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Northern Rivers

Byron Shire Council

3,516 rural lots across 42 suburbs. Dominant land use: Residential and farm infrastructure.

3,516
Rural lots
34,034 ha
Rural land
Limited ag use
Typical capability (class 6)
n/a
Carbon not mapped here

Byron 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 3,516 rural lots in Byron Shire Council.

Class 6 Limited ag use
Class 1–20%
Class 3–442%
Class 5–643%
Class 7–815%
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
1,437 mm
Wet
Mean max temp
24.8 °C
annual average daily max
Extreme heat days
4 / year
Cool summers
Frost days
2 / year
Frost-free
Aridity index
0.96 P/PET
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.

Above-ground biomass is not mapped across this council's rural lots — typical of small coastal or inner-urban councils outside the satellite biomass product's coverage.
Vegetation

Cover profile

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

Green cover75%
Forest cover24%
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
0.4
km away
Bore on or beside the property is typical.
Plan: Water Sharing Plan for the Richmond River Area Unregulated, Regulated and Alluvial Water Sources 2023

Source: NSW DCCEEW Water Sharing Plans · NSW DCCEEW Groundwater Bores Register.

Risks & constraints

Hazard exposure across rural lots

Share of rural lots in Byron Shire Council intersecting each hazard or planning constraint.

Bushfire-prone 99%
Threatened ecological 32%
TEC mapping — clearing constraints apply.
Coastal environment 10%
Acid-sulfate soils 8%
Heritage-listed 2%
No exposure
Flood-prone · Groundwater vulnerable · Salinity-prone · Landslide-prone · Mine subsidence · Contamination history · In mining title
Infrastructure

Access and grid connection

Mean distances from rural lots to roads, schools, hospitals, transmission and substations across Byron Shire Council.

Connectivity

Roads, rail, schools

Classified road 3.6 km
Nearest school 2.9 km
Rail station 47.8 km
Energy

Grid + transmission

Substation 6.7 km · 132 kV
Transmission line 4.7 km · 132 kV
Transmission line within commercial-solar range.
Services

Health + water

Nearest hospital 8.6 km
Water treatment 5.1 km
Rural market
High confidence

Land sale activity

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

$949k
per hectare (median)
99
sales (last 5 yrs)
Land use

Dominant rural land use

From the ABARES Catchment Scale Land Use classification.

Residential and farm infrastructure

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

Market trends

Council-wide pulse

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

Price change · 12 mo
+3486.9%
median price across all sales (residential + rural)
Price change · 3 mo
+28.6%
Sales volume · 12 mo
+110.5%
year-on-year change in sale count
Median weekly rent
$747
+10.6% y/y
Gross rental yield
2.44%
Days on market
39 days
6 active listings

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

Rural suburbs in Byron Shire Council (39)

Click any column header to sort.

Suburb Rural lots
Federal 2480 271
Bangalow 2479 269
Main Arm 2482 208
Mullumbimby 2482 205
Eureka 2480 189
Myocum 2481 179
Coorabell 2479 171
Goonengerry 2482 130
Ewingsdale 2481 123
Mullumbimby Creek 2482 119
Wilsons Creek 2482 117
Broken Head 2481 117
Nashua 2479 116
Billinudgel 2483 109
The Pocket 2483 101
Coopers Shoot 2479 100
Binna Burra 2479 92
Tyagarah 2481 86
Possum Creek 2479 83
Newrybar 2479 68
Brunswick Heads 2483 61
Upper Main Arm 2482 57
Middle Pocket 2483 57
Talofa 2479 56
Byron Bay 2481 50
Skinners Shoot 2481 40
Huonbrook 2482 40
Yelgun 2483 35
Upper Coopers Creek 2480 34
Ocean Shores 2483 24
Upper Wilsons Creek 2482 23
Palmwoods 2482 23
Montecollum 2482 19
Wanganui 2482 17
McLeods Shoot 2481 15
Hayters Hill 2481 10
Suffolk Park 2481 9
New Brighton 2483 7
South Golden Beach 2483 1
Mining & resources

Subsurface activity nearby

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

In mining title
0%
of rural lots
Nearest mine
27.1 km
mean across lots
Coal < 10 km
0%
of rural lots
Nearest critical mineral
138.1 km
Cu, Au (Ag, Zn, Pb, Co)
Land character
Geology New England Orogen Wine region Northern Rivers

About Byron Shire Council

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

Across 3,516 rural lots in Byron Shire Council, the dominant land use is Residential and farm infrastructure. Typical land capability is limited ag use.

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

Rural lots in Byron Shire Council average 1,437 mm annual rainfall, mean daily max temperature 24.8°C, and 2 frost days per year. Aridity index 0.96.

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

The median rural rate across Byron Shire Council is $949k/ha based on 99 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.