Blacktown: hazard maps, recorded crime and property reports
What a WattleAddr Property report can tell you about an address in Blacktown, NSW, and what no register covers.
Hazards mapped in Blacktown
What the government maps show. Not a risk rating.
Bush fire prone land
- 7,754 on the map at the address point
- 3,143 on part of the lot only
- 215 at the edge only
- 154,475 not on the map
Check the RFS map. Bush fire prone land by council, on our map.
How this is counted
10,897 of 165,587 addresses (6.6%) are on a lot shown, in whole or in part, as bush fire prone land on the NSW Rural Fire Service map. On 8,065 of 126,418 lots · 3,143 on part of the lot only · 215 touch only the edge.
Flood planning
- 5,294 in Flood Prone and Major Creeks Land
- 15 in other classes on the map
- 429 at the edge only
- 34,741 not on the map
- 125,108 with no map for this land: not known
See the Planning Portal map. Flood planning by council, on our map.
How this is counted
Of the 40,479 addresses on land whose planning instrument has this map, at least 5,294 are on a lot shown, in whole or in part, as a flood class (Flood Prone and Major Creeks Land) on a planning instrument’s map, as published on the NSW Planning Portal. 15 addresses are in classes the map calls Land Identified in Section 3.27: 4; Cultural Heritage Landscape Area: 11, counted separately. 429 addresses touch only the edge of a mapped class. The other 125,108 addresses are on land zoned under a planning instrument that has no flood planning map in these layers; we cannot say how many of them are in it, and no share is given for the council as a whole. A flood planning area is a planning control, not a flood model: it says nothing about overland flow.
Mine subsidence district
- 165,587 not in a district
None of the 165,587 addresses is in a declared mine subsidence district, tested at the address point. Mine subsidence district by council, on our map.
How this is counted
None of the 165,587 addresses is in a declared mine subsidence district, tested at the address point.
Acid sulfate soils
- 1 in Class 5, the buffer
- 37,106 not on the map
- 128,480 with no map for this land: not known
Of the 37,107 addresses on land whose planning instrument has this map, none is on a lot shown, in whole or in part, as acid sulfate soils Classes 1 to 4 on a planning instrument’s map, as published on the NSW Planning Portal. A further 1 address is recorded against Class 5, the buffer around the other classes, where only works that could lower the water table need consent. Part of such a lot may be in another class. 128,480 addresses are on land zoned under a planning instrument that has no acid sulfate soils map in these layers; we cannot say how many of them are in it, and no share is given for the council as a whole. See the Planning Portal map. Acid sulfate soils by council, on our map.
How this is counted
Of the 37,107 addresses on land whose planning instrument has this map, none is on a lot shown, in whole or in part, as acid sulfate soils Classes 1 to 4 on a planning instrument’s map, as published on the NSW Planning Portal. A further 1 address is recorded against Class 5, the buffer around the other classes, where only works that could lower the water table need consent. Part of such a lot may be in another class. The other 128,480 addresses are on land zoned under a planning instrument that has no acid sulfate soils map in these layers; we cannot say how many of them are in it, and no share is given for the council as a whole.
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Free: which registers cover the address. The report ($9.90 including GST): whether the lot is on them, and how much of it.
How these are counted
Counted from every address in the New South Wales address register, in build 60 of 18 October 2026, out of the addresses on land each register covers; a share is given only where the register covers nine in ten of the council’s addresses. Addresses, not homes: an apartment building is many addresses on one lot, and a vacant block is one. “Part of the lot” counts land, not buildings: the mapped area may not reach the house. A lot the map touches only at the edge, within the map’s accuracy, is shown as “Check” in a report and is counted in the base but not as on the map, so a share can be low by up to the edge count in its row. These are counts of what the government maps show, by our method; they are not a risk rating, and a council’s own count of “properties” may not match them. See why unmapped is not clear. Landslide maps are not counted here: their classes differ from one council to the next. A report shows them for one address.
