Miners Rest flood map & planning overlays

The schematic on this page is a Miners Rest flood map: the mapped flood overlays drawn over the suburb's terrain and street grid, covering about 26% of the suburb. Flood lines vary block to block, so for a specific property use the free interactive map - search any Miners Rest address and it shows the flood, zoning and bushfire mapping on the exact lot boundary.

About 26% of Miners Rest falls within a mapped flood overlay, against the council-wide suburb average of 6%. Flood overlays vary block to block, so whether a particular lot is affected needs a property-level check.

Around 100% of Miners Rest is mapped as bushfire-prone, compared with a Ballarat average of 100%. A bushfire-prone designation can trigger additional building requirements, so check the specific address.

About <1% of Miners Rest sits inside a published aircraft noise contour. ANEF contours are forecasts published per airport and used to control noise-sensitive development; they are not a measurement at any one house, and a property can sit under a flight path and outside every contour.

The dominant planning zone in Miners Rest is Farming Zone (FZ), though the suburb also includes Urban Growth Zone (UGZ) and Special Use Zone (SUZ13). Zoning sets what you can build and do on a site, and can differ lot by lot.

Miners Rest has 4 heritage-listed places on record. Heritage listing affects what you can alter or demolish, so confirm whether a specific property is listed or near a heritage place.

Across 2,047 surveyed parcels in Miners Rest, the median lot size is about 740 m². There are also 459 registered easements mapped in the suburb - an easement can restrict where you can build, so always check the title and overlays for the specific lot.

There is no train station inside Miners Rest itself. The suburb is served by 17 bus stops.

At the 2021 Census Miners Rest had 3,829 usual residents, with a median age of 33 and an average household size of 2.8 people. The wider Wendouree - Miners Rest statistical area, which contains Miners Rest, went from 13,355 people in 2001 to 15,548 in 2025, up 16%. ABS publishes no annual population series for individual suburbs, so that trend describes the surrounding area rather than Miners Rest alone.

On the ABS SEIFA 2021 index of relative socio-economic advantage and disadvantage (IRSAD), Miners Rest scores 993 and sits in decile 6 of 10 nationally and decile 5 within Victoria - decile 1 being the most disadvantaged tenth of Australian suburbs and decile 10 the least. The national average score is 1000. SEIFA summarises income, education, occupation and housing across the whole suburb, so it describes the area, not any particular household in it.

Median household income in Miners Rest was $1,983 a week at the 2021 Census, against $1,680 for the typical suburb in Ballarat. Median rent was $360 a week and the median mortgage repayment $1,517 a month. These are 2021 Census figures and have not been indexed to today.

A Miners Rest planning report pulls every overlay - zoning, flood, bushfire, heritage, environmental and noise - that touches a single lot, on live council and state data. The interactive map preview is free; the full PDF report is $9.