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Central West

Blayney Shire Council

6,417 rural lots across 20 suburbs. Dominant land use: Grazing modified pastures.

6,417
Rural lots
145,579 ha
Rural land
Good grazing
Typical capability (class 4)
19 tCO₂e/ha
Mean above-ground biomass

Blayney 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 6,417 rural lots in Blayney Shire Council.

Class 4 Good grazing
Class 1–22%
Class 3–485%
Class 5–611%
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
823 mm
Moderate rainfall
Mean max temp
19.3 °C
annual average daily max
Extreme heat days
4 / year
Cool summers
Frost days
81 / year
Frost-prone
Aridity index
0.62 P/PET
Sub-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.

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

Cover profile

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

Green cover57%
Forest cover6%
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
0.8
km away
A bore is close — within walking distance for most lots.
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 Blayney Shire Council intersecting each hazard or planning constraint.

Groundwater vulnerable 22%
Threatened ecological 14%
Heritage-listed 13%
Bushfire-prone 11%
No exposure
Flood-prone · 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 Blayney Shire Council.

Connectivity

Roads, rail, schools

Classified road 4.1 km
Nearest school 6.6 km
Rail station 17.0 km
Energy

Grid + transmission

Substation 9.1 km · 132 kV
Transmission line 6.1 km · 132 kV
Transmission line a moderate distance — small-scale connection feasible.
Services

Health + water

Nearest hospital 16.4 km
Water treatment 15.4 km
Rural market
High confidence

Land sale activity

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

$1.16M
per hectare (median)
101
sales (last 5 yrs)
Land use

Dominant rural land use

From the ABARES Catchment Scale Land Use classification.

Grazing modified pastures

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

Market trends

Council-wide pulse

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

Price change · 12 mo
+297.5%
median price across all sales (residential + rural)
Price change · 3 mo
+11.2%
Sales volume · 12 mo
+246.7%
year-on-year change in sale count
Median weekly rent
$442
-2.4% y/y
Gross rental yield
4.87%
Days on market
40 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 Blayney Shire Council (14)

Click any column header to sort.

Suburb Rural lots
Blayney 2799 732
Carcoar 2791 630
Caloola 2795 352
Newbridge 2795 337
Barry 2799 313
Hobbys Yards 2795 289
Arkell 2795 196
Panuara 2800 194
Kings Plains 2360 182
Tallwood 2789 178
Burnt Yards 2792 159
Moorilda 2795 145
Browns Creek 2799 143
Errowanbang 2791 100
Mining & resources

Subsurface activity nearby

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

In mining title
0%
of rural lots
Nearest mine
76.4 km
mean across lots
Coal < 10 km
0%
of rural lots
Nearest critical mineral
12.6 km
Cu, Au
Land character
Geology Lachlan Orogen Wine region Orange

About Blayney Shire Council

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

Across 6,417 rural lots in Blayney Shire Council, the dominant land use is Grazing modified pastures. Typical land capability is good grazing.

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

Rural lots in Blayney Shire Council average 823 mm annual rainfall, mean daily max temperature 19.3°C, and 81 frost days per year. Aridity index 0.62.

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

The median rural rate across Blayney Shire Council is $1.16M/ha based on 101 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.