Counts derived by WattleAddr from these registers, by our method. Bush fire prone land: © State of New South Wales (NSW Rural Fire Service); Flood and acid sulfate soils maps: © State of New South Wales (Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure); Addresses: © State of New South Wales (Spatial Services, Department of Customer Service); Lots: © Department of Customer Service 12 October 2026; Local government areas and mine subsidence districts: © Department of Customer Service 7 September 2026; Council boundaries: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS) Edition 3, 2021, Local Government Areas. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
What the report covers here
- Land zoneRead by the report
- Minimum lot sizeRead by the report
- Height of buildingWhere the council’s plan maps it
- Floor space ratioWhere the council’s plan maps it
- Bush fire prone landRead by the report
- Flood planning areaA map covers part of the council
- Acid sulfate soilsA map covers part of the council
- Mine subsidence districtRead by the report
- HeritageRead by the report
- Land value (not market value)Where a published figure matches the lot
- Who owns the landNo open register
- What is registered on the titleNo open register
- What it last sold forNot licensed for us to publish
What the report reads, and what no register covers
Every New South Wales address, including every address in Blacktown. The report reads the land zoning, minimum lot size, height limit and floor space ratio from the environmental planning instrument that applies, and the bush fire prone land, flood planning area, acid sulfate, mine subsidence, heritage and other hazard layers the state publishes, together with the Valuer General's land value. Each figure carries the register it came from and the date it was true.
What no register covers: the report lists these rather than leaving them out, and names who holds the answer and who sets the fee. Who owns the land and what is registered against the title are not on any open register, and sale prices are published under a licence that does not let us republish them. Most New South Wales councils have no flood planning map in the Planning Portal's layers, so across much of the state a flood search has nothing to search. An absence there means no map in the layers we read covers the land, not that the land does not flood. That distinction is the point of the whole report.
Crime rates in Blacktown: ten years of recorded crime
For the council area, not any one property. We do not rank councils and we do not turn this into a safety score.
How to read these charts
This is about the council area, not about any one property. Every address in Blacktown carries the same figures. Each chart shows the incidents recorded in each of the ten years to March 2026; the darkest bar is the latest year, where a trend was tested. Each chart has its own scale, starting at zero, so read the shape, not the height against another chart. Beneath it, the latest rate per 100,000 people (solid) is set against the New South Wales rate (outlined). The trend figure is the Bureau’s own, and stable is its word for a change that was not statistically significant, not a sign that nothing moved.
Break and enter, homes
Down 8.8% a year over ten yearsMotor vehicle theft
Down 1.8% a year over ten yearsTheft from vehicles
Down 8.4% a year over ten yearsMalicious damage to property
Down 3.8% a year over ten yearsAssault, non-domestic
Stable: no significant trend over ten yearsThe same figures as a table
| Offence | Ten year trend | Blacktown | NSW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Break and enter, homes | Down 8.8% a year over ten years | 158.4 | 212.3 |
| Motor vehicle theft | Down 1.8% a year over ten years | 156.5 | 171.2 |
| Theft from vehicles | Down 8.4% a year over ten years | 260.5 | 295.5 |
| Malicious damage to property | Down 3.8% a year over ten years | 554.0 | 554.7 |
| Assault, non-domestic | Stable: no significant trend over ten years | 395.6 | 401.8 |
A rate shown as not published is one the Bureau does not calculate: it excludes councils with fewer than 3,000 people, because rates there are very sensitive to small changes in population and in the number of incidents recorded. It also cautions that a rate is hard to read where visitors are many beside residents, because it is calculated on the resident population. Recorded incidents are what was reported to and recorded by the NSW Police Force: a rise can mean more of an offence, or more of it being reported, and these figures cannot tell the two apart. A count also moves with the population, which the rate allows for and the bars do not. We leave out offences whose recorded numbers depend mostly on police activity, such as drug and weapons offences; the offences shown are still only what was reported and recorded.
Charts drawn by WattleAddr from the Bureau’s figures. © NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, CC BY 4.0 Source data. Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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The other New South Wales council areas that share a stretch of land boundary with Blacktown, in alphabetical order; councils across the State border or across open water are not listed. Sharing a boundary says nothing about hazards, zoning or crime on either side of it: each page has its own figures. Every council area in New South Wales is on one page.
Neighbours worked out by WattleAddr from the council boundaries (Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS) Edition 3, 2021, Local Government Areas. Licensed under CC BY 4.0).