Mount Clear flood map & planning overlays
Mount Clear: 3,671 residents, 8 heritage places, 97.8% bushfire.
Free map preview, then PDF reports from $9 - about the price of an iced latte on a public holiday.
A planning-constraint profile of Mount Clear
(Ballarat, VIC) - 9.91 km², mapped from live council and
state overlay data. This suburb is highly constrained.
Profile updated 24 October 2026.
Constraint readout
9.91 km² - this suburb is highly constrained by planning overlays.
Elevation hillshade with street names, clipped to Mount Clear'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 Mount Clear
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 0 a day
Night movements: observed, lowest 7,500 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.
Mount Clear at a glance
How Mount Clear is zoned
Selling in Mount Clear? The zoning and planning overlays on this page are the controls a Section 32 vendor statement discloses.
Across its 9.91 km², Mount Clear is highly constrained by planning overlays. About 2% of the suburb sits within a mapped flood overlay, and 98% is flagged bushfire-prone. There are 8 heritage-listed sites on record, and the dominant land-use zone is Public Conservation and Resource Zone (PCRZ). The median lot measures about 695 m² across 1,892 parcels.
Who lives in Mount Clear
Census 2021 figures published by the ABS for the Mount Clear 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 975, and decile 4 within Victoria. The national average is 1000.
Age profile
Share of Mount Clear's 3,671 residents in each ABS age band.
Population trend, 2001 to 2025
Estimated resident population of Canadian - Mount Clear, the wider ABS statistical area containing Mount Clear. There is no annual population series published at suburb level, so this describes the surrounding area rather than Mount Clear itself.
9,129 in 2001 to 12,518 in 2025, up 37%.
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.
Mount Clear 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 Mount Clear 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 35% of Mount Clear. 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 Mount Clear lot.
Mount Clear planning - frequently asked
Is Mount Clear flood-prone?
About 2% of Mount Clear falls within a mapped flood overlay, against the council-wide suburb average of 8%.
Is Mount Clear bushfire-prone?
Around 98% of Mount Clear is mapped as bushfire-prone, compared with a Ballarat average of 68%.
Is Mount Clear under a flight path?
Aircraft were observed below 3,000 ft over about 35% of Mount Clear, and over about 87% 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 2,000 ft, with an average of 4,500 ft. At the busiest point in the suburb about 1 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 Mount Clear?
The dominant planning zone in Mount Clear is Public Conservation and Resource Zone (PCRZ), though the suburb also includes General Residential Zone (GRZ1) and Farming Zone (FZ).
Does Mount Clear have heritage-listed places?
Mount Clear has 8 heritage-listed places on record.
What is the typical lot size in Mount Clear?
Across 1,892 surveyed parcels in Mount Clear, the median lot size is about 695 m². There are also 635 registered easements mapped in the suburb.
Does Mount Clear have a train station?
There is no train station inside Mount Clear itself. The suburb is served by 13 bus stops.
What is the population of Mount Clear?
At the 2021 Census Mount Clear had 3,671 usual residents, with a median age of 37 and an average household size of 2.5 people. The wider Canadian - Mount Clear statistical area, which contains Mount Clear, went from 9,129 people in 2001 to 12,518 in 2025, up 37%.
Is Mount Clear an advantaged suburb?
On the ABS SEIFA 2021 index of relative socio-economic advantage and disadvantage (IRSAD), Mount Clear scores 975 and sits in decile 5 of 10 nationally and decile 4 within Victoria (decile 1 is the most disadvantaged tenth, decile 10 the least).
What is the median household income in Mount Clear?
Median household income in Mount Clear was $1,462 a week at the 2021 Census, against $1,680 for the typical suburb in Ballarat. Median rent was $310 a week and the median mortgage repayment $1,498 a month.
Compare nearby suburbs
| Nearby suburb | Distance | Flood mapped | Bushfire-prone |
|---|---|---|---|
| Canadian | 2.3 km | 7% | 86% |
| Mount Pleasant | 2.9 km | 10% | 50% |
| Mount Helen | 2.9 km | <1% | 100% |
| Sebastopol | 3.2 km | 3% | 45% |
| Golden Point (Ballarat) | 3.3 km | 12% | 11% |
| Magpie | 4.0 km | Not mapped | 100% |
| Redan | 4.3 km | 18% | 11% |
| Eureka | 4.4 km | 7% | 0% |
| Bakery Hill | 4.5 km | 26% | 0% |
| Ballarat East | 4.9 km | 10% | 48% |