Paradise Beach flood map & planning overlays
Paradise Beach is an older crowd, joint 61, amid 87.2% environmental overlay.
Free map preview, then PDF reports from $9 - about the price of an iced latte on a public holiday.
A planning-constraint profile of Paradise Beach
(Wellington, VIC) - 3.27 km², mapped from live council and
state overlay data. This suburb is highly constrained.
Profile updated 24 October 2026.
Constraint readout
3.27 km² - this suburb is highly constrained by planning overlays.
Elevation hillshade with street names, clipped to Paradise Beach'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 Paradise Beach
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.
Paradise Beach at a glance
How Paradise Beach is zoned
Selling in Paradise Beach? The zoning and planning overlays on this page are the controls a Section 32 vendor statement discloses.
Across its 3.27 km², Paradise Beach is highly constrained by planning overlays. About 47% of the suburb sits within a mapped flood overlay, and 100% is flagged bushfire-prone. The dominant land-use zone is Rural Conservation Zone (RCZ1). The median lot measures about 826 m² across 1,349 parcels.
Who lives in Paradise Beach
Census 2021 figures published by the ABS for the Paradise Beach 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 856, and decile 1 within Victoria. The national average is 1000.
Age profile
Share of Paradise Beach's 172 residents in each ABS age band.
Population trend, 2001 to 2025
Estimated resident population of Longford - Loch Sport, the wider ABS statistical area containing Paradise Beach. There is no annual population series published at suburb level, so this describes the surrounding area rather than Paradise Beach itself.
3,830 in 2001 to 4,993 in 2025, up 30%.
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.
Paradise Beach 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 Paradise Beach 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 4% of Paradise Beach. 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 Paradise Beach lot.
Paradise Beach planning - frequently asked
Is Paradise Beach flood-prone?
About 47% of Paradise Beach falls within a mapped flood overlay, against the council-wide suburb average of 26%.
Is Paradise Beach bushfire-prone?
Around 100% of Paradise Beach is mapped as bushfire-prone, compared with a Wellington average of 96%.
Is Paradise Beach under a flight path?
Aircraft were observed below 3,000 ft over about 4% of Paradise Beach, and over about 28% 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 4,000 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 Paradise Beach?
The dominant planning zone in Paradise Beach is Rural Conservation Zone (RCZ1), though the suburb also includes Low Density Residential Zone (LDRZ) and Public Conservation and Resource Zone (PCRZ).
Does Paradise Beach have heritage-listed places?
No heritage-listed places are on record within Paradise Beach.
What is the typical lot size in Paradise Beach?
Across 1,349 surveyed parcels in Paradise Beach, the median lot size is about 826 m². There are also 62 registered easements mapped in the suburb.
What is the population of Paradise Beach?
At the 2021 Census Paradise Beach had 172 usual residents, with a median age of 61 and an average household size of 1.6 people. The wider Longford - Loch Sport statistical area, which contains Paradise Beach, went from 3,830 people in 2001 to 4,993 in 2025, up 30%.
Is Paradise Beach an advantaged suburb?
On the ABS SEIFA 2021 index of relative socio-economic advantage and disadvantage (IRSAD), Paradise Beach scores 856 and sits in decile 1 of 10 nationally and decile 1 within Victoria (decile 1 is the most disadvantaged tenth, decile 10 the least).
What is the median household income in Paradise Beach?
Median household income in Paradise Beach was $718 a week at the 2021 Census, against $1,357 for the typical suburb in Wellington. Median rent was $193 a week and the median mortgage repayment $650 a month.
Compare nearby suburbs
| Nearby suburb | Distance | Flood mapped | Bushfire-prone |
|---|---|---|---|
| Golden Beach | 6.6 km | 69% | 100% |
| Dutson Downs | 6.9 km | 39% | 100% |
| Seacombe | 7.1 km | 58% | 100% |
| Flamingo Beach | 12.7 km | 69% | 100% |
| Lake Wellington | 14.2 km | 100% | 7% |
| Dutson | 15.9 km | 43% | 100% |
| Hollands Landing East Gippsland |
16.4 km | 100% | 39% |
| Glomar Beach | 17.3 km | 76% | 100% |
| Meerlieu | 19.7 km | 38% | 100% |
| The Heart | 22.4 km | 85% | 100% |