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Riverina

Albury City Council

557 rural lots across 8 suburbs. Dominant land use: Residential and farm infrastructure.

557
Rural lots
7,097 ha
Rural land
Good grazing
Typical capability (class 4)
22 tCO₂e/ha
Mean above-ground biomass

Albury City Council — rural suburbs

© NSW Government · Digital Earth Australia · CSIRO

Council boundary outlined; each circle is one rural suburb sized by rural-lot count. Click a circle to open the suburb page. Toggle the Capability / Bushfire / Flood overlays in the top-left.

Suburb circles · sized by rural lots
10 500 5,000+
Overlays © NSW Government
Capability

Land & soil capability mix

Distribution of land-capability classes across the 557 rural lots in Albury City Council.

Class 4 Good grazing
Class 1–20%
Class 3–457%
Class 5–630%
Class 7–813%
NSW DPI Land & Soil Capability v4 — Class 1 is prime cropping land, Class 8 is conservation only. Polygon-intersect with each rural lot.
Climate

Rainfall, temperature, growing window

Long-term climate averages across rural lots in this council.

Annual rainfall
672 mm
Sub-humid
Mean max temp
22.1 °C
annual average daily max
Extreme heat days
18 / year
Warm summers
Frost days
40 / year
Frost-prone
Aridity index
0.48 P/PET
Semi-arid

Climate values are the average across rural lots in this area, drawn from Bureau of Meteorology 30-year normals.

Carbon

Carbon profile

Above-ground biomass — woody vegetation already on the land.

22 tCO₂e/ha
mean across rural lots
126,451 tCO₂e
total estimated
Satellite above-ground biomass, summarised per lot.
Vegetation

Cover profile

Digital Earth Australia Fractional Cover, from Sentinel-2 imagery.

Green cover56%
Forest cover6%
Water

Surface water rights and groundwater

Water-sharing-plan coverage and bore proximity across rural lots.

Water access

Surface and groundwater

Water-sharing-plan coverage and bore proximity across rural lots.

100%
in a water sharing plan
0%
with groundwater access
Nearest registered bore
1.0
km away
A bore is close — within walking distance for most lots.
Plan: Water Sharing Plan for the Murray Unregulated River Water Sources 2024

Source: NSW DCCEEW Water Sharing Plans · NSW DCCEEW Groundwater Bores Register.

Risks & constraints

Hazard exposure across rural lots

Share of rural lots in Albury City Council intersecting each hazard or planning constraint.

Bushfire-prone 95%
Threatened ecological 11%
No exposure
Flood-prone · Groundwater vulnerable · Heritage-listed · Salinity-prone · Landslide-prone · Mine subsidence · Acid-sulfate soils · Contamination history · Coastal environment · In mining title
Infrastructure

Access and grid connection

Mean distances from rural lots to roads, schools, hospitals, transmission and substations across Albury City Council.

Connectivity

Roads, rail, schools

Classified road 1.4 km
Nearest school 4.0 km
Rail station 11.1 km
Energy

Grid + transmission

Substation 4.1 km · 330 kV
Transmission line 1.3 km · 330 kV
Transmission line on-doorstep — viable for utility-scale solar.
Services

Health + water

Nearest hospital 10.9 km
Water treatment 8.8 km
Rural market
High confidence

Land sale activity

Registered rural-zoned sales across Albury City Council, last 5 years.

$222k
per hectare (median)
32
sales (last 5 yrs)
Land use

Dominant rural land use

From the ABARES Catchment Scale Land Use classification.

Residential and farm infrastructure

The largest-share land-use category across rural lots in Albury City Council.

Market trends

Council-wide pulse

12-month price and volume movement, rent and yield. Reflects the broader market across Albury City Council; the rural-only rate above is the rural benchmark.

Price change · 12 mo
+1.1%
median price across all sales (residential + rural)
Price change · 3 mo
+22.9%
Sales volume · 12 mo
+11.3%
year-on-year change in sale count
Median weekly rent
$440
+9.3% y/y
Gross rental yield
2.46%
Days on market
48 days
8 active listings

Trend indicators reflect the broader suburb market (rural + residential). $/ha rural rate above is the rural-only benchmark.

Rural suburbs in Albury City Council (7)

Click any column header to sort.

Suburb Rural lots
Lake Hume Village 3691 82
Splitters Creek 2640 80
South Albury 2640 71
Thurgoona 2640 34
East Albury 2640 7
West Albury 2640 6
Ettamogah 2640 2
Land character
Geology Lachlan Orogen Wine region Big Rivers

About Albury City Council

What's the dominant rural land use in Albury City Council?

Across 557 rural lots in Albury City Council, the dominant land use is Residential and farm infrastructure. Typical land capability is good grazing.

What's the climate of Albury City Council's rural land?

Rural lots in Albury City Council average 672 mm annual rainfall, mean daily max temperature 22.1°C, and 40 frost days per year. Aridity index 0.48.

What's the rural land market like in Albury City Council?

The median rural rate across Albury City Council is $222k/ha based on 32 registered rural-zoned sales in the last 5 years.

What data sources are used?

Land capability comes from the NSW Land & Soil Capability mapping. Carbon stock is derived from the ESA Climate Change Initiative Biomass product. Vegetation cover is Digital Earth Australia Fractional Cover from Sentinel-2. Rural market activity is from registered NSW property sales on rural-zoned lots. Land use is the ABARES Catchment Scale Land Use category, and lot identity comes from the NSW Digital Cadastral Database.

Rural lots are those in a rural (RU) zone under the local environmental plan.