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 land-capability classes across the 8,555 rural lots in Cessnock City Council.
Long-term climate averages across rural lots in this council.
Climate values are the average across rural lots in this area, drawn from Bureau of Meteorology 30-year normals.
Above-ground biomass — woody vegetation already on the land.
Digital Earth Australia Fractional Cover, from Sentinel-2 imagery.
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 rural-zoned sales across Cessnock City Council, last 5 years.
From the ABARES Catchment Scale Land Use classification.
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 rate above is the rural benchmark.
Trend indicators reflect the broader suburb market (rural + residential). $/ha rural rate above is the rural-only benchmark.
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| 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. Typical land capability is limited ag use.
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.
The median rural rate across Cessnock City Council is $4.46M/ha based on 684 registered rural-zoned sales in the last 5 years.
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.