Buninyong flood map & planning overlays
Buninyong's 3,797 residents share 23 heritage places, 94.1% bushfire-mapped.
Free map preview, then PDF reports from $9 - about the price of an iced latte on a public holiday.
A planning-constraint profile of Buninyong
(Ballarat, VIC) - 26.05 km², mapped from live council and
state overlay data. This suburb is highly constrained.
Profile updated 24 October 2026.
Constraint readout
26.05 km² - this suburb is highly constrained by planning overlays.
Elevation hillshade with street names, clipped to Buninyong'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 Buninyong
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 0 a day
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.
Buninyong at a glance
How Buninyong is zoned
Selling in Buninyong? The zoning and planning overlays on this page are the controls a Section 32 vendor statement discloses.
Across its 26.05 km², Buninyong is highly constrained by planning overlays. Flood mapping covers the suburb and none of it falls within a mapped flood overlay, and 94% is flagged bushfire-prone. There are 23 heritage-listed sites on record, and the dominant land-use zone is Rural Living Zone (RLZ). The median lot measures about 1,023 m² across 2,091 parcels.
Who lives in Buninyong
Census 2021 figures published by the ABS for the Buninyong 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 1045, and decile 9 within Victoria. The national average is 1000.
Age profile
Share of Buninyong's 3,797 residents in each ABS age band.
Population trend, 2001 to 2025
Estimated resident population of Buninyong, the wider ABS statistical area containing Buninyong. There is no annual population series published at suburb level, so this describes the surrounding area rather than Buninyong itself.
5,320 in 2001 to 7,384 in 2025, up 39%.
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.
Buninyong 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 Buninyong 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 22% of Buninyong. 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 Buninyong lot.
Buninyong planning - frequently asked
Is Buninyong flood-prone?
Flood mapping covers Buninyong and less than 1% of the suburb falls within a mapped flood overlay (the council-wide suburb average is 8%).
Is Buninyong bushfire-prone?
Around 94% of Buninyong is mapped as bushfire-prone, compared with a Ballarat average of 68%.
Is Buninyong under a flight path?
Aircraft were observed below 3,000 ft over about 22% of Buninyong, and over about 67% at any altitude up to 10,000 ft, in the period sampled (4 Sep 2026 to 24 Oct 2026). The lowest measured aircraft was at 1,500 ft, with an average of 4,000 ft. At the busiest point in the suburb about 1 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 Buninyong?
The dominant planning zone in Buninyong is Rural Living Zone (RLZ), though the suburb also includes Farming Zone (FZ) and Rural Conservation Zone (RCZ2).
Does Buninyong have heritage-listed places?
Buninyong has 23 heritage-listed places on record.
What is the typical lot size in Buninyong?
Across 2,091 surveyed parcels in Buninyong, the median lot size is about 1,023 m². There are also 593 registered easements mapped in the suburb.
Does Buninyong have a train station?
There is no train station inside Buninyong itself. The suburb is served by 19 bus stops.
What is the population of Buninyong?
At the 2021 Census Buninyong had 3,797 usual residents, with a median age of 45 and an average household size of 2.6 people. The wider Buninyong statistical area, which contains Buninyong, went from 5,320 people in 2001 to 7,384 in 2025, up 39%.
Is Buninyong an advantaged suburb?
On the ABS SEIFA 2021 index of relative socio-economic advantage and disadvantage (IRSAD), Buninyong scores 1045 and sits in decile 9 of 10 nationally and decile 9 within Victoria (decile 1 is the most disadvantaged tenth, decile 10 the least).
What is the median household income in Buninyong?
Median household income in Buninyong was $1,745 a week at the 2021 Census, against $1,680 for the typical suburb in Ballarat. Median rent was $305 a week and the median mortgage repayment $1,733 a month.
Compare nearby suburbs
| Nearby suburb | Distance | Flood mapped | Bushfire-prone |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Helen | 2.4 km | <1% | 100% |
| Scotchmans Lead | 4.5 km | 3% | 100% |
| Magpie | 4.6 km | Not mapped | 100% |
| Mount Clear | 5.2 km | 2% | 98% |
| Navigators Moorabool |
5.5 km | 13% | 100% |
| Scotsburn | 5.5 km | 4% | 100% |
| Durham Lead | 5.6 km | 5% | 100% |
| Cambrian Hill Golden Plains |
6.8 km | 4% | 100% |
| Sebastopol | 7.1 km | 3% | 45% |
| Canadian | 7.2 km | 7% | 86% |