8,555 rural lots across 58 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 8,555 rural lots in Cessnock City 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 Cessnock City Council intersecting each hazard or planning constraint.
Mean distances from rural lots to roads, schools, hospitals, transmission and substations across Cessnock City Council.
Registered RU-zoned sales across Cessnock City Council, last 5 years.
From ABARES Catchment Scale Land Use.
The largest-share land-use category across rural lots in Cessnock City Council.
12-month price and volume movement, rent and yield. Reflects the broader market across Cessnock City 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↓ |
|---|---|
| Ellalong 2325 | 654 |
| Millfield 2325 | 606 |
| Wollombi 2325 | 541 |
| Paxton 2325 | 445 |
| Laguna 2325 | 399 |
| North Rothbury 2335 | 356 |
| Nulkaba 2325 | 350 |
| Kitchener 2325 | 307 |
| Quorrobolong 2325 | 284 |
| Lovedale 2325 | 259 |
| Mulbring 2323 | 244 |
| Sawyers Gully 2326 | 211 |
| Cessnock 2325 | 204 |
| Black Hill 2322 | 187 |
| Mount View 2325 | 177 |
| Abernethy 2325 | 174 |
| Congewai 2325 | 165 |
| Watagan 2325 | 157 |
| Neath 2326 | 152 |
| Mount Vincent 2323 | 150 |
| Murrays Run 2325 | 145 |
| Elrington 2325 | 133 |
| Bucketty 2250 | 115 |
| Buchanan 2323 | 113 |
| Abermain 2326 | 107 |
| Brunkerville 2323 | 89 |
| Cedar Creek 2325 | 82 |
| Dairy Arm 2325 | 82 |
| Pelton 2325 | 77 |
| Rothbury 2320 | 65 |
| Bellbird 2325 | 56 |
| Keinbah 2320 | 55 |
| Kearsley 2325 | 54 |
| Sweetmans Creek 2325 | 47 |
| Fernances Crossing 2325 | 44 |
| East Branxton 2335 | 44 |
| Loxford 2327 | 42 |
| Richmond Vale 2323 | 37 |
| Buttai 2323 | 33 |
| Stockrington 2286 | 21 |
| Greta Main 2325 | 15 |
| Kurri Kurri 2327 | 15 |
| Corrabare 2325 | 9 |
| Heddon Greta 2321 | 7 |
| Pelaw Main 2327 | 6 |
| Stanford Merthyr 2327 | 5 |
| Yengo 2325 | 5 |
| Aberdare 2325 | 3 |
| Weston 2326 | 2 |
Active mining titles, coal-mine proximity and critical-mineral occurrences across Cessnock City Council.
Other rural councils in the same region.
Across 8,555 rural lots in Cessnock City 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 Cessnock City Council average 859 mm annual rainfall, mean daily max temperature 23.3°C, and 11 frost days per year. Aridity index 0.63 — drawn from BOM 30-year normals.
Median rural rate across Cessnock City Council is $3.06M/ha based on 729 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.