Carapooee West flood map & planning overlays
Carapooee West keeps 5 heritage places on 8 ha conservation lots, 7% flood.
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A planning-constraint profile of Carapooee West
(Northern Grampians, VIC) - 49.5 km², mapped from live council and
state overlay data. This suburb is highly constrained.
Profile updated 15 October 2026.
Constraint readout
49.5 km² - this suburb is highly constrained by planning overlays.
Elevation hillshade with street names, clipped to Carapooee West's boundary, with the flood, bushfire and environmental overlays drawn on top.
Nearby suburbs, nearest first
Aircraft noise and flight paths over Carapooee West
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 to
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.
Carapooee West at a glance
How Carapooee West is zoned
Selling in Carapooee West? The zoning and planning overlays on this page are the controls a Section 32 vendor statement discloses.
Across its 49.5 km², Carapooee West is highly constrained by planning overlays. About 7% of the suburb sits within a mapped flood overlay, and 100% is flagged bushfire-prone. There are 5 heritage-listed sites on record, and the dominant land-use zone is Public Conservation and Resource Zone (PCRZ). The median lot measures about 83,138 m² across 110 parcels.
Who lives in Carapooee West
Census 2021 figures published by the ABS for the Carapooee West 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 952, and decile 3 within Victoria. The national average is 1000.
Population trend, 2001 to 2025
Estimated resident population of St Arnaud, the wider ABS statistical area containing Carapooee West. There is no annual population series published at suburb level, so this describes the surrounding area rather than Carapooee West itself.
4,075 in 2001 to 3,394 in 2025, down 17%.
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.
Carapooee West 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 15 October 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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Carapooee West planning - frequently asked
Is Carapooee West flood-prone?
About 7% of Carapooee West falls within a mapped flood overlay, against the council-wide suburb average of 27%.
Is Carapooee West bushfire-prone?
Around 100% of Carapooee West is mapped as bushfire-prone, compared with a Northern Grampians average of 100%.
Is Carapooee West under a flight path?
No aircraft were observed over Carapooee West in the period sampled (recent weeks to now). Sampling is intermittent, so that is a floor rather than proof that none fly over. 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 Carapooee West?
The dominant planning zone in Carapooee West is Public Conservation and Resource Zone (PCRZ), though the suburb also includes Farming Zone (FZ) and Transport Zone (TRZ2).
Does Carapooee West have heritage-listed places?
Carapooee West has 5 heritage-listed places on record.
What is the typical lot size in Carapooee West?
Across 110 surveyed parcels in Carapooee West, the median lot size is about 83,138 m².
Is Carapooee West an advantaged suburb?
On the ABS SEIFA 2021 index of relative socio-economic advantage and disadvantage (IRSAD), Carapooee West scores 952 and sits in decile 4 of 10 nationally and decile 3 within Victoria (decile 1 is the most disadvantaged tenth, decile 10 the least).
Compare nearby suburbs
| Nearby suburb | Distance | Flood mapped | Bushfire-prone |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beazleys Bridge | 8.2 km | 16% | 100% |
| Rostron | 8.7 km | 21% | 100% |
| Carapooee | 8.9 km | 24% | 100% |
| Moolerr | 9.3 km | 13% | 100% |
| St Arnaud | 9.5 km | 11% | 99% |
| Stuart Mill | 10.3 km | 9% | 100% |
| St Arnaud East | 11.5 km | 4% | 100% |
| Gre Gre | 13.7 km | 20% | 100% |
| St Arnaud North | 14.5 km | 11% | 100% |
| Winjallok | 15.2 km | 12% | 100% |