Hopetoun Park flood map & planning overlays
Hopetoun Park is 2nd in Moorabool for both flood mapping and income.
Free map preview, then PDF reports from $9 - about the price of an iced latte on a public holiday.
A planning-constraint profile of Hopetoun Park
(Moorabool, VIC) - 7.44 km², mapped from live council and
state overlay data. This suburb is highly constrained.
Profile updated 24 October 2026.
Constraint readout
7.44 km² - this suburb is highly constrained by planning overlays.
Elevation hillshade with street names, clipped to Hopetoun 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 Hopetoun 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: observed, lowest 2,500 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.
Hopetoun Park at a glance
How Hopetoun Park is zoned
Selling in Hopetoun Park? The zoning and planning overlays on this page are the controls a Section 32 vendor statement discloses.
Across its 7.44 km², Hopetoun Park is highly constrained by planning overlays. About 18% of the suburb sits within a mapped flood overlay, and 100% is flagged bushfire-prone. There are 2 heritage-listed sites on record, and the dominant land-use zone is Farming Zone (FZ). The median lot measures about 7,499 m² across 358 parcels.
Who lives in Hopetoun Park
Census 2021 figures published by the ABS for the Hopetoun 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 1028, and decile 8 within Victoria. The national average is 1000.
Age profile
Share of Hopetoun Park's 914 residents in each ABS age band.
Population trend, 2001 to 2025
Estimated resident population of Bacchus Marsh, the wider ABS statistical area containing Hopetoun Park. There is no annual population series published at suburb level, so this describes the surrounding area rather than Hopetoun Park itself.
14,540 in 2001 to 27,182 in 2025, up 87%.
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.
Hopetoun 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 Hopetoun 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 92% of Hopetoun 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 Hopetoun Park lot.
Hopetoun Park planning - frequently asked
Is Hopetoun Park flood-prone?
About 18% of Hopetoun Park falls within a mapped flood overlay, against the council-wide suburb average of 7%.
Is Hopetoun Park bushfire-prone?
Around 100% of Hopetoun Park is mapped as bushfire-prone, compared with a Moorabool average of 98%.
Is Hopetoun Park under a flight path?
Aircraft were observed below 3,000 ft over about 92% of Hopetoun Park, and over about 100% 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 3,500 ft. At the busiest point in the suburb about 2 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 Hopetoun Park?
The dominant planning zone in Hopetoun Park is Farming Zone (FZ), though the suburb also includes Low Density Residential Zone (LDRZ) and Public Use Zone (PUZ1).
Does Hopetoun Park have heritage-listed places?
Hopetoun Park has 2 heritage-listed places on record.
What is the typical lot size in Hopetoun Park?
Across 358 surveyed parcels in Hopetoun Park, the median lot size is about 7,499 m². There are also 243 registered easements mapped in the suburb.
What is the population of Hopetoun Park?
At the 2021 Census Hopetoun Park had 914 usual residents, with a median age of 38 and an average household size of 3.5 people. The wider Bacchus Marsh statistical area, which contains Hopetoun Park, went from 14,540 people in 2001 to 27,182 in 2025, up 87%.
Is Hopetoun Park an advantaged suburb?
On the ABS SEIFA 2021 index of relative socio-economic advantage and disadvantage (IRSAD), Hopetoun Park scores 1028 and sits in decile 8 of 10 nationally and decile 8 within Victoria (decile 1 is the most disadvantaged tenth, decile 10 the least).
What is the median household income in Hopetoun Park?
Median household income in Hopetoun Park was $2,562 a week at the 2021 Census, against $1,798 for the typical suburb in Moorabool. Median rent was $375 a week and the median mortgage repayment $2,167 a month.
Compare nearby suburbs
| Nearby suburb | Distance | Flood mapped | Bushfire-prone |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brookfield Melton |
3.6 km | 10% | 56% |
| Melton West Melton |
3.9 km | 3% | 53% |
| Long Forest | 4.1 km | 5% | 100% |
| Merrimu | 4.7 km | 5% | 100% |
| Exford Melton |
5.3 km | 11% | 95% |
| Bacchus Marsh | 5.6 km | 32% | 39% |
| Parwan | 5.8 km | 3% | 100% |
| Harkness Melton |
5.9 km | <1% | 77% |
| Melton South Melton |
6.3 km | 3% | 7% |
| Maddingley | 6.5 km | 13% | 86% |