Sailors Gully flood map & planning overlays
Sailors Gully keeps 24 heritage places on its 1,107 m² lots.
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A planning-constraint profile of Sailors Gully
(Greater Bendigo, VIC) - 4.33 km², mapped from live council and
state overlay data. This suburb is highly constrained.
Profile updated 25 October 2026.
Constraint readout
4.33 km² - this suburb is highly constrained by planning overlays.
Elevation hillshade with street names, clipped to Sailors Gully'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 Sailors Gully
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.
Sailors Gully at a glance
How Sailors Gully is zoned
Selling in Sailors Gully? The zoning and planning overlays on this page are the controls a Section 32 vendor statement discloses.
Across its 4.33 km², Sailors Gully is highly constrained by planning overlays. About 4% of the suburb sits within a mapped flood overlay, and 100% is flagged bushfire-prone. There are 24 heritage-listed sites on record, and the dominant land-use zone is Public Conservation and Resource Zone (PCRZ). The median lot measures about 1,107 m² across 514 parcels.
Who lives in Sailors Gully
Census 2021 figures published by the ABS for the Sailors Gully 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 900, and decile 1 within Victoria. The national average is 1000.
Age profile
Share of Sailors Gully's 743 residents in each ABS age band.
Population trend, 2001 to 2025
Estimated resident population of California Gully - Eaglehawk, the wider ABS statistical area containing Sailors Gully. There is no annual population series published at suburb level, so this describes the surrounding area rather than Sailors Gully itself.
9,453 in 2001 to 13,523 in 2025, up 43%.
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.
Sailors Gully 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 25 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 Sailors Gully 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 Sailors Gully lot.
Sailors Gully planning - frequently asked
Is Sailors Gully flood-prone?
About 4% of Sailors Gully falls within a mapped flood overlay, against the council-wide suburb average of 10%.
Is Sailors Gully bushfire-prone?
Around 100% of Sailors Gully is mapped as bushfire-prone, compared with a Greater Bendigo average of 89%.
Is Sailors Gully under a flight path?
Aircraft were observed over about 12% of Sailors Gully in the period sampled, but only above 3,000 ft - the lowest measured was 4,500 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 Sailors Gully?
The dominant planning zone in Sailors Gully is Public Conservation and Resource Zone (PCRZ), though the suburb also includes General Residential Zone (GRZ) and Low Density Residential Zone (LDRZ4).
Does Sailors Gully have heritage-listed places?
Sailors Gully has 24 heritage-listed places on record.
What is the typical lot size in Sailors Gully?
Across 514 surveyed parcels in Sailors Gully, the median lot size is about 1,107 m². There are also 89 registered easements mapped in the suburb.
What is the population of Sailors Gully?
At the 2021 Census Sailors Gully had 743 usual residents, with a median age of 45 and an average household size of 2.4 people. The wider California Gully - Eaglehawk statistical area, which contains Sailors Gully, went from 9,453 people in 2001 to 13,523 in 2025, up 43%.
Is Sailors Gully an advantaged suburb?
On the ABS SEIFA 2021 index of relative socio-economic advantage and disadvantage (IRSAD), Sailors Gully scores 900 and sits in decile 2 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 Sailors Gully?
Median household income in Sailors Gully was $1,319 a week at the 2021 Census, against $1,543 for the typical suburb in Greater Bendigo. Median rent was $290 a week and the median mortgage repayment $1,192 a month.
Compare nearby suburbs
| Nearby suburb | Distance | Flood mapped | Bushfire-prone |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eaglehawk North | 2.5 km | 4% | 100% |
| Eaglehawk | 2.7 km | 5% | 86% |
| California Gully | 3.4 km | 3% | 52% |
| Jackass Flat | 4.7 km | 9% | 89% |
| Long Gully | 4.8 km | 5% | 63% |
| Myers Flat | 4.9 km | 21% | 100% |
| West Bendigo | 5.2 km | 2% | 100% |
| North Bendigo | 5.5 km | 9% | 46% |
| Maiden Gully | 6.0 km | 6% | 99% |
| Ironbark | 6.1 km | Not mapped | 30% |