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Bathurst Regional Council

9,966 rural lots across 82 suburbs. Dominant land use: Grazing modified pastures.

9,966

Rural lots

497,960 ha

Rural land

Limited ag use

Typical capability (LSC class 5)

37 tCO₂e/ha

Mean above-ground biomass

Bathurst Regional Council — rural suburbs

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 NSW DPI Land & Soil Capability classes across the 9,966 rural lots in Bathurst Regional Council.

Class 1–25%

Class 3–414%

Class 5–675%

Class 7–87%

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

30-year climate normals from BOM weather stations, averaged across rural lots in this council.

Annual rainfall

707 mm

Moderate rainfall

Mean max temp

19.7 °C

annual average daily max

Extreme heat days

4 / year

Cool summers

Frost days

81 / year

Frost-prone

Aridity index

0.54 P/PET

Sub-humid

Climate values are the average across rural lots in this suburb, drawn from BOM 30-year normals (~1,820 weather stations, KNN to lot centroids).

Carbon

Carbon profile

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

37 tCO₂e/ha

mean across rural lots

19.12 M tCO₂e

total estimated

ESA CCI Biomass 2023, ~100m raster.

Vegetation

Cover profile

DEA Fractional Cover from Sentinel-2 (25m).

Green cover52%

Forest cover22%

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

with groundwater access

Nearest registered bore

0.9

km away

A bore is close — within walking distance for most lots.

Plan: Water Sharing Plan for the Macquarie/Wambuul Bogan Unregulated Rivers Water Sources 2026

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

Risks & constraints

Hazard exposure across rural lots

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

Bushfire-prone 64%

Threatened ecological 10%

Heritage-listed 9%

Flood-prone 4%

No exposure

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 Bathurst Regional Council.

Connectivity

Roads, rail, schools

Classified road 4.2 km

Nearest school 7.4 km

Rail station 22.0 km

Energy

Grid + transmission

Substation 16.8 km · 132 kV

Transmission line 11.2 km · 500 kV

Transmission line a moderate distance — small-scale connection feasible.

Services

Health + water

Nearest hospital 22.5 km

Water treatment 16.3 km

Rural market

High confidence

Land sale activity

Registered RU-zoned sales across Bathurst Regional Council, last 5 years.

$340k

per hectare (median)

170

sales (last 5 yrs)

Land use

Dominant rural land use

From ABARES Catchment Scale Land Use.

Grazing modified pastures

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

Market trends

Council-wide pulse

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

Price change · 12 mo

+273.0% ↑

median price across all sales (residential + rural)

Price change · 3 mo

+5.7% ↑

Sales volume · 12 mo

+293.7% ↑

year-on-year change in sale count

Median weekly rent

$458

+10.4% y/y

Gross rental yield

3.26%

Days on market

32 days ↑

3 active listings

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

Rural suburbs in Bathurst Regional Council (61)

Click any column header to sort. Capability is the median LSC class across rural lots; carbon is mean tCO₂e/ha; $/ha is the median 5-year rural sale rate (H/M/L pill = data confidence).

