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Greater Sydney

Camden Council

1,503 rural lots across 20 suburbs. Dominant land use: Residential and farm infrastructure.

1,503
Rural lots
13,712 ha
Rural land
Good grazing
Typical capability (LSC class 4)
50 tCO₂e/ha
Mean above-ground biomass

Camden Council — rural suburbs

© NSW Government · DEA · CSIRO TERN

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 NSW DPI Land & Soil Capability classes across the 1,503 rural lots in Camden Council.

Class 4 Good grazing
Class 1–20%
Class 3–451%
Class 5–646%
Class 7–82%
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

30-year climate normals from BOM weather stations, averaged across rural lots in this council.

Annual rainfall
737 mm
Moderate rainfall
Mean max temp
23.6 °C
annual average daily max
Extreme heat days
13 / year
Mild summers
Frost days
16 / year
Light frost
Aridity index
0.51 P/PET
Sub-humid

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).

Carbon

Carbon profile

Above-ground biomass — woody vegetation already on the land.

50 tCO₂e/ha
mean across rural lots
486,268 tCO₂e
total estimated
ESA CCI Biomass 2023, ~100m raster.
Vegetation

Cover profile

DEA Fractional Cover from Sentinel-2 (25m).

Green cover52%
Forest cover18%
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
1.2
km away
A bore is close — within walking distance for most lots.
Plan: Water Sharing Plan for the Greater Metropolitan Region Unregulated River 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 Camden Council intersecting each hazard or planning constraint.

Bushfire-prone 81%
Threatened ecological 27%
TEC mapping — clearing constraints apply.
Flood-prone 17%
Heritage-listed 2%
No exposure
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 Camden Council.

Connectivity

Roads, rail, schools

Classified road 1.6 km
Nearest school 2.0 km
Rail station 5.4 km
Energy

Grid + transmission

Substation 2.6 km · 330 kV
Transmission line 1.8 km · 330 kV
Transmission line on-doorstep — viable for utility-scale solar.
Services

Health + water

Nearest hospital 8.7 km
Water treatment 3.5 km
Rural market
High confidence

Land sale activity

Registered RU-zoned sales across Camden Council, last 5 years.

$1.28M
per hectare (median)
49
sales (last 5 yrs)
Land use

Dominant rural land use

From ABARES Catchment Scale Land Use.

Residential and farm infrastructure

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

Market trends

Council-wide pulse

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

Price change · 12 mo
+25.8%
median price across all sales (residential + rural)
Price change · 3 mo
+11.4%
Sales volume · 12 mo
+9.7%
year-on-year change in sale count
Median weekly rent
$704
+7.5% y/y
Gross rental yield
2.89%
Days on market
49 days
36 active listings

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

Rural suburbs in Camden Council (15)

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
Catherine Field 2557 294
Cobbitty 2570 210
Kirkham 2570 76
Grasmere 2570 40
Camden 2570 38
Bickley Vale 2570 25
Ellis Lane 2570 14
Currans Hill 2567 8
Gledswood Hills 2557 4
Narellan 2567 4
Oran Park 2570 3
Camden South 2570 3
Spring Farm 2570 2
Mount Annan 2567 2
Gregory Hills 2557 1
Mining & resources

Subsurface activity nearby

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

In mining title
0%
of rural lots
Nearest mine
10.5 km
mean across lots
Coal < 10 km
40%
of rural lots
Nearest critical mineral
108.4 km
Au, (Ag, Fe)
Land character
Geology Lachlan Orogen Wine GI South Coast

About Camden Council

What's the dominant rural land use in Camden Council?

Across 1,503 rural lots in Camden Council, the dominant land use is Residential and farm infrastructure. The typical land-capability class is Good grazing — from the NSW DPI Land & Soil Capability v4 polygon layer.

What's the climate of Camden Council's rural land?

Rural lots in Camden Council average 737 mm annual rainfall, mean daily max temperature 23.6°C, and 16 frost days per year. Aridity index 0.51 — drawn from BOM 30-year normals.

What's the rural land market like in Camden Council?

Median rural rate across Camden Council is $1.28M/ha based on 49 registered RU-zoned sales in the last 5 years (high confidence).

What data sources are used?

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.