O'Briens Hill flood map & planning overlays
95.7% flood-mapped, on median lots of 3,464 m². A hill in name only, as far as the overlay goes.
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 O'Briens Hill
(Cassowary Coast Regional, QLD) - 1.98 km², mapped from live council and
state overlay data. This suburb is highly constrained.
Profile updated 5 November 2026.
Constraint readout
1.98 km² - this suburb is highly constrained by planning overlays.
Elevation hillshade with street names, clipped to O'Briens Hill's boundary, with the flood, bushfire and environmental overlays drawn on top.
Nearby suburbs, nearest first
Aircraft noise and flight paths over O'Briens 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
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.
O'Briens Hill at a glance
Schools in and near O'Briens 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 schools providing primary years and 0 providing secondary years. A combined school may be counted in both teaching levels.
Nearest school availability
Primary: 2.20 km from the suburb boundary
Secondary: 4.05 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 O'Briens Hill address in? Check an address with our free school zone checker.
How O'Briens Hill is zoned
Selling in O'Briens 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 1.98 km², O'Briens Hill is highly constrained by planning overlays. About 96% of the suburb sits within a mapped flood overlay. The dominant land-use zone is Rural. The median lot measures about 3,464 m² across 57 parcels.
Who lives in O'Briens Hill
Census 2021 figures published by the ABS for the O'Briens Hill 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 976, and decile 6 within Queensland. The national average is 1000.
Population trend, 2001 to 2025
Estimated resident population of Innisfail, the wider ABS statistical area containing O'Briens Hill. There is no annual population series published at suburb level, so this describes the surrounding area rather than O'Briens Hill itself.
9,719 in 2001 to 9,516 in 2025, down 2%.
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.
O'Briens Hill 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 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 O'Briens 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.
See what's in the $9 report →Published flood models are held over parts of O'Briens Hill. The free check tells you whether one reaches an address; where it does, a Flood Model Report is +$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 O'Briens Hill lot.
O'Briens Hill planning - frequently asked
Is O'Briens Hill flood-prone?
About 96% of O'Briens Hill falls within a mapped flood overlay, against the council-wide suburb average of 66%. Published flood models are held over parts of O'Briens Hill; the free check on the Flood Model Report page says whether one reaches a given address.
Is O'Briens Hill bushfire-prone?
Bushfire mapping covers O'Briens Hill and little to none of it is mapped as bushfire-prone (the Cassowary Coast Regional average is 16%).
Is O'Briens Hill under a flight path?
No aircraft were observed over O'Briens 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 O'Briens Hill?
The dominant planning zone in O'Briens Hill is Rural, though the suburb also includes Environmental management and conservation and Rural residential.
Does O'Briens Hill have heritage-listed places?
No heritage-listed places are on record within O'Briens Hill.
What is the typical lot size in O'Briens Hill?
Across 57 surveyed parcels in O'Briens Hill, the median lot size is about 3,464 m². There are also 18 registered easements mapped in the suburb.
Is O'Briens Hill an advantaged suburb?
On the ABS SEIFA 2021 index of relative socio-economic advantage and disadvantage (IRSAD), O'Briens Hill scores 976 and sits in decile 5 of 10 nationally and decile 6 within Queensland (decile 1 is the most disadvantaged tenth, decile 10 the least).
Compare nearby suburbs
| Nearby suburb | Distance | Flood mapped | Bushfire-prone |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belvedere | 0.9 km | 70% | <1% |
| Hudson | 1.6 km | 100% | 0% |
| Goondi Bend | 2.3 km | 100% | 0% |
| Goondi | 2.4 km | 98% | 0% |
| Stoters Hill | 2.4 km | 55% | 10% |
| Fitzgerald Creek | 2.7 km | 62% | <1% |
| Goondi Hill | 3.2 km | 100% | 11% |
| Upper Daradgee | 3.6 km | 63% | 3% |
| Cullinane | 3.7 km | 100% | 3% |
| Bamboo Creek | 4.0 km | 57% | 2% |