Dry Diggings flood map & planning overlays
Dry Diggings has 6 heritage places on its 16,227 m² conservation lots.
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A planning-constraint profile of Dry Diggings
(Hepburn, VIC) - 8.14 km², mapped from live council and
state overlay data. This suburb is highly constrained.
Profile updated 24 October 2026.
Constraint readout
8.14 km² - this suburb is highly constrained by planning overlays.
Elevation hillshade with street names, clipped to Dry Diggings'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 Dry Diggings
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
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.
Dry Diggings at a glance
How Dry Diggings is zoned
Selling in Dry Diggings? The zoning and planning overlays on this page are the controls a Section 32 vendor statement discloses.
Across its 8.14 km², Dry Diggings is highly constrained by planning overlays. Flood mapping covers the suburb and none of it falls within a mapped flood overlay, and 100% is flagged bushfire-prone. There are 6 heritage-listed sites on record, and the dominant land-use zone is Public Conservation and Resource Zone (PCRZ). The median lot measures about 16,227 m² across 85 parcels.
Who lives in Dry Diggings
Census 2021 figures published by the ABS for the Dry Diggings 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 1035, and decile 8 within Victoria. The national average is 1000.
Population trend, 2001 to 2025
Estimated resident population of Daylesford, the wider ABS statistical area containing Dry Diggings. There is no annual population series published at suburb level, so this describes the surrounding area rather than Dry Diggings itself.
8,201 in 2001 to 10,342 in 2025, up 26%.
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.
Dry Diggings 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 Dry Diggings 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 →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 Dry Diggings lot.
Dry Diggings planning - frequently asked
Is Dry Diggings flood-prone?
Flood mapping covers Dry Diggings and less than 1% of the suburb falls within a mapped flood overlay (the council-wide suburb average is 7%).
Is Dry Diggings bushfire-prone?
Around 100% of Dry Diggings is mapped as bushfire-prone, compared with a Hepburn average of 100%.
Is Dry Diggings under a flight path?
Aircraft were observed over about 23% of Dry Diggings in the period sampled, but only above 3,000 ft - the lowest measured was 3,500 ft. 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 Dry Diggings?
The dominant planning zone in Dry Diggings is Public Conservation and Resource Zone (PCRZ), though the suburb also includes Farming Zone (FZ2) and Rural Living Zone (RLZ1).
Does Dry Diggings have heritage-listed places?
Dry Diggings has 6 heritage-listed places on record.
What is the typical lot size in Dry Diggings?
Across 85 surveyed parcels in Dry Diggings, the median lot size is about 16,227 m². There are also 14 registered easements mapped in the suburb.
Is Dry Diggings an advantaged suburb?
On the ABS SEIFA 2021 index of relative socio-economic advantage and disadvantage (IRSAD), Dry Diggings scores 1035 and sits in decile 8 of 10 nationally and decile 8 within Victoria (decile 1 is the most disadvantaged tenth, decile 10 the least).
Compare nearby suburbs
| Nearby suburb | Distance | Flood mapped | Bushfire-prone |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hepburn Springs | 2.3 km | 5% | 100% |
| Elevated Plains | 2.3 km | 4% | 100% |
| Hepburn | 3.1 km | 7% | 100% |
| Porcupine Ridge | 4.1 km | 3% | 100% |
| Mount Franklin | 4.2 km | Not mapped | 100% |
| Coomoora | 4.8 km | 4% | 100% |
| Basalt | 4.8 km | 4% | 100% |
| Daylesford | 5.6 km | 8% | 100% |
| Shepherds Flat | 5.6 km | 9% | 100% |
| Sailors Hill | 7.4 km | 11% | 100% |