White Hills flood map & planning overlays
White Hills has 32 bus stops, 8th across Greater Bendigo.
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A planning-constraint profile of White Hills
(Greater Bendigo, VIC) - 4.89 km², mapped from live council and
state overlay data. This suburb is highly constrained.
Profile updated 25 October 2026.
Constraint readout
4.89 km² - this suburb is highly constrained by planning overlays.
Elevation hillshade with street names, clipped to White Hills'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 White Hills
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.
White Hills at a glance
How White Hills is zoned
Selling in White Hills? The zoning and planning overlays on this page are the controls a Section 32 vendor statement discloses.
Across its 4.89 km², White Hills is highly constrained by planning overlays. About 17% of the suburb sits within a mapped flood overlay, and 72% is flagged bushfire-prone. There are 17 heritage-listed sites on record, and the dominant land-use zone is General Residential Zone (GRZ). The median lot measures about 614 m² across 2,093 parcels.
Who lives in White Hills
Census 2021 figures published by the ABS for the White Hills 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 946, and decile 2 within Victoria. The national average is 1000.
Age profile
Share of White Hills's 3,620 residents in each ABS age band.
Population trend, 2001 to 2025
Estimated resident population of White Hills - Ascot, the wider ABS statistical area containing White Hills. There is no annual population series published at suburb level, so this describes the surrounding area rather than White Hills itself.
6,171 in 2001 to 16,095 in 2025, up 161%.
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.
White Hills 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 White Hills 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 White Hills lot.
White Hills planning - frequently asked
Is White Hills flood-prone?
About 17% of White Hills falls within a mapped flood overlay, against the council-wide suburb average of 10%.
Is White Hills bushfire-prone?
Around 72% of White Hills is mapped as bushfire-prone, compared with a Greater Bendigo average of 89%.
Is White Hills under a flight path?
Aircraft were observed over about 12% of White Hills in the period sampled, but only above 3,000 ft - the lowest measured was 7,000 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 White Hills?
The dominant planning zone in White Hills is General Residential Zone (GRZ), though the suburb also includes Low Density Residential Zone (LDRZ1) and Public Park and Recreation Zone (PPRZ).
Does White Hills have heritage-listed places?
White Hills has 17 heritage-listed places on record.
What is the typical lot size in White Hills?
Across 2,093 surveyed parcels in White Hills, the median lot size is about 614 m². There are also 893 registered easements mapped in the suburb.
Does White Hills have a train station?
There is no train station inside White Hills itself. The suburb is served by 32 bus stops.
What is the population of White Hills?
At the 2021 Census White Hills had 3,620 usual residents, with a median age of 37 and an average household size of 2.4 people. The wider White Hills - Ascot statistical area, which contains White Hills, went from 6,171 people in 2001 to 16,095 in 2025, up 161%.
Is White Hills an advantaged suburb?
On the ABS SEIFA 2021 index of relative socio-economic advantage and disadvantage (IRSAD), White Hills scores 946 and sits in decile 3 of 10 nationally and decile 2 within Victoria (decile 1 is the most disadvantaged tenth, decile 10 the least).
What is the median household income in White Hills?
Median household income in White Hills was $1,395 a week at the 2021 Census, against $1,543 for the typical suburb in Greater Bendigo. Median rent was $300 a week and the median mortgage repayment $1,300 a month.
Compare nearby suburbs
| Nearby suburb | Distance | Flood mapped | Bushfire-prone |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jackass Flat | 2.0 km | 9% | 89% |
| North Bendigo | 2.3 km | 9% | 46% |
| East Bendigo | 2.5 km | 9% | 75% |
| Epsom | 3.1 km | 59% | 74% |
| Bendigo | 3.7 km | 22% | <1% |
| Ascot (Bendigo) | 3.8 km | 14% | 86% |
| California Gully | 3.9 km | 3% | 52% |
| Eaglehawk | 4.2 km | 5% | 86% |
| Long Gully | 4.3 km | 5% | 63% |
| Ironbark | 4.6 km | Not mapped | 30% |