Murphys Creek flood map & planning overlays
Murphys Creek holds 19 ha farms where flood mapping touches 10.6%.
Free map preview, then PDF reports from $9 - about the price of an iced latte on a public holiday.
A planning-constraint profile of Murphys Creek
(Loddon, VIC) - 76.71 km², mapped from live council and
state overlay data. This suburb is highly constrained.
Profile updated 24 October 2026.
Constraint readout
76.71 km² - this suburb is highly constrained by planning overlays.
Elevation hillshade with street names, clipped to Murphys Creek'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 Murphys Creek
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.
Murphys Creek at a glance
How Murphys Creek is zoned
Selling in Murphys Creek? The zoning and planning overlays on this page are the controls a Section 32 vendor statement discloses.
Across its 76.71 km², Murphys Creek is highly constrained by planning overlays. About 11% of the suburb sits within a mapped flood overlay, and 100% is flagged bushfire-prone. There are 3 heritage-listed sites on record, and the dominant land-use zone is Farming Zone (FZ). The median lot measures about 194,443 m² across 232 parcels.
Who lives in Murphys Creek
Census 2021 figures published by the ABS for the Murphys Creek 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 919, and decile 1 within Victoria. The national average is 1000.
Population trend, 2001 to 2025
Estimated resident population of Loddon, the wider ABS statistical area containing Murphys Creek. There is no annual population series published at suburb level, so this describes the surrounding area rather than Murphys Creek itself.
8,033 in 2001 to 7,231 in 2025, down 10%.
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.
Murphys Creek 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 Murphys Creek 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 Murphys Creek lot.
Murphys Creek planning - frequently asked
Is Murphys Creek flood-prone?
About 11% of Murphys Creek falls within a mapped flood overlay, against the council-wide suburb average of 35%.
Is Murphys Creek bushfire-prone?
Around 100% of Murphys Creek is mapped as bushfire-prone, compared with a Loddon average of 100%.
Is Murphys Creek under a flight path?
Aircraft were observed over about 5% of Murphys Creek in the period sampled, but only above 3,000 ft - the lowest measured was 6,000 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 Murphys Creek?
The dominant planning zone in Murphys Creek is Farming Zone (FZ), though the suburb also includes Public Conservation and Resource Zone (PCRZ) and Transport Zone (TRZ2).
Does Murphys Creek have heritage-listed places?
Murphys Creek has 3 heritage-listed places on record.
What is the typical lot size in Murphys Creek?
Across 232 surveyed parcels in Murphys Creek, the median lot size is about 194,443 m². There are also 4 registered easements mapped in the suburb.
Is Murphys Creek an advantaged suburb?
On the ABS SEIFA 2021 index of relative socio-economic advantage and disadvantage (IRSAD), Murphys Creek scores 919 and sits in decile 2 of 10 nationally and decile 1 within Victoria (decile 1 is the most disadvantaged tenth, decile 10 the least).
Compare nearby suburbs
| Nearby suburb | Distance | Flood mapped | Bushfire-prone |
|---|---|---|---|
| Llanelly | 7.0 km | 31% | 100% |
| Arnold West | 7.1 km | 2% | 100% |
| Moliagul Central Goldfields |
7.7 km | 7% | 100% |
| Mcintyre | 8.3 km | Not mapped | 100% |
| Tarnagulla | 8.4 km | 0% | 100% |
| Painswick | 8.5 km | <1% | 100% |
| Inkerman Central Goldfields |
9.9 km | 59% | 100% |
| Rheola | 10.7 km | Not mapped | 100% |
| Arnold | 11.3 km | 41% | 100% |
| Waanyarra | 11.3 km | 5% | 100% |