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Cobar Shire Council

3,559 rural lots across 18 suburbs. Dominant land use: Grazing native vegetation.

3,559
Rural lots
5.92 M ha
Rural land
Limited ag use
Typical capability (LSC class 6)
12 tCO₂e/ha
Mean above-ground biomass

Cobar Shire 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 3,559 rural lots in Cobar Shire Council.

Class 6 Limited ag use
Class 1–20%
Class 3–424%
Class 5–671%
Class 7–86%
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
399 mm
Semi-arid
Mean max temp
25.6 °C
annual average daily max
Extreme heat days
48 / year
Hot summers
Frost days
25 / year
Light frost
Aridity index
0.19 P/PET
Arid

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.

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

Cover profile

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

Green cover28%
Forest cover20%
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
4.9
km away
A bore is within easy driving — typical of farming country.
Plan: Water Sharing Plan for the Intersecting Streams Unregulated River Water Sources 2024

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

Risks & constraints

Hazard exposure across rural lots

Share of rural lots in Cobar Shire Council intersecting each hazard or planning constraint.

Bushfire-prone 15%
Threatened ecological 11%
Groundwater vulnerable 3%
No exposure
Flood-prone · Heritage-listed · 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 Cobar Shire Council.

Connectivity

Roads, rail, schools

Classified road 4.8 km
Nearest school 43.2 km
Rail station 120.4 km
Energy

Grid + transmission

Substation 39.4 km · 132 kV
Transmission line 37.2 km · 132 kV
Transmission line is far — energy export would need on-site storage or a feeder upgrade.
Services

Health + water

Nearest hospital 53.0 km
Water treatment 34.4 km
Rural market
Medium confidence

Land sale activity

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

$1.04M
per hectare (median)
15
sales (last 5 yrs)
Land use

Dominant rural land use

From ABARES Catchment Scale Land Use.

Grazing native vegetation

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

Market trends

Council-wide pulse

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

Price change · 12 mo
+46.5%
median price across all sales (residential + rural)
Price change · 3 mo
+228.2%
Sales volume · 12 mo
+300.6%
year-on-year change in sale count
Median weekly rent
$289
+19.2% y/y
Gross rental yield
14.81%
Days on market
34 days
7 active listings

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

Rural suburbs in Cobar Shire Council (16)

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
Nymagee 2831 820
Canbelego 2835 630
Cobar 2835 520
Byrock 2831 385
Mount Hope 2877 272
Tindarey 2835 211
Tilpa 2840 170
Euabalong West 2877 72
Eremerang 2877 67
Kerrigundi 2835 66
Noona 2835 64
Kulwin 2835 51
Cubba 2835 38
Gilgunnia 2877 37
Bulla 2835 29
Irymple 2835 10
Mining & resources

Subsurface activity nearby

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

In mining title
0%
of rural lots
Nearest mine
238.0 km
mean across lots
Coal < 10 km
0%
of rural lots
Nearest critical mineral
48.5 km
Cu, Zn, Pb (Ag)
Land character
Geology Lachlan Orogen Wine GI Western Plains

About Cobar Shire Council

What's the dominant rural land use in Cobar Shire Council?

Across 3,559 rural lots in Cobar Shire Council, the dominant land use is Grazing native vegetation. The typical land-capability class is Limited ag use — from the NSW DPI Land & Soil Capability v4 polygon layer.

What's the climate of Cobar Shire Council's rural land?

Rural lots in Cobar Shire Council average 399 mm annual rainfall, mean daily max temperature 25.6°C, and 25 frost days per year. Aridity index 0.19 — drawn from BOM 30-year normals.

What's the rural land market like in Cobar Shire Council?

Median rural rate across Cobar Shire Council is $1.04M/ha based on 15 registered RU-zoned sales in the last 5 years (medium 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.