September 2026.
Suburb-wide figures; the free map shows which overlays touch your lot.
Constraint readout
70.09 km² - this suburb is highly constrained by planning overlays.
Elevation hillshade with street names, clipped to Mount Stuart's boundary, with the flood, bushfire and environmental overlays drawn on top.
Nearby suburbs, nearest first
How common is mapped flood risk across Mount Stuart properties?
Overlay percentages say how much land is constrained; these figures say how many properties are actually touched in a suburb-wide analysis of 28 Mount Stuart properties. No individual property result is identified on this page.
Lot-level readout
Flood-risk rating across all 28 properties
From LayeredGeo's lot-risk engine: council flood overlays, historical flooding and terrain, resolved to each individual lot in Mount Stuart.
Mount Stuart at a glance
Schools in and near Mount Stuart
Public school-location data shows availability across the suburb. These figures do not rate schools and do not assign a particular 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: 0.39 km from the suburb boundary
Secondary: 0.72 km from the suburb boundary
Source: Queensland Government school geographic information. Catchment boundaries can divide a suburb and change over time; use the official catchment finder for a specific address.
How Mount Stuart is zoned
Selling in Mount Stuart? 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 70.09 km², Mount Stuart is highly constrained by planning overlays. Flood mapping covers the suburb and none of it falls within a mapped flood overlay, and 94% is flagged bushfire-prone. There is 1 heritage-listed site on record, and the dominant land-use zone is Open Space. The terrain is hilly, and the median lot measures about 16,973 m² across 31 parcels.
Recent development applications in Mount Stuart
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 19 September 2026. Check the official council register.
Who lives in Mount Stuart
Census 2021 figures published by the ABS for the Mount Stuart 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 1122, and decile 10 within Queensland. The national average is 1000.
Age profile
Share of Mount Stuart's 95 residents in each ABS age band.
Population trend, 2001 to 2025
Estimated resident population of Douglas, the wider ABS statistical area containing Mount Stuart. There is no annual population series published at suburb level, so this describes the surrounding area rather than Mount Stuart itself.
3,282 in 2001 to 8,318 in 2025, up 153%.
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.
Mount Stuart 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 |
| Demographics | 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 19 September 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 Stuart 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.
Published flood models are held over parts of Mount Stuart. 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 (+$9 with the planning report).
Building or pricing a slab? The $119 geotechnical desktop report covers geology, soils, bores and an indicative AS 2870 site class for a Mount Stuart lot.
See what's in the $9 report →Mount Stuart planning - frequently asked
Is Mount Stuart flood-prone?
Flood mapping covers Mount Stuart and less than 1% of the suburb falls within a mapped flood overlay (the council-wide suburb average is 39%). Across the suburb, 0% of the 28 properties we analysed carry some level of mapped flood risk.
Is Mount Stuart bushfire-prone?
Around 94% of Mount Stuart is mapped as bushfire-prone, compared with a Townsville City average of 50%.
What is the zoning in Mount Stuart?
The dominant planning zone in Mount Stuart is Open Space, though the suburb also includes Rural and Community Facilities.
Does Mount Stuart have heritage-listed places?
Mount Stuart has 1 heritage-listed place on record.
Is Mount Stuart hilly or flat?
Mount Stuart is hilly: the median ground slope is about 16%, and 54% of measured points sit on grades of 15% or steeper. Ground level runs from roughly 22 m to 583 m AHD across the suburb.
What is the typical lot size in Mount Stuart?
Across 31 surveyed parcels in Mount Stuart, the median lot size is about 16,973 m². There are also 36 registered easements mapped in the suburb.
What is the population of Mount Stuart?
At the 2021 Census Mount Stuart had 95 usual residents, with a median age of 23. The wider Douglas statistical area, which contains Mount Stuart, went from 3,282 people in 2001 to 8,318 in 2025, up 153%.
Is Mount Stuart an advantaged suburb?
On the ABS SEIFA 2021 index of relative socio-economic advantage and disadvantage (IRSAD), Mount Stuart scores 1122 and sits in decile 10 of 10 nationally and decile 10 within Queensland (decile 1 is the most disadvantaged tenth, decile 10 the least).
Compare nearby suburbs
| Nearby suburb | Distance | Flood mapped | Bushfire-prone |
|---|---|---|---|
| Murray | 5.0 km | <1% | 81% |
| Roseneath | 5.2 km | 0% | 94% |
| Oak Valley | 5.4 km | 0% | 84% |
| Rasmussen | 6.4 km | 8% | 16% |
| Kelso | 6.6 km | 2% | 40% |
| Douglas | 6.7 km | 20% | 65% |
| Wulguru | 6.8 km | 18% | 32% |
| Annandale | 7.5 km | 72% | 15% |
| Condon | 8.3 km | 5% | 27% |
| Cranbrook | 8.4 km | 11% | 8% |