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Bland Shire Council

7,697 rural lots across 24 suburbs. Dominant land use: Cropping.

7,697
Rural lots
828,326 ha
Rural land
Good grazing
Typical capability (class 3)
10 tCO₂e/ha
Mean above-ground biomass

Bland 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 7,697 rural lots in Bland Shire Council.

Class 3 Good grazing
Class 1–20%
Class 3–493%
Class 5–66%
Class 7–81%
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
471 mm
Semi-arid
Mean max temp
23.9 °C
annual average daily max
Extreme heat days
33 / year
Hot summers
Frost days
39 / year
Frost-prone
Aridity index
0.27 P/PET
Semi-arid

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.

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

Cover profile

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

Green cover31%
Forest cover9%
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
3.4
km away
A bore is within easy driving — typical of farming country.
Plan: Water Sharing Plan for the Lachlan Unregulated River 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 Bland Shire Council intersecting each hazard or planning constraint.

Bushfire-prone 91%
Threatened ecological 15%
Groundwater vulnerable 3%
No exposure
Flood-prone · Heritage-listed · 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 Bland Shire Council.

Connectivity

Roads, rail, schools

Classified road 6.2 km
Nearest school 11.6 km
Rail station 74.2 km
Energy

Grid + transmission

Substation 20.6 km · 132 kV
Transmission line 13.5 km · 132 kV
Transmission line a moderate distance — small-scale connection feasible.
Services

Health + water

Nearest hospital 32.2 km
Water treatment 29.5 km
Rural market
High confidence

Land sale activity

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

$1.98M
per hectare (median)
219
sales (last 5 yrs)
Land use

Dominant rural land use

From the ABARES Catchment Scale Land Use classification.

Cropping

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

Market trends

Council-wide pulse

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

Price change · 12 mo
+949.4%
median price across all sales (residential + rural)
Price change · 3 mo
+190.2%
Sales volume · 12 mo
+124.8%
year-on-year change in sale count
Median weekly rent
$263
+27.5% y/y
Gross rental yield
6.98%
Days on market
35 days
4 active listings

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

Rural suburbs in Bland Shire Council (11)

Click any column header to sort.

Suburb Rural lots
Wyalong 2671 738
Tallimba 2669 596
West Wyalong 2671 582
Weethalle 2669 510
Kikoira 2669 384
North Yalgogrin 2671 374
Girral 2669 330
Back Creek 2480 323
Bland 2721 268
Alleena 2671 213
Mirrool 2665 192
Mining & resources

Subsurface activity nearby

Active mining titles, coal-mine proximity and critical-mineral occurrences across Bland Shire Council.

In mining title
0%
of rural lots
Nearest mine
90.8 km
mean across lots
Coal < 10 km
0%
of rural lots
Nearest critical mineral
36.5 km
Sn
Land character
Geology Lachlan Orogen Wine region Riverina

About Bland Shire Council

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

Across 7,697 rural lots in Bland Shire Council, the dominant land use is Cropping. Typical land capability is good grazing.

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

Rural lots in Bland Shire Council average 471 mm annual rainfall, mean daily max temperature 23.9°C, and 39 frost days per year. Aridity index 0.27.

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

The median rural rate across Bland Shire Council is $1.98M/ha based on 219 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.