4,654 rural lots across 8 suburbs. Dominant land use: Grazing native vegetation.
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.
Distribution of land-capability classes across the 4,654 rural lots in Blacktown City Council.
Long-term climate averages across rural lots in this council.
Climate values are the average across rural lots in this area, drawn from Bureau of Meteorology 30-year normals.
Above-ground biomass — woody vegetation already on the land.
Digital Earth Australia Fractional Cover, from Sentinel-2 imagery.
Water-sharing-plan coverage and bore proximity across rural lots.
Water-sharing-plan coverage and bore proximity across rural lots.
Source: NSW DCCEEW Water Sharing Plans · NSW DCCEEW Groundwater Bores Register.
Share of rural lots in Blacktown City Council intersecting each hazard or planning constraint.
Mean distances from rural lots to roads, schools, hospitals, transmission and substations across Blacktown City Council.
Registered rural-zoned sales across Blacktown City Council, last 5 years.
From the ABARES Catchment Scale Land Use classification.
The largest-share land-use category across rural lots in Blacktown City Council.
12-month price and volume movement, rent and yield. Reflects the broader market across Blacktown City Council; the rural-only rate above is the rural benchmark.
Trend indicators reflect the broader suburb market (rural + residential). $/ha rural rate above is the rural-only benchmark.
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| Suburb | Rural lots↓ |
|---|---|
| Angus 2765 | 2,627 |
| Schofields 2762 | 829 |
| Riverstone 2765 | 647 |
| Marsden Park 2765 | 409 |
| Shanes Park 2747 | 135 |
| Colebee 2761 | 3 |
| Prospect 2148 | 3 |
Active mining titles, coal-mine proximity and critical-mineral occurrences across Blacktown City Council.
Other rural councils in the same region.
Across 4,654 rural lots in Blacktown City Council, the dominant land use is Grazing native vegetation. Typical land capability is limited ag use.
Rural lots in Blacktown City Council average 743 mm annual rainfall, mean daily max temperature 24.3°C, and 12 frost days per year. Aridity index 0.51.
The median rural rate across Blacktown City Council is $2.69M/ha based on 13 registered rural-zoned sales in the last 5 years.
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.