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Brewarrina Shire Council

2,209 rural lots across 12 suburbs. Dominant land use: Grazing native vegetation.

2,209
Rural lots
1.84 M ha
Rural land
Good grazing
Typical capability (class 4)
6 tCO₂e/ha
Mean above-ground biomass

Brewarrina 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 2,209 rural lots in Brewarrina Shire Council.

Class 4 Good grazing
Class 1–20%
Class 3–484%
Class 5–616%
Class 7–80%
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
399 mm
Semi-arid
Mean max temp
27.9 °C
annual average daily max
Extreme heat days
70 / year
Hot summers
Frost days
17 / year
Light frost
Aridity index
0.18 P/PET
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.

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

Cover profile

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

Green cover23%
Forest cover10%
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
6.4
km away
A bore is within easy driving — typical of farming country.
Plan: Water Sharing Plan for the Macquarie/Wambuul Bogan Unregulated Rivers 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 Brewarrina Shire Council intersecting each hazard or planning constraint.

Bushfire-prone 66%
Threatened ecological 50%
TEC mapping — clearing constraints apply.
Heritage-listed 1%
No exposure
Flood-prone · Groundwater vulnerable · 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 Brewarrina Shire Council.

Connectivity

Roads, rail, schools

Classified road 4.5 km
Nearest school 17.2 km
Rail station 227.2 km
Energy

Grid + transmission

Substation 31.1 km · 66 kV
Transmission line 28.1 km · 66 kV
Transmission line is far — energy export would need on-site storage or a feeder upgrade.
Services

Health + water

Nearest hospital 32.5 km
Water treatment 25.6 km
Rural market
High confidence

Land sale activity

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

$642k
per hectare (median)
76
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 Brewarrina Shire Council.

Market trends

Council-wide pulse

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

Price change · 12 mo
+1283.7%
median price across all sales (residential + rural)
Price change · 3 mo
+20.3%
Sales volume · 12 mo
+267.4%
year-on-year change in sale count
Median weekly rent
$220
-3.9% y/y
Gross rental yield
12.83%
Days on market
25 days
7 active listings

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

Rural suburbs in Brewarrina Shire Council (9)

Click any column header to sort.

Suburb Rural lots
Brewarrina 2839 1,032
Goodooga 2831 451
Enngonia 2840 324
Coolabah 2831 255
Gongolgon 2839 201
Weilmoringle 2839 75
Collerina 2839 54
Talawanta 2839 44
Narran Lake 2839 17
Land character
Geology Thomson Orogen Wine region Western Plains Tenure Private

About Brewarrina Shire Council

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

Across 2,209 rural lots in Brewarrina Shire Council, the dominant land use is Grazing native vegetation. Typical land capability is good grazing.

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

Rural lots in Brewarrina Shire Council average 399 mm annual rainfall, mean daily max temperature 27.9°C, and 17 frost days per year. Aridity index 0.18.

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

The median rural rate across Brewarrina Shire Council is $642k/ha based on 76 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.