Suburb	Rural lots↓	Hectares	Capability	Carbon t/ha	$/ha (5y)
Wattle Flat 2795	524	7,432	Good grazing (4)	49	$1.26M H
Hill End 2850	419	21,713	Limited ag use (6)	64	—
Duramana 2795	315	18,243	Limited ag use (6)	15	$11k M
Trunkey Creek 2795	299	10,475	Limited ag use (6)	77	$1.70M H
Wimbledon 2795	271	3,661	Limited ag use (5)	22	$72k M
Perthville 2795	239	5,294	Limited ag use (5)	12	$28k M
Yetholme 2795	233	7,835	Limited ag use (5)	93	$61k M
Kelso 2795	228	2,555	Prime cropping (2)	19	$359k H
Peel 2795	220	12,685	Limited ag use (6)	18	$1.02M H
Rock Forest 2795	201	12,505	Limited ag use (5)	14	—
Georges Plains 2795	184	6,529	Limited ag use (5)	8	$36k L
Evans Plains 2795	171	8,916	Limited ag use (5)	13	$7k L
White Rock 2795	169	2,473	Limited ag use (5)	18	$77k H
Eglinton 2795	166	6,857	Good grazing (3)	14	$620k M
Turondale 2795	154	11,289	Limited ag use (6)	34	—
Limekilns 2795	143	8,241	Limited ag use (5)	23	$23k L
Fosters Valley 2795	126	7,703	Limited ag use (6)	18	$40k L
Abercrombie River 2795	121	16,136	Limited ag use (6)	33	—
Cow Flat 2795	104	5,477	Limited ag use (5)	25	—
Clear Creek 2795	103	7,405	Limited ag use (5)	19	$16k M
Billywillinga 2795	102	7,352	Limited ag use (6)	43	$151k L
Brewongle 2795	98	6,245	Limited ag use (5)	5	$25k M
Sallys Flat 2850	97	7,508	Limited ag use (6)	16	—
Glanmire 2795	97	6,642	Limited ag use (5)	10	$10k M
Napoleon Reef 2795	96	3,984	Limited ag use (6)	52	$324k M
Wiagdon 2795	96	10,016	Limited ag use (6)	16	$51 L
Copperhannia 2795	89	22,110	Limited ag use (6)	49	—
The Rocks 2000	88	5,896	Limited ag use (5)	15	$12k L
Mount Rankin 2795	86	12,355	Limited ag use (6)	28	$20k L
Colo 2756	85	8,526	Limited ag use (6)	50	—
Raglan 2795	84	1,369	Good grazing (3)	32	$745k H
Wambool 2795	83	2,826	Limited ag use (5)	24	$67 L
Walang 2795	82	3,815	Limited ag use (5)	48	$20k L
Tannas Mount 2795	74	7,965	Limited ag use (6)	14	—
Bruinbun 2795	72	21,639	Conservation only (7)	37	$3k L
Freemantle 2795	71	8,825	Limited ag use (6)	18	$14k L
Gormans Hill 2795	66	2,230	Prime cropping (2)	11	$1.07M M
Dunkeld 2795	60	1,583	Limited ag use (5)	8	$67k M
Forest Grove 2795	56	1,392	Good grazing (3)	25	$923k L
Mount Panorama 2795	53	362	Limited ag use (5)	15	$444k L
Killongbutta 2795	51	13,170	Limited ag use (6)	30	$2k L
Fitzgeralds Mount 2799	51	3,129	Good grazing (4)	42	$65k N
Millah Murrah 2795	48	7,611	Limited ag use (6)	14	—
Locksley 2795	47	3,000	Limited ag use (5)	29	$71k L
Laffing Waters 2795	46	2,895	Good grazing (3)	8	$64k M
Rockley Mount 2795	46	2,195	Limited ag use (5)	51	$41k L
Bathampton 2795	42	3,015	Limited ag use (5)	10	—
Kirkconnell 2795	39	1,945	Limited ag use (5)	114	—
Curragh 2795	38	6,487	Limited ag use (6)	41	—
Gemalla 2795	35	770	Limited ag use (5)	29	$63k M
Watton 2795	33	1,738	Limited ag use (6)	36	$4k L
Milkers Flat 2795	30	1,057	Limited ag use (6)	11	$115k L
South Bathurst 2795	27	358	Limited ag use (5)	18	$33k L
Orton Park 2795	26	736	Limited ag use (5)	8	$42k L
West Bathurst 2795	22	34	Limited ag use (5)	6	—
Bathurst 2795	10	8	Limited ag use (5)	4	—
Fitzgeralds Valley 2795	9	682	Limited ag use (5)	15	—
Abercrombie 2795	8	241	Good grazing (3.5)	38	—
Stewarts Mount 2795	4	1,232	Limited ag use (5)	7	—
Llanarth 2795	3	27	Limited ag use (5)	9	—
Robin Hill 2795	2	158	Limited ag use (5)	7	—

Mining & resources

Subsurface activity nearby

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

In mining title

of rural lots

Nearest mine

42.0 km

mean across lots

Coal < 10 km

of rural lots

Nearest critical mineral

40.0 km

Land character

Geology Lachlan Orogen Wine GI Central Ranges

Nearby councils in Central West

Other rural councils in the same region.

Hilltops Council

19,431 rural lots · Good grazing

Upper Lachlan Shire Council

17,843 rural lots · Limited ag use

Mid-Western Regional Council

16,188 rural lots · Limited ag use

Dubbo Regional Council

12,290 rural lots · Good grazing

Warrumbungle Shire Council

11,903 rural lots · Good grazing

Lachlan Shire Council

10,353 rural lots · Good grazing

Cowra Shire Council

7,211 rural lots · Good grazing

Parkes Shire Council

6,726 rural lots · Good grazing

About Bathurst Regional Council

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

Across 9,966 rural lots in Bathurst Regional Council, the dominant land use is Grazing modified pastures. The typical land-capability class is Limited ag use — from the NSW DPI Land & Soil Capability v4 polygon layer.

What's the climate of Bathurst Regional Council's rural land? ▾

Rural lots in Bathurst Regional Council average 707 mm annual rainfall, mean daily max temperature 19.7°C, and 81 frost days per year. Aridity index 0.54 — drawn from BOM 30-year normals.

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

Median rural rate across Bathurst Regional Council is $340k/ha based on 170 registered RU-zoned sales in the last 5 years (high confidence).

What data sources are used? ▾

Land capability is the NSW DPI Land & Soil Capability v4 polygon layer. Carbon stock is the ESA CCI Biomass 2023 satellite product (~100m). Vegetation cover (green / forest) is DEA Fractional Cover (Sentinel-2). Climate is BOM 30-year normals from ~1,820 weather stations. Rural market is from registered NSW property sales filtered to RU-zoned lots.