3,516 rural lots across 42 suburbs. Dominant land use: Residential and farm infrastructure.
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 3,516 rural lots in Byron Shire 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 Byron Shire Council intersecting each hazard or planning constraint.
Mean distances from rural lots to roads, schools, hospitals, transmission and substations across Byron Shire Council.
Registered RU-zoned sales across Byron Shire Council, last 5 years.
From ABARES Catchment Scale Land Use.
The largest-share land-use category across rural lots in Byron Shire Council.
12-month price and volume movement, rent and yield. Reflects the broader market across Byron Shire 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↓ |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Active mining titles, coal-mine proximity and critical-mineral occurrences across Byron Shire Council.
Other rural councils in the same region.
Across 3,516 rural lots in Byron Shire Council, the dominant land use is Residential and farm infrastructure. The typical land-capability class is Limited ag use — from the NSW DPI Land & Soil Capability v4 polygon layer.
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 — drawn from BOM 30-year normals.
Median rural rate across Byron Shire Council is $780k/ha based on 105 registered RU-zoned sales in the last 5 years (high 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.