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Victoria Hill flood map & planning overlays

Victoria Hill is 76.8% flood-mapped despite the hill in its name.

A planning-constraint profile of Victoria Hill (Toowoomba Regional, QLD) - 7.75 km², mapped from live council and state overlay data. This suburb is highly constrained.
Profile updated 7 November 2026.

Elevation hillshade with street names, clipped to Victoria Hill'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 Victoria Hill properties?

Counts of properties, not share of land, across 8 analysed Victoria Hill properties; no individual property result is identified.

Aircraft noise and flight paths over Victoria 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 4 Sep to 7 Nov 2026

Under observed aircraft
72%
of the suburb, at or below 10,000 ft
Below 3,000 ft
0%
of the suburb's area
Lowest measured
3,000 ft
averaging 6,000 ft
How often
not established
aircraft were seen, but not often enough to put a rate on

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.

Victoria Hill at a glance

Parcels 8 Median lot 586,721 m² Schools in suburb 0

Schools in and near Victoria 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

0 schools providing primary years and 0 providing secondary years. A combined school may be counted in both teaching levels.

Nearest school availability

Primary: 10.24 km from the suburb boundary

Secondary: 14.44 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 Victoria Hill address in? Check an address with our free school zone checker.

How Victoria Hill is zoned

Rural 100%

Selling in Victoria 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 7.75 km², Victoria Hill is highly constrained by planning overlays. About 77% of the suburb sits within a mapped flood overlay, and 14% is flagged bushfire-prone. The dominant land-use zone is Rural. The terrain is largely flat, and the median lot measures about 586,721 m² across 8 parcels.

Who lives in Victoria Hill

Census 2021 figures published by the ABS for the Victoria Hill suburb boundary itself, not a wider region.

Population
48
usual residents, 2021

Socio-economic standing

ABS SEIFA 2021 ranks every Australian suburb. Decile 1 is the most disadvantaged tenth of the country, decile 10 the least.

Advantage and disadvantage (IRSAD) Decile 3
most disadvantagedleast disadvantaged

Score 948, and decile 4 within Queensland. The national average is 1000.

Relative disadvantage (IRSD) Decile 4
most disadvantagedleast disadvantaged

Age profile

Share of Victoria Hill's 48 residents in each ABS age band.

0-4 10.0%
5-14 20.0%
15-19 0.0%
20-24 0.0%
25-34 6.0%
35-44 18.0%
45-54 22.0%
55-64 6.0%
65-74 18.0%
75-84 0.0%
85+ 0.0%

Population trend, 2001 to 2025

Estimated resident population of Southern Downs - West, the wider ABS statistical area containing Victoria Hill. There is no annual population series published at suburb level, so this describes the surrounding area rather than Victoria Hill itself.

3,823 in 2001 to 5,347 in 2025, up 40%.

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.

Victoria Hill data sources and coverage

“Not mapped” means we hold no source layer for this suburb - never an all-clear.

DatasetCoveragePublisher
Flood mappingMappedthe relevant council planning scheme and Queensland Government spatial data
Bushfire-prone mappingMappedthe relevant council planning scheme and Queensland Government spatial data
ZoningMappedthe relevant council planning scheme and Queensland Government spatial data
Heritage and environmentMapped where publishedthe relevant council planning scheme and Queensland Government spatial data
Aircraft noise contours (ANEF)Not heldthe relevant council planning scheme and Queensland Government spatial data, Defence
Observed flight pathsObservedadsb.lol, under the Open Database License
DemographicsAvailableAustralian Bureau of Statistics (2021 Census and SEIFA)
School availabilityAvailableQueensland 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.

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Check a specific Victoria 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.

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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 Victoria Hill. 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).

Building or pricing a slab? The $119 geotechnical desktop report covers geology, soils, bores and the indicative soil reactivity range to expect for a Victoria Hill lot.

Victoria Hill planning - frequently asked

Is Victoria Hill flood-prone?

About 77% of Victoria Hill falls within a mapped flood overlay, against the council-wide suburb average of 27%. Across the suburb, 88% of the 8 properties we analysed carry some level of mapped flood risk, including 6 rated high risk or historically affected. Published flood models are held over parts of Victoria Hill; the free check on the Flood Model Report page says whether one reaches a given address.

Is Victoria Hill bushfire-prone?

Around 14% of Victoria Hill is mapped as bushfire-prone, compared with a Toowoomba Regional average of 36%.

Is Victoria Hill under a flight path?

Aircraft were observed over about 72% of Victoria Hill in the period sampled, but only above 3,000 ft - the lowest measured was 3,000 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 Victoria Hill?

The dominant planning zone in Victoria Hill is Rural.

Does Victoria Hill have heritage-listed places?

No heritage-listed places are on record within Victoria Hill.

Is Victoria Hill hilly or flat?

Victoria Hill is largely flat: the median ground slope is about 1%. Ground level runs from roughly 413 m to 442 m AHD across the suburb.

What is the typical lot size in Victoria Hill?

Across 8 surveyed parcels in Victoria Hill, the median lot size is about 586,721 m².

Is Victoria Hill an advantaged suburb?

On the ABS SEIFA 2021 index of relative socio-economic advantage and disadvantage (IRSAD), Victoria Hill scores 948 and sits in decile 3 of 10 nationally and decile 4 within Queensland (decile 1 is the most disadvantaged tenth, decile 10 the least).

Compare nearby suburbs

Nearby suburbDistanceFlood mappedBushfire-prone
Sandy Camp 4.7 km 39% 29%
Ellangowan 8.2 km 72% 30%
Ryeford 8.7 km 62% 13%
Elphinstone 11.7 km 25% <1%
Back Plains 13.0 km 22% 20%
Mount Molar 13.6 km 20% 19%
Clifton 15.6 km 50% 0%
Felton South 15.9 km 56% 13%
Leyburn 17.4 km 45% 43%
Kings Creek 18.0 km 59% <1%

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