Box Hill flood map & planning overlays
Box Hill is Whitehorse's youngest (33) yet holds 69 heritage places and 85 bus stops.
Free map preview, then PDF reports from $9 - about the price of an iced latte on a public holiday.
A planning-constraint profile of Box Hill
(Whitehorse, VIC) - 3.52 km², mapped from live council and
state overlay data. This suburb is relatively unconstrained.
Profile updated 24 October 2026.
Constraint readout
3.52 km² - this suburb is relatively unconstrained by planning overlays.
Elevation hillshade with street names, clipped to Box 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
Aircraft noise and flight paths over Box 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 24 Oct 2026
typical observed square 1 a day
Night movements: observed, lowest 1,000 ft - night is sampled as often as day, but night traffic is light, so this is a floor and no rate can be put on it.
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.
Box Hill at a glance
How Box Hill is zoned
Selling in Box Hill? The zoning and planning overlays on this page are the controls a Section 32 vendor statement discloses.
Across its 3.52 km², Box Hill is relatively unconstrained by planning overlays. About 2% of the suburb sits within a mapped flood overlay. There are 69 heritage-listed sites on record, and the dominant land-use zone is PRZ4. The median lot measures about 1,186 m² across 12,091 parcels.
Who lives in Box Hill
Census 2021 figures published by the ABS for the Box 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 1019, and decile 7 within Victoria. The national average is 1000.
Age profile
Share of Box Hill's 14,353 residents in each ABS age band.
Population trend, 2001 to 2025
Estimated resident population of Box Hill, the wider ABS statistical area containing Box Hill. There is no annual population series published at suburb level, so this describes the surrounding area rather than Box Hill itself.
15,447 in 2001 to 27,206 in 2025, up 76%.
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.
Box 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 | Vicmap Planning and Victorian Government spatial services |
| Bushfire-prone mapping | Mapped | Vicmap Planning and Victorian Government spatial services |
| Zoning | Mapped | Vicmap Planning and Victorian Government spatial services |
| Heritage and environment | Mapped where published | Vicmap Planning and Victorian Government spatial services |
| Aircraft noise contours (ANEF) | Not held | Vicmap Planning and Victorian Government spatial services, Defence |
| Observed flight paths | Observed | adsb.lol, under the Open Database License |
| Demographics | Available | Australian Bureau of Statistics (2021 Census and SEIFA) |
Profile last materially updated 24 October 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 Box 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 →Aircraft have been seen below 3,000 ft over about 100% of Box Hill. The report's Aircraft Overflight page narrows that to the address itself: how many aircraft a day, how low, and at what heights.
Building or pricing a slab? The $119 geotechnical desktop report covers geology, soils, bores and the indicative soil reactivity range to expect for a Box Hill lot.
Box Hill planning - frequently asked
Is Box Hill flood-prone?
About 2% of Box Hill falls within a mapped flood overlay, against the council-wide suburb average of 4%.
Is Box Hill bushfire-prone?
Bushfire mapping covers Box Hill and little to none of it is mapped as bushfire-prone (the Whitehorse average is 3%).
Is Box Hill under a flight path?
Aircraft were observed below 3,000 ft over about 100% of Box Hill, in the period sampled (4 Sep 2026 to 24 Oct 2026). The lowest measured aircraft was at 500 ft, with an average of 3,000 ft. At the busiest point in the suburb about 6 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.
What is the zoning in Box Hill?
The dominant planning zone in Box Hill is PRZ4, though the suburb also includes General Residential Zone (GRZ1) and Public Park and Recreation Zone (PPRZ).
Does Box Hill have heritage-listed places?
Box Hill has 69 heritage-listed places on record.
What is the typical lot size in Box Hill?
Across 12,091 surveyed parcels in Box Hill, the median lot size is about 1,186 m². There are also 1,065 registered easements mapped in the suburb.
Does Box Hill have a train station?
Yes - Box Hill has 1 train station: Box Hill Station. It is also served by 85 bus stops and 5 tram stops.
What is the population of Box Hill?
At the 2021 Census Box Hill had 14,353 usual residents, with a median age of 33 and an average household size of 2.2 people. The wider Box Hill statistical area, which contains Box Hill, went from 15,447 people in 2001 to 27,206 in 2025, up 76%.
Is Box Hill an advantaged suburb?
On the ABS SEIFA 2021 index of relative socio-economic advantage and disadvantage (IRSAD), Box Hill scores 1019 and sits in decile 7 of 10 nationally and decile 7 within Victoria (decile 1 is the most disadvantaged tenth, decile 10 the least).
What is the median household income in Box Hill?
Median household income in Box Hill was $1,267 a week at the 2021 Census, against $1,941 for the typical suburb in Whitehorse. Median rent was $381 a week and the median mortgage repayment $1,950 a month.
Compare nearby suburbs
| Nearby suburb | Distance | Flood mapped | Bushfire-prone |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mont Albert | 1.6 km | <1% | 0% |
| Box Hill South | 1.7 km | 8% | <1% |
| Box Hill North | 1.7 km | 3% | 0% |
| Blackburn | 2.2 km | 7% | 7% |
| Surrey Hills | 2.3 km | 2% | 0% |
| Mont Albert North | 2.5 km | 10% | 0% |
| Blackburn South | 2.7 km | 3% | 0% |
| Blackburn North | 3.2 km | Not mapped | 0% |
| Burwood | 3.2 km | 3% | 2% |
| Balwyn Boroondara |
3.6 km | 4% | 0% |