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 NSW DPI Land & Soil Capability classes across the 4,654 rural lots in Blacktown City Council.
30-year climate normals from BOM weather stations, averaged across rural lots in this council.
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).
Above-ground biomass — woody vegetation already on the land.
DEA Fractional Cover from Sentinel-2 (25m).
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 RU-zoned sales across Blacktown City Council, last 5 years.
From ABARES Catchment Scale Land Use.
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 $/ha rate above is the rural benchmark.
Trend indicators reflect the broader suburb market (rural + residential). $/ha rural rate above is the rural-only benchmark.
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↓ |
|---|---|
| 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. The typical land-capability class is Limited ag use — from the NSW DPI Land & Soil Capability v4 polygon layer.
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 — drawn from BOM 30-year normals.
Median rural rate across Blacktown City Council is $1.86M/ha based on 13 registered RU-zoned sales in the last 5 years (medium confidence).
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.