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New England

Armidale Regional Council

10,897 rural lots across 43 suburbs. Dominant land use: Grazing modified pastures.

10,897
Rural lots
587,871 ha
Rural land
Limited ag use
Typical capability (class 5)
64 tCO₂e/ha
Mean above-ground biomass

Armidale Regional 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 10,897 rural lots in Armidale Regional Council.

Class 5 Limited ag use
Class 1–20%
Class 3–444%
Class 5–649%
Class 7–88%
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
838 mm
Moderate rainfall
Mean max temp
19.5 °C
annual average daily max
Extreme heat days
1 / year
Cool summers
Frost days
69 / year
Frost-prone
Aridity index
0.72 P/PET
Humid

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.

64 tCO₂e/ha
mean across rural lots
35.69 M tCO₂e
total estimated
Satellite above-ground biomass, summarised per lot.
Vegetation

Cover profile

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

Green cover49%
Forest cover18%
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
2.5
km away
A bore is within easy driving — typical of farming country.
Plan: Water Sharing Plan for the Macleay Unregulated and Alluvial Water Sources 2016

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

Risks & constraints

Hazard exposure across rural lots

Share of rural lots in Armidale Regional Council intersecting each hazard or planning constraint.

Bushfire-prone 95%
Threatened ecological 21%
Heritage-listed 1%
No exposure
Flood-prone · Groundwater vulnerable · 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 Armidale Regional Council.

Connectivity

Roads, rail, schools

Classified road 6.6 km
Nearest school 13.0 km
Rail station 34.4 km
Energy

Grid + transmission

Substation 14.8 km · 330 kV
Transmission line 5.4 km · 330 kV
Transmission line a moderate distance — small-scale connection feasible.
Services

Health + water

Nearest hospital 22.6 km
Water treatment 21.2 km
Rural market
High confidence

Land sale activity

Registered rural-zoned sales across Armidale Regional Council, last 5 years.

$942k
per hectare (median)
76
sales (last 5 yrs)
Land use

Dominant rural land use

From the ABARES Catchment Scale Land Use classification.

Grazing modified pastures

The largest-share land-use category across rural lots in Armidale Regional Council.

Market trends

Council-wide pulse

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

Price change · 12 mo
+139.0%
median price across all sales (residential + rural)
Price change · 3 mo
+174.4%
Sales volume · 12 mo
+178.3%
year-on-year change in sale count
Median weekly rent
$384
+7.9% y/y
Gross rental yield
3.16%
Days on market
37 days
22 active listings

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

Rural suburbs in Armidale Regional Council (31)

Click any column header to sort.

Suburb Rural lots
Armidale 2350 1,305
Hillgrove 2350 824
Thalgarrah 2350 742
Wollomombi 2350 641
Guyra 2365 637
Black Mountain 2365 468
Ebor 2350 388
Metz 2350 359
Aberfoyle 2350 335
Llangothlin 2365 311
Lower Creek 2440 270
Wongwibinda 2350 265
Enmore 2042 184
Castle Doyle 2350 175
Wards Mistake 2350 169
Baldersleigh 2365 155
Jeogla 2350 155
Tenterden 2365 153
Falconer 2365 148
Brushy Creek 2365 145
Tubbamurra 2365 137
Oban 2365 111
Bald Blair 2365 110
Brockley 2365 95
Carrai 2440 80
Tilbuster 2350 78
Backwater 2365 77
Duval 2350 43
Puddledock 2350 42
Donald Creek 2350 23
The Gulf 2365 7
Mining & resources

Subsurface activity nearby

Active mining titles, coal-mine proximity and critical-mineral occurrences across Armidale Regional Council.

In mining title
0%
of rural lots
Nearest mine
101.7 km
mean across lots
Coal < 10 km
0%
of rural lots
Nearest critical mineral
35.6 km
Au, (W, WO3, Sb)
Land character
Geology New England Orogen Wine region New England Australia

About Armidale Regional Council

What's the dominant rural land use in Armidale Regional Council?

Across 10,897 rural lots in Armidale Regional Council, the dominant land use is Grazing modified pastures. Typical land capability is limited ag use.

What's the climate of Armidale Regional Council's rural land?

Rural lots in Armidale Regional Council average 838 mm annual rainfall, mean daily max temperature 19.5°C, and 69 frost days per year. Aridity index 0.72.

What's the rural land market like in Armidale Regional Council?

The median rural rate across Armidale Regional Council is $942k/ha based on 76 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.