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Central Coast

Central Coast Council

2,716 rural lots across 36 suburbs. Dominant land use: Grazing modified pastures.

2,716
Rural lots
36,470 ha
Rural land
Good grazing
Typical capability (LSC class 4)
153 tCO₂e/ha
Mean above-ground biomass

Central Coast 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 2,716 rural lots in Central Coast Council.

Class 4 Good grazing
Class 1–20%
Class 3–471%
Class 5–622%
Class 7–87%
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
1,157 mm
Wet
Mean max temp
22.5 °C
annual average daily max
Extreme heat days
7 / year
Mild summers
Frost days
2 / year
Frost-free
Aridity index
0.84 P/PET
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.

153 tCO₂e/ha
mean across rural lots
5.68 M tCO₂e
total estimated
ESA CCI Biomass 2023, ~100m raster.
Vegetation

Cover profile

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

Green cover67%
Forest cover47%
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
0.5
km away
A bore is close — within walking distance for most lots.
Plan: Water Sharing Plan for the Central Coast Unregulated and Alluvial Water Sources 2022

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

Risks & constraints

Hazard exposure across rural lots

Share of rural lots in Central Coast Council intersecting each hazard or planning constraint.

Bushfire-prone 96%
Mine subsidence 24%
Threatened ecological 19%
Acid-sulfate soils 13%
Coastal environment 4%
Heritage-listed 2%
No exposure
Flood-prone · Groundwater vulnerable · Salinity-prone · Landslide-prone · Contamination history · In mining title
Infrastructure

Access and grid connection

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

Connectivity

Roads, rail, schools

Classified road 2.2 km
Nearest school 3.7 km
Rail station 10.0 km
Energy

Grid + transmission

Substation 9.3 km · 330 kV
Transmission line 1.3 km · 500 kV
Transmission line on-doorstep — viable for utility-scale solar.
Services

Health + water

Nearest hospital 13.4 km
Water treatment 11.2 km
Rural market
High confidence

Land sale activity

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

$405k
per hectare (median)
62
sales (last 5 yrs)
Land use

Dominant rural land use

From ABARES Catchment Scale Land Use.

Grazing modified pastures

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

Market trends

Council-wide pulse

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

Price change · 12 mo
+75.3%
median price across all sales (residential + rural)
Price change · 3 mo
+12.0%
Sales volume · 12 mo
+105.5%
year-on-year change in sale count
Median weekly rent
$561
+9.6% y/y
Gross rental yield
2.07%
Days on market
37 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 Central Coast Council (35)

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
Somersby 2250 351
Mangrove Mountain 2250 271
Kulnura 2250 256
Jilliby 2259 186
Wyong Creek 2259 159
Yarramalong 2259 153
Wallarah 2259 125
Peats Ridge 2250 119
Dooralong 2259 118
Ourimbah 2258 108
Central Mangrove 2250 103
Woongarrah 2259 86
Calga 2250 59
Mount White 2250 56
Palmdale 2258 56
Ravensdale 2259 51
Doyalson 2262 49
Doyalson North 2262 46
Kangy Angy 2258 42
Mardi 2259 34
Kanwal 2259 30
Lemon Tree 2259 30
Cedar Brush Creek 2259 27
Durren Durren 2259 26
Charmhaven 2263 25
Spencer 2775 21
Kiar 2259 20
Little Jilliby 2259 19
Palm Grove 2258 14
Kingfisher Shores 2259 13
Wyongah 2259 12
Lake Munmorah 2259 11
Wadalba 2259 6
Narara 2250 2
Glenworth Valley 2250 1
Mining & resources

Subsurface activity nearby

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

In mining title
0%
of rural lots
Nearest mine
12.6 km
mean across lots
Coal < 10 km
42%
of rural lots
Nearest critical mineral
176.8 km
Au, (Ag, Fe)
Land character
Geology Lachlan Orogen Wine GI South Coast

About Central Coast Council

What's the dominant rural land use in Central Coast Council?

Across 2,716 rural lots in Central Coast Council, the dominant land use is Grazing modified pastures. The typical land-capability class is Good grazing — from the NSW DPI Land & Soil Capability v4 polygon layer.

What's the climate of Central Coast Council's rural land?

Rural lots in Central Coast Council average 1,157 mm annual rainfall, mean daily max temperature 22.5°C, and 2 frost days per year. Aridity index 0.84 — drawn from BOM 30-year normals.

What's the rural land market like in Central Coast Council?

Median rural rate across Central Coast Council is $405k/ha based on 62 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.