Piries flood map & planning overlays
Piries has Mansfield's highest median rent, $396.
Free map preview, then PDF reports from $9 - about the price of an iced latte on a public holiday.
A planning-constraint profile of Piries
(Mansfield, VIC) - 37.07 km², mapped from live council and
state overlay data. This suburb is highly constrained.
Profile updated 24 October 2026.
Constraint readout
37.07 km² - this suburb is highly constrained by planning overlays.
Elevation hillshade with street names, clipped to Piries'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 Piries
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.
Piries at a glance
How Piries is zoned
Selling in Piries? The zoning and planning overlays on this page are the controls a Section 32 vendor statement discloses.
Across its 37.07 km², Piries is highly constrained by planning overlays. About 14% 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 39,654 m² across 137 parcels.
Who lives in Piries
Census 2021 figures published by the ABS for the Piries 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 1004, and decile 6 within Victoria. The national average is 1000.
Age profile
Share of Piries's 66 residents in each ABS age band.
Population trend, 2001 to 2025
Estimated resident population of Mansfield (Vic.), the wider ABS statistical area containing Piries. There is no annual population series published at suburb level, so this describes the surrounding area rather than Piries itself.
6,907 in 2001 to 11,324 in 2025, up 64%.
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.
Piries 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 Piries 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 Piries. 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 Piries lot.
Piries planning - frequently asked
Is Piries flood-prone?
About 14% of Piries falls within a mapped flood overlay, against the council-wide suburb average of 7%.
Is Piries bushfire-prone?
Around 100% of Piries is mapped as bushfire-prone, compared with a Mansfield average of 99%.
Is Piries under a flight path?
Aircraft were observed below 3,000 ft over about 4% of Piries, and over about 17% 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 5,500 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 Piries?
The dominant planning zone in Piries is Farming Zone (FZ), though the suburb also includes Public Conservation and Resource Zone (PCRZ) and Public Use Zone (PUZ1).
Does Piries have heritage-listed places?
No heritage-listed places are on record within Piries.
What is the typical lot size in Piries?
Across 137 surveyed parcels in Piries, the median lot size is about 39,654 m². There are also 49 registered easements mapped in the suburb.
Does Piries have a train station?
There is no train station inside Piries itself. The suburb is served by 1 bus stop.
What is the population of Piries?
At the 2021 Census Piries had 66 usual residents, with a median age of 56 and an average household size of 2.6 people. The wider Mansfield (Vic.) statistical area, which contains Piries, went from 6,907 people in 2001 to 11,324 in 2025, up 64%.
Is Piries an advantaged suburb?
On the ABS SEIFA 2021 index of relative socio-economic advantage and disadvantage (IRSAD), Piries scores 1004 and sits in decile 7 of 10 nationally and decile 6 within Victoria (decile 1 is the most disadvantaged tenth, decile 10 the least).
What is the median household income in Piries?
Median household income in Piries was $1,812 a week at the 2021 Census, against $1,408 for the typical suburb in Mansfield. Median rent was $396 a week and the median mortgage repayment $1,667 a month.
Compare nearby suburbs
| Nearby suburb | Distance | Flood mapped | Bushfire-prone |
|---|---|---|---|
| Macs Cove | 2.9 km | 2% | 100% |
| Mountain Bay | 3.3 km | <1% | 100% |
| Howqua Inlet | 5.7 km | 2% | 100% |
| Goughs Bay | 6.0 km | 10% | 100% |
| Delatite | 6.5 km | 25% | 100% |
| Boorolite | 6.7 km | 4% | 100% |
| Howqua | 8.8 km | 4% | 100% |
| Jamieson | 10.1 km | 5% | 100% |
| Howes Creek | 11.8 km | 36% | 92% |
| Mansfield | 14.8 km | 9% | 98% |