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Northern Rivers

Ballina Shire Council

3,355 rural lots across 36 suburbs. Dominant land use: Residential and farm infrastructure.

3,355
Rural lots
28,437 ha
Rural land
Limited ag use
Typical capability (class 6)
n/a
Carbon not mapped here

Ballina Shire 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 3,355 rural lots in Ballina Shire Council.

Class 6 Limited ag use
Class 1–20%
Class 3–436%
Class 5–659%
Class 7–84%
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
1,286 mm
Wet
Mean max temp
25.4 °C
annual average daily max
Extreme heat days
7 / year
Mild summers
Frost days
1 / year
Frost-free
Aridity index
0.82 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.

Above-ground biomass is not mapped across this council's rural lots — typical of small coastal or inner-urban councils outside the satellite biomass product's coverage.
Vegetation

Cover profile

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

Green cover69%
Forest cover10%
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
0.3
km away
Bore on or beside the property is typical.
Plan: Water Sharing Plan for the Richmond River Area Unregulated, Regulated and Alluvial Water Sources 2023

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

Risks & constraints

Hazard exposure across rural lots

Share of rural lots in Ballina Shire Council intersecting each hazard or planning constraint.

Bushfire-prone 86%
Acid-sulfate soils 37%
Coastal environment 31%
Threatened ecological 16%
Heritage-listed 1%
No exposure
Flood-prone · Groundwater vulnerable · Salinity-prone · Landslide-prone · Mine subsidence · Contamination history · In mining title
Infrastructure

Access and grid connection

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

Connectivity

Roads, rail, schools

Classified road 1.7 km
Nearest school 2.8 km
Rail station 43.8 km
Energy

Grid + transmission

Substation 5.3 km · 132 kV
Transmission line 3.1 km · 132 kV
Transmission line within commercial-solar range.
Services

Health + water

Nearest hospital 9.9 km
Water treatment 4.2 km
Rural market
High confidence

Land sale activity

Registered rural-zoned sales across Ballina Shire Council, last 5 years.

$829k
per hectare (median)
69
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 Ballina Shire Council.

Market trends

Council-wide pulse

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

Price change · 12 mo
+631.9%
median price across all sales (residential + rural)
Price change · 3 mo
+24.8%
Sales volume · 12 mo
+137.5%
year-on-year change in sale count
Median weekly rent
$665
+9.2% y/y
Gross rental yield
2.70%
Days on market
47 days
7 active listings

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

Rural suburbs in Ballina Shire Council (30)

Click any column header to sort.

Suburb Rural lots
Tintenbar 2478 332
Alstonville 2477 221
Teven 2478 214
East Wardell 2478 190
Pimlico 2478 175
Alstonvale 2477 174
Meerschaum Vale 2477 141
Wardell 2477 136
Uralba 2477 122
Tuckombil 2477 114
Fernleigh 2479 109
Lennox Head 2478 107
Empire Vale 2478 107
Dalwood 2477 99
Cumbalum 2478 98
Rous 2477 98
Rous Mill 2477 91
Lynwood 2477 89
Keith Hall 2478 74
Kinvara 2478 67
Knockrow 2479 65
Ballina 2478 64
West Ballina 2478 64
Wollongbar 2477 54
Brooklet 2479 42
Coolgardie 2478 40
Patchs Beach 2478 29
Skennars Head 2478 28
South Ballina 2478 22
Bagotville 2477 19
Land character
Geology New England Orogen Wine region Northern Rivers

About Ballina Shire Council

What's the dominant rural land use in Ballina Shire Council?

Across 3,355 rural lots in Ballina Shire Council, the dominant land use is Residential and farm infrastructure. Typical land capability is limited ag use.

What's the climate of Ballina Shire Council's rural land?

Rural lots in Ballina Shire Council average 1,286 mm annual rainfall, mean daily max temperature 25.4°C, and 1 frost days per year. Aridity index 0.82.

What's the rural land market like in Ballina Shire Council?

The median rural rate across Ballina Shire Council is $829k/ha based on 69 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.