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Hunter

Cessnock City Council

8,555 rural lots across 58 suburbs. Dominant land use: Residential and farm infrastructure.

8,555
Rural lots
110,238 ha
Rural land
Limited ag use
Typical capability (class 5)
199 tCO₂e/ha
Mean above-ground biomass

Cessnock City 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 8,555 rural lots in Cessnock City Council.

Class 5 Limited ag use
Class 1–20%
Class 3–421%
Class 5–664%
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
859 mm
Moderate rainfall
Mean max temp
23.3 °C
annual average daily max
Extreme heat days
13 / year
Mild summers
Frost days
11 / year
Light frost
Aridity index
0.63 P/PET
Sub-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.

199 tCO₂e/ha
mean across rural lots
21.91 M tCO₂e
total estimated
Satellite above-ground biomass, summarised per lot.
Vegetation

Cover profile

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

Green cover57%
Forest cover38%
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
1.4
km away
A bore is close — within walking distance for most lots.
Plan: Water Sharing Plan for the Hunter 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 Cessnock City Council intersecting each hazard or planning constraint.

Bushfire-prone 87%
Threatened ecological 26%
TEC mapping — clearing constraints apply.
Mine subsidence 10%
Heritage-listed 4%
No exposure
Flood-prone · Groundwater vulnerable · Salinity-prone · Landslide-prone · 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 Cessnock City Council.

Connectivity

Roads, rail, schools

Classified road 2.1 km
Nearest school 3.6 km
Rail station 19.3 km
Energy

Grid + transmission

Substation 7.8 km · 330 kV
Transmission line 9.7 km · 500 kV
Transmission line a moderate distance — small-scale connection feasible.
Services

Health + water

Nearest hospital 12.2 km
Water treatment 7.3 km
Rural market
High confidence

Land sale activity

Registered rural-zoned sales across Cessnock City Council, last 5 years.

$4.46M
per hectare (median)
684
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 Cessnock City Council.

Market trends

Council-wide pulse

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

Price change · 12 mo
+64.6%
median price across all sales (residential + rural)
Price change · 3 mo
+55.4%
Sales volume · 12 mo
+126.6%
year-on-year change in sale count
Median weekly rent
$501
+11.6% y/y
Gross rental yield
3.09%
Days on market
46 days
9 active listings

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

Rural suburbs in Cessnock City Council (49)

Click any column header to sort.

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
Mining & resources

Subsurface activity nearby

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

In mining title
0%
of rural lots
Nearest mine
9.1 km
mean across lots
Coal < 10 km
66%
of rural lots
Nearest critical mineral
201.1 km
Au, (Ag, Fe)
Land character
Geology New England Orogen Wine region Hunter

About Cessnock City Council

What's the dominant rural land use in Cessnock City Council?

Across 8,555 rural lots in Cessnock City Council, the dominant land use is Residential and farm infrastructure. Typical land capability is limited ag use.

What's the climate of Cessnock City Council's rural land?

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.

What's the rural land market like in Cessnock City Council?

The median rural rate across Cessnock City Council is $4.46M/ha based on 684 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.