Brisbane suburb noise pages

Brisbane is the third Australian city to get suburb noise pages, after Sydney and Melbourne. Today we’re publishing 30 of them, listed and ranked at /australia/qld/.

What’s on a Brisbane suburb page

Each page works like the Sydney and Melbourne ones. At the top is a map of the suburb’s boundary over the noise heatmap, followed by a short verdict and the numbers behind it: overflights on a typical day, the typical height of those aircraft, how much of the traffic is low, the share of arrivals, when the first and last movements usually happen, an hourly pattern and a weekday and weekend comparison. Every page also shows the suburb’s postcode.

The pages combine all the traffic we track in the area. Brisbane Airport accounts for most of it. Archerfield, the general-aviation airport south of the city, is included too, and a third group covers other low-flying aircraft such as helicopters. The “Where the noise comes from” section shows how the total splits between them.

Overflight counts and heights come from recorded flight tracks. Noise levels are modelled estimates based on aircraft type, height and distance. They are useful for comparing suburbs, and they are no substitute for standing in the street at 7 AM.

Which suburbs got a page

For Brisbane we focused on the suburbs near the airport where the most people live. Each one also had to pass the same test as Sydney and Melbourne, meaning regular low overflights and a minimum modelled noise level.

That puts the focus on the suburbs near the airport where the most people live. It also means some suburbs with regular overflights don’t have a page. You can still check any address in range on the Brisbane Airport map: drop a pin and the report shows flights, heights and an hourly breakdown for that exact point.

The most overflown Brisbane suburbs

The data covers flights recorded from late June to September 2026. Ranked by overflights on a typical day, the top three are Tingalpa, East Brisbane and Hamilton. Woolloongabba, Cannon Hill and Morningside follow.

Hamilton is a good example of how much detail sits on each page. It sees about 54 overflights on a typical day, nine in ten of them below 3,000 ft, at a typical height of around 1,300 ft. Hamilton, Ascot and Bulimba are among the suburbs whose overflights changed when Brisbane Airport’s new parallel runway opened in July 2020, and each has its own page.

Finding your suburb

Start from the region page at /australia/qld/, which lists all 30 suburbs in rank order with their postcodes. Type a suburb name or postcode into the filter box to jump to it. The Brisbane Airport page also has a suburb noise guide table that links to each page, and suburb names in its neighbourhood guide link through as well.