Bushy Park flood map & planning overlays
Bushy Park works 19 ha farms, 26.3% flood-mapped.
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A planning-constraint profile of Bushy Park
(Wellington, VIC) - 18.77 km², mapped from live council and
state overlay data. This suburb is highly constrained.
Profile updated 24 October 2026.
Constraint readout
18.77 km² - this suburb is highly constrained by planning overlays.
Elevation hillshade with street names, clipped to Bushy Park'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 Bushy Park
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: 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.
Bushy Park at a glance
How Bushy Park is zoned
Selling in Bushy Park? The zoning and planning overlays on this page are the controls a Section 32 vendor statement discloses.
Across its 18.77 km², Bushy Park is highly constrained by planning overlays. About 26% of the suburb sits within a mapped flood overlay, and 100% is flagged bushfire-prone. There is 1 heritage-listed site on record, and the dominant land-use zone is Farming Zone (FZ). The median lot measures about 187,233 m² across 69 parcels.
Who lives in Bushy Park
Census 2021 figures published by the ABS for the Bushy Park 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 974, and decile 4 within Victoria. The national average is 1000.
Age profile
Share of Bushy Park's 49 residents in each ABS age band.
Population trend, 2001 to 2025
Estimated resident population of Maffra, the wider ABS statistical area containing Bushy Park. There is no annual population series published at suburb level, so this describes the surrounding area rather than Bushy Park itself.
13,002 in 2001 to 15,549 in 2025, up 20%.
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.
Bushy Park 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 Bushy Park 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 11% of Bushy Park. 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 Bushy Park lot.
Bushy Park planning - frequently asked
Is Bushy Park flood-prone?
About 26% of Bushy Park falls within a mapped flood overlay, against the council-wide suburb average of 26%.
Is Bushy Park bushfire-prone?
Around 100% of Bushy Park is mapped as bushfire-prone, compared with a Wellington average of 96%.
Is Bushy Park under a flight path?
Aircraft were observed below 3,000 ft over about 11% of Bushy Park, and over about 63% 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 500 ft, with an average of 6,500 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 Bushy Park?
The dominant planning zone in Bushy Park is Farming Zone (FZ), though the suburb also includes Public Conservation and Resource Zone (PCRZ) and Transport Zone (TRZ2).
Does Bushy Park have heritage-listed places?
Bushy Park has 1 heritage-listed place on record.
What is the typical lot size in Bushy Park?
Across 69 surveyed parcels in Bushy Park, the median lot size is about 187,233 m². There are also 30 registered easements mapped in the suburb.
Is Bushy Park an advantaged suburb?
On the ABS SEIFA 2021 index of relative socio-economic advantage and disadvantage (IRSAD), Bushy Park scores 974 and sits in decile 5 of 10 nationally and decile 4 within Victoria (decile 1 is the most disadvantaged tenth, decile 10 the least).
Compare nearby suburbs
| Nearby suburb | Distance | Flood mapped | Bushfire-prone |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boisdale | 4.0 km | 18% | 100% |
| Llowalong | 5.8 km | 15% | 100% |
| Briagolong | 8.5 km | 1% | 100% |
| Valencia Creek | 9.6 km | 9% | 100% |
| Newry | 10.5 km | 23% | 100% |
| Maffra | 11.7 km | 43% | 96% |
| Stratford | 13.3 km | 16% | 99% |
| Koorool | 15.4 km | Not mapped | 100% |
| Maffra West Upper | 16.8 km | 4% | 100% |
| Stockdale | 16.8 km | Not mapped | 100% |