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Mockinya flood map & planning overlays

Mockinya is Horsham's most environmentally overlaid suburb, 99.8%.

A planning-constraint profile of Mockinya (Horsham, VIC) - 85.01 km², mapped from live council and state overlay data. This suburb is highly constrained.
Profile updated 24 October 2026.

Elevation hillshade with street names, clipped to Mockinya'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 Mockinya

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

Under observed aircraft
2%
of the suburb, at or below 10,000 ft
Below 3,000 ft
0%
of the suburb's area
Lowest measured
7,500 ft
averaging 8,000 ft
How often
not established
aircraft were seen, but not often enough to put a rate on

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.

Mockinya at a glance

Parcels 155 Median lot 378,683 m² Mapped easements 18

How Mockinya is zoned

Farming Zone (FZ) 95%
Public Conservation and Resource Zone (PCRZ) 4%
Transport Zone (TRZ2) 1%

Selling in Mockinya? The zoning and planning overlays on this page are the controls a Section 32 vendor statement discloses.

Across its 85.01 km², Mockinya is highly constrained by planning overlays. About 7% of the suburb sits within a mapped flood overlay, and 100% is flagged bushfire-prone. The dominant land-use zone is Farming Zone (FZ). The median lot measures about 378,683 m² across 155 parcels.

Who lives in Mockinya

Census 2021 figures published by the ABS for the Mockinya suburb boundary itself, not a wider region.

Population
30
usual residents, 2021

Socio-economic standing

ABS SEIFA 2021 ranks every Australian suburb. Decile 1 is the most disadvantaged tenth of the country, decile 10 the least.

Advantage and disadvantage (IRSAD) Decile 8
most disadvantagedleast disadvantaged

Score 1032, and decile 8 within Victoria. The national average is 1000.

Relative disadvantage (IRSD) Decile 8
most disadvantagedleast disadvantaged

Population trend, 2001 to 2025

Estimated resident population of Horsham Surrounds, the wider ABS statistical area containing Mockinya. There is no annual population series published at suburb level, so this describes the surrounding area rather than Mockinya itself.

3,565 in 2001 to 3,399 in 2025, down 5%.

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.

Mockinya data sources and coverage

“Not mapped” means we hold no source layer for this suburb - never an all-clear.

DatasetCoveragePublisher
Flood mappingMappedVicmap Planning and Victorian Government spatial services
Bushfire-prone mappingMappedVicmap Planning and Victorian Government spatial services
ZoningMappedVicmap Planning and Victorian Government spatial services
Heritage and environmentMapped where publishedVicmap Planning and Victorian Government spatial services
Aircraft noise contours (ANEF)Not heldVicmap Planning and Victorian Government spatial services, Defence
Observed flight pathsObservedadsb.lol, under the Open Database License
DemographicsAvailableAustralian 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 Mockinya 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 Mockinya lot.

Mockinya planning - frequently asked

Is Mockinya flood-prone?

About 7% of Mockinya falls within a mapped flood overlay, against the council-wide suburb average of 16%.

Is Mockinya bushfire-prone?

Around 100% of Mockinya is mapped as bushfire-prone, compared with a Horsham average of 98%.

Is Mockinya under a flight path?

Aircraft were observed over about 2% of Mockinya in the period sampled, but only above 3,000 ft - the lowest measured was 7,500 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 Mockinya?

The dominant planning zone in Mockinya is Farming Zone (FZ), though the suburb also includes Public Conservation and Resource Zone (PCRZ) and Transport Zone (TRZ2).

Does Mockinya have heritage-listed places?

No heritage-listed places are on record within Mockinya.

What is the typical lot size in Mockinya?

Across 155 surveyed parcels in Mockinya, the median lot size is about 378,683 m². There are also 18 registered easements mapped in the suburb.

Is Mockinya an advantaged suburb?

On the ABS SEIFA 2021 index of relative socio-economic advantage and disadvantage (IRSAD), Mockinya scores 1032 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 suburbDistanceFlood mappedBushfire-prone
Wonwondah 8.2 km 16% 100%
Nurrabiel 11.3 km 6% 100%
Brimpaen 11.6 km 2% 100%
Laharum 15.2 km 10% 100%
Mckenzie Creek 17.5 km 14% 100%
Cherrypool
Southern Grampians
19.0 km 0% 100%
Bungalally 19.5 km 9% 100%
Lower Norton 19.7 km 16% 100%
Wartook
Northern Grampians
20.5 km 6% 100%
Haven 22.6 km 11% 100%

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