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Mid-North Coast

Coffs Harbour City Council

3,720 rural lots across 29 suburbs. Dominant land use: Grazing native vegetation.

3,720
Rural lots
54,244 ha
Rural land
Limited ag use
Typical capability (class 5)
400 tCO₂e/ha
Mean above-ground biomass

Coffs Harbour 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 3,720 rural lots in Coffs Harbour City Council.

Class 5 Limited ag use
Class 1–20%
Class 3–445%
Class 5–636%
Class 7–818%
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
1,626 mm
Wet
Mean max temp
23.6 °C
annual average daily max
Extreme heat days
2 / year
Cool summers
Frost days
4 / year
Frost-free
Aridity index
1.12 P/PET
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.

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

Cover profile

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

Green cover72%
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
0.8
km away
A bore is close — within walking distance for most lots.
Plan: Water Sharing Plan for the Clarence River Unregulated and Alluvial Water Sources 2016

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

Risks & constraints

Hazard exposure across rural lots

Share of rural lots in Coffs Harbour City Council intersecting each hazard or planning constraint.

Bushfire-prone 97%
Acid-sulfate soils 17%
Threatened ecological 7%
Coastal environment 6%
Heritage-listed 1%
No exposure
Flood-prone · Groundwater vulnerable · Salinity-prone · Landslide-prone · Mine subsidence · Contamination history · In mining title
Infrastructure

Access and grid connection

Mean distances from rural lots to roads, schools, hospitals, transmission and substations across Coffs Harbour City Council.

Connectivity

Roads, rail, schools

Classified road 2.4 km
Nearest school 3.2 km
Rail station 17.1 km
Energy

Grid + transmission

Substation 5.2 km · 330 kV
Transmission line 2.7 km · 330 kV
Transmission line within commercial-solar range.
Services

Health + water

Nearest hospital 17.0 km
Water treatment 7.0 km
Rural market
High confidence

Land sale activity

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

$334k
per hectare (median)
55
sales (last 5 yrs)
Land use

Dominant rural land use

From the ABARES Catchment Scale Land Use classification.

Grazing native vegetation

The largest-share land-use category across rural lots in Coffs Harbour City Council.

Market trends

Council-wide pulse

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

Price change · 12 mo
+1.5%
median price across all sales (residential + rural)
Price change · 3 mo
-0.4%
Sales volume · 12 mo
+85.1%
year-on-year change in sale count
Median weekly rent
$561
+0.8% y/y
Gross rental yield
3.60%
Days on market
48 days
15 active listings

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

Rural suburbs in Coffs Harbour City Council (28)

Click any column header to sort.

Suburb Rural lots
Upper Orara 2450 386
Bonville 2450 344
Nana Glen 2450 310
Bucca 2450 269
Coramba 2450 249
Coffs Harbour 2450 241
Woolgoolga 2456 230
Karangi 2450 218
Lowanna 2450 212
Sandy Beach 2456 161
Sapphire Beach 2450 150
Boambee 2450 141
Dirty Creek 2456 139
Halfway Creek 2460 135
Upper Corindi 2456 135
Brooklana 2450 135
Corindi Beach 2456 98
Ulong 2450 88
North Boambee Valley 2450 71
Moonee Beach 2450 36
Red Rock 2456 31
Mullaway 2456 19
Barcoongere 2460 18
Arrawarra Headland 2456 8
Emerald Beach 2456 6
Arrawarra 2456 5
Bundagen 2454 4
Korora 2450 4
Land character
Geology New England Orogen Wine region Northern Rivers

About Coffs Harbour City Council

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

Across 3,720 rural lots in Coffs Harbour City Council, the dominant land use is Grazing native vegetation. Typical land capability is limited ag use.

What's the climate of Coffs Harbour City Council's rural land?

Rural lots in Coffs Harbour City Council average 1,626 mm annual rainfall, mean daily max temperature 23.6°C, and 4 frost days per year. Aridity index 1.12.

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

The median rural rate across Coffs Harbour City Council is $334k/ha based on 55 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.