The Cove flood map & planning overlays
The Cove carries 35.2% landscape overlay, 6th in Moyne.
Free map preview, then PDF reports from $9 - about the price of an iced latte on a public holiday.
A planning-constraint profile of The Cove
(Moyne, VIC) - 7.45 km², mapped from live council and
state overlay data. This suburb is highly constrained.
Profile updated 24 October 2026.
Constraint readout
7.45 km² - this suburb is highly constrained by planning overlays.
Elevation hillshade with street names, clipped to The Cove'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 The Cove
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: 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.
The Cove at a glance
How The Cove is zoned
Selling in The Cove? The zoning and planning overlays on this page are the controls a Section 32 vendor statement discloses.
Across its 7.45 km², The Cove is highly constrained by planning overlays. Flood mapping covers the suburb and none of it falls 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 214,171 m² across 24 parcels.
Who lives in The Cove
Census 2021 figures published by the ABS for the The Cove 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 1019, and decile 7 within Victoria. The national average is 1000.
Population trend, 2001 to 2025
Estimated resident population of Moyne - East, the wider ABS statistical area containing The Cove. There is no annual population series published at suburb level, so this describes the surrounding area rather than The Cove itself.
6,718 in 2001 to 7,136 in 2025, up 6%.
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.
The Cove 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 The Cove 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 12% of The Cove. 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 The Cove lot.
The Cove planning - frequently asked
Is The Cove flood-prone?
Flood mapping covers The Cove and less than 1% of the suburb falls within a mapped flood overlay (the council-wide suburb average is 9%).
Is The Cove bushfire-prone?
Around 100% of The Cove is mapped as bushfire-prone, compared with a Moyne average of 100%.
Is The Cove under a flight path?
Aircraft were observed below 3,000 ft over about 12% of The Cove, and over about 51% 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 500 ft, with an average of 3,500 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 The Cove?
The dominant planning zone in The Cove is Farming Zone (FZ), though the suburb also includes Public Conservation and Resource Zone (PCRZ).
Does The Cove have heritage-listed places?
No heritage-listed places are on record within The Cove.
What is the typical lot size in The Cove?
Across 24 surveyed parcels in The Cove, the median lot size is about 214,171 m².
Is The Cove an advantaged suburb?
On the ABS SEIFA 2021 index of relative socio-economic advantage and disadvantage (IRSAD), The Cove scores 1019 and sits in decile 7 of 10 nationally and decile 7 within Victoria (decile 1 is the most disadvantaged tenth, decile 10 the least).
Compare nearby suburbs
| Nearby suburb | Distance | Flood mapped | Bushfire-prone |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mepunga | 4.4 km | <1% | 100% |
| Mepunga East | 5.6 km | Not mapped | 100% |
| Nirranda | 7.0 km | 0% | 100% |
| Mepunga West | 7.3 km | <1% | 100% |
| Nullawarre | 10.4 km | 0% | 100% |
| Nullawarre North | 10.5 km | Not mapped | 100% |
| Nirranda South | 10.6 km | 3% | 100% |
| Naringal | 11.4 km | Not mapped | 100% |
| Naringal East | 12.3 km | Not mapped | 100% |
| Allansford Warrnambool |
13.2 km | 6% | 99% |