Willowbank flood map & planning overlays

About 54% of Willowbank falls within a mapped flood overlay, against the council-wide suburb average of 46%. Across the suburb, 12% of the 419 properties we analysed carry some level of mapped flood risk, including 34 rated high risk or historically affected. Published flood models are held over parts of Willowbank; the free check on the Flood Model Report page says whether one reaches a given address.

Yes. Recorded flood mapping reaches into Willowbank: 25 of the 419 properties we analysed (6.0%) sit at least partly inside a mapped historical flood extent (Historic Flood 2011: 25). The free address check says whether a given lot is inside one.

Around 44% of Willowbank is mapped as bushfire-prone, compared with a Ipswich City average of 50%.

About 62% of Willowbank sits inside a published aircraft noise contour, and the highest contour present is ANEF 25 - under AS 2021, land above ANEF 25 is generally considered unacceptable for new houses, and 20-25 conditionally acceptable with noise attenuation. ANEF contours are forecasts published per airport and used to control noise-sensitive development; they are not a measurement at any one house, and a property can sit under a flight path and outside every contour.

Aircraft were observed below 3,000 ft over about 88% of Willowbank, and over about 98% 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 2,500 ft. At the busiest point in the suburb about 4 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.

The dominant planning zone in Willowbank is Rural, though the suburb also includes Industry investigation and Environmental management.

No heritage-listed places are on record within Willowbank.

Willowbank is gently undulating: the median ground slope is about 5%, and 1% of measured points sit on grades of 15% or steeper. Ground level runs from roughly 28 m to 74 m AHD across the suburb.

Across 425 surveyed parcels in Willowbank, the median lot size is about 3,999 m². There are also 33 registered easements mapped in the suburb.

There is no train station inside Willowbank itself. The suburb is served by 7 bus stops.

At the 2021 Census Willowbank had 1,351 usual residents, with a median age of 41 and an average household size of 2.6 people. The wider Rosewood statistical area, which contains Willowbank, went from 10,905 people in 2001 to 16,825 in 2025, up 54%.

On the ABS SEIFA 2021 index of relative socio-economic advantage and disadvantage (IRSAD), Willowbank scores 935 and sits in decile 3 of 10 nationally and decile 4 within Queensland (decile 1 is the most disadvantaged tenth, decile 10 the least).

Median household income in Willowbank was $1,411 a week at the 2021 Census, against $1,643 for the typical suburb in Ipswich City. Median rent was $245 a week and the median mortgage repayment $1,625 a month.