Pacific Heights flood map & planning overlays
1,111 residents call Pacific Heights home, 5th in Livingstone Shire.
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A planning-constraint profile of Pacific Heights
(Livingstone Shire, QLD) - 2.55 km², mapped from live council and
state overlay data. This suburb is highly constrained.
Profile updated 7 November 2026.
Constraint readout
2.55 km² - this suburb is highly constrained by planning overlays.
Elevation hillshade with street names, clipped to Pacific Heights'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
Aircraft noise and flight paths over Pacific Heights
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.
Pacific Heights at a glance
Schools in and near Pacific Heights
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
1 school providing primary years and 0 providing secondary years. A combined school may be counted in both teaching levels.
Nearest school availability
Primary: inside the suburb
Secondary: 1.32 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 Pacific Heights address in? Check an address with our free school zone checker.
How Pacific Heights is zoned
Selling in Pacific Heights? 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 2.55 km², Pacific Heights is highly constrained by planning overlays. Flood mapping covers the suburb and none of it falls within a mapped flood overlay, and 65% is flagged bushfire-prone. The dominant land-use zone is Rural. The median lot measures about 742 m² across 626 parcels.
Who lives in Pacific Heights
Census 2021 figures published by the ABS for the Pacific Heights 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 1029, and decile 9 within Queensland. The national average is 1000.
Age profile
Share of Pacific Heights's 1,111 residents in each ABS age band.
Population trend, 2001 to 2025
Estimated resident population of Yeppoon, the wider ABS statistical area containing Pacific Heights. There is no annual population series published at suburb level, so this describes the surrounding area rather than Pacific Heights itself.
12,256 in 2001 to 22,522 in 2025, up 84%.
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.
Pacific Heights 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 Pacific Heights 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 →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 Pacific Heights. 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 Pacific Heights lot.
Pacific Heights planning - frequently asked
Is Pacific Heights flood-prone?
Flood mapping covers Pacific Heights and none of the suburb falls within a mapped flood overlay (the council-wide suburb average is 39%). Published flood models are held over parts of Pacific Heights; the free check on the Flood Model Report page says whether one reaches a given address.
Is Pacific Heights bushfire-prone?
Around 65% of Pacific Heights is mapped as bushfire-prone, compared with a Livingstone Shire average of 53%.
Is Pacific Heights under a flight path?
Aircraft were observed over about 4% of Pacific Heights in the period sampled, but only above 3,000 ft - the lowest measured was 3,500 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 Pacific Heights?
The dominant planning zone in Pacific Heights is Rural, though the suburb also includes Low density residential and Emerging communities.
Does Pacific Heights have heritage-listed places?
No heritage-listed places are on record within Pacific Heights.
What is the typical lot size in Pacific Heights?
Across 626 surveyed parcels in Pacific Heights, the median lot size is about 742 m². There are also 255 registered easements mapped in the suburb.
Does Pacific Heights have a train station?
There is no train station inside Pacific Heights itself. The suburb is served by 1 bus stop.
What is the population of Pacific Heights?
At the 2021 Census Pacific Heights had 1,111 usual residents, with a median age of 45 and an average household size of 2.7 people. The wider Yeppoon statistical area, which contains Pacific Heights, went from 12,256 people in 2001 to 22,522 in 2025, up 84%.
Is Pacific Heights an advantaged suburb?
On the ABS SEIFA 2021 index of relative socio-economic advantage and disadvantage (IRSAD), Pacific Heights scores 1029 and sits in decile 8 of 10 nationally and decile 9 within Queensland (decile 1 is the most disadvantaged tenth, decile 10 the least).
What is the median household income in Pacific Heights?
Median household income in Pacific Heights was $1,960 a week at the 2021 Census, against $1,791 for the typical suburb in Livingstone Shire. Median rent was $445 a week and the median mortgage repayment $1,839 a month.
Compare nearby suburbs
| Nearby suburb | Distance | Flood mapped | Bushfire-prone |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barlows Hill | 1.3 km | 0% | 67% |
| Meikleville Hill | 2.2 km | 0% | 62% |
| Inverness | 2.5 km | 27% | 86% |
| Adelaide Park | 3.8 km | 36% | 83% |
| Yeppoon | 4.7 km | 19% | 16% |
| Bangalee | 5.5 km | 21% | 0% |
| Barmaryee | 5.7 km | 50% | 72% |
| Taranganba | 6.0 km | 16% | 50% |
| Cooee Bay | 7.2 km | 19% | 1% |
| Hidden Valley | 8.0 km | 8% | 78% |