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Mid-North Coast

Bellingen Shire Council

3,131 rural lots across 27 suburbs. Dominant land use: Grazing native vegetation.

3,131
Rural lots
66,429 ha
Rural land
Limited ag use
Typical capability (class 5)
377 tCO₂e/ha
Mean above-ground biomass

Bellingen 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 3,131 rural lots in Bellingen Shire Council.

Class 5 Limited ag use
Class 1–20%
Class 3–450%
Class 5–637%
Class 7–814%
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
1,538 mm
Wet
Mean max temp
22.6 °C
annual average daily max
Extreme heat days
1 / year
Cool summers
Frost days
11 / year
Light frost
Aridity index
1.15 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.

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

Cover profile

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

Green cover75%
Forest cover41%
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
0.9
km away
A bore is close — within walking distance for most lots.
Plan: Water Sharing Plan for the Bellinger River Area Unregulated and Alluvial Water Sources 2020

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

Risks & constraints

Hazard exposure across rural lots

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

Bushfire-prone 97%
Acid-sulfate soils 22%
Threatened ecological 20%
Coastal environment 20%
Heritage-listed 4%
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 Bellingen Shire Council.

Connectivity

Roads, rail, schools

Classified road 2.2 km
Nearest school 5.6 km
Rail station 24.4 km
Energy

Grid + transmission

Substation 9.0 km · 132 kV
Transmission line 5.3 km · 330 kV
Transmission line a moderate distance — small-scale connection feasible.
Services

Health + water

Nearest hospital 8.4 km
Water treatment 6.5 km
Rural market
High confidence

Land sale activity

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

$225k
per hectare (median)
33
sales (last 5 yrs)
Land use

Dominant rural land use

From the ABARES Catchment Scale Land Use classification.

Grazing native vegetation

The largest-share land-use category across rural lots in Bellingen Shire Council.

Market trends

Council-wide pulse

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

Price change · 12 mo
+478.9%
median price across all sales (residential + rural)
Price change · 3 mo
-11.0%
Sales volume · 12 mo
+156.9%
year-on-year change in sale count
Median weekly rent
$484
+4.6% y/y
Gross rental yield
2.58%
Days on market
38 days
5 active listings

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

Rural suburbs in Bellingen Shire Council (24)

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Suburb Rural lots
Bellingen 2454 314
Gleniffer 2454 263
Deer Vale 2453 259
Dorrigo 2453 239
Raleigh 2454 237
North Dorrigo 2453 221
Megan 2453 168
Urunga 2455 167
Brierfield 2454 166
Thora 2454 152
Fernbrook 2453 105
Bostobrick 2453 98
Bielsdown Hills 2453 94
Hydes Creek 2454 88
Dorrigo Mountain 2453 83
Repton 2454 78
Cascade 2453 68
Valery 2454 64
Fernmount 2454 63
Kalang 2454 55
Tallowwood Ridge 2453 46
Brinerville 2454 3
Mylestom 2454 3
Darkwood 2454 1
Land character
Geology New England Orogen Wine region Northern Rivers

About Bellingen Shire Council

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

Across 3,131 rural lots in Bellingen Shire Council, the dominant land use is Grazing native vegetation. Typical land capability is limited ag use.

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

Rural lots in Bellingen Shire Council average 1,538 mm annual rainfall, mean daily max temperature 22.6°C, and 11 frost days per year. Aridity index 1.15.

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

The median rural rate across Bellingen Shire Council is $225k/ha based on 33 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.