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Riverina

Cootamundra-Gundagai Regional Council

11,072 rural lots across 17 suburbs. Dominant land use: Cropping.

11,072
Rural lots
374,695 ha
Rural land
Good grazing
Typical capability (class 4)
32 tCO₂e/ha
Mean above-ground biomass

Cootamundra-Gundagai Regional 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 11,072 rural lots in Cootamundra-Gundagai Regional Council.

Class 4 Good grazing
Class 1–20%
Class 3–458%
Class 5–632%
Class 7–89%
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
690 mm
Sub-humid
Mean max temp
21.6 °C
annual average daily max
Extreme heat days
15 / year
Warm summers
Frost days
68 / year
Frost-prone
Aridity index
0.50 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.

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

Cover profile

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

Green cover61%
Forest cover6%
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 Murrumbidgee Unregulated River Water Sources 2025

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

Risks & constraints

Hazard exposure across rural lots

Share of rural lots in Cootamundra-Gundagai Regional Council intersecting each hazard or planning constraint.

Bushfire-prone 96%
Groundwater vulnerable 15%
Threatened ecological 13%
Salinity-prone 8%
Heritage-listed 1%
No exposure
Flood-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 Cootamundra-Gundagai Regional Council.

Connectivity

Roads, rail, schools

Classified road 3.8 km
Nearest school 9.8 km
Rail station 23.6 km
Energy

Grid + transmission

Substation 12.3 km · 132 kV
Transmission line 5.8 km · 330 kV
Transmission line a moderate distance — small-scale connection feasible.
Services

Health + water

Nearest hospital 15.7 km
Water treatment 14.3 km
Rural market
High confidence

Land sale activity

Registered rural-zoned sales across Cootamundra-Gundagai Regional Council, last 5 years.

$176k
per hectare (median)
45
sales (last 5 yrs)
Land use

Dominant rural land use

From the ABARES Catchment Scale Land Use classification.

Cropping

The largest-share land-use category across rural lots in Cootamundra-Gundagai Regional Council.

Market trends

Council-wide pulse

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

Price change · 12 mo
+428.0%
median price across all sales (residential + rural)
Price change · 3 mo
+13.8%
Sales volume · 12 mo
+209.6%
year-on-year change in sale count
Median weekly rent
$384
+24.2% y/y
Gross rental yield
4.36%
Days on market
38 days
12 active listings

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

Rural suburbs in Cootamundra-Gundagai Regional Council (14)

Click any column header to sort.

Suburb Rural lots
Cootamundra 2590 2,647
Coolac 2727 1,238
Wallendbeen 2588 910
South Gundagai 2722 899
Burra Creek 2722 576
Nangus 2722 571
Adjungbilly 2727 560
Tumblong 2729 509
Muttama 2722 445
Gundagai 2722 413
Mundarlo 2729 364
Reno 2722 319
Gobarralong 2727 308
Darbalara 2722 261
Mining & resources

Subsurface activity nearby

Active mining titles, coal-mine proximity and critical-mineral occurrences across Cootamundra-Gundagai Regional Council.

In mining title
0%
of rural lots
Nearest mine
139.1 km
mean across lots
Coal < 10 km
0%
of rural lots
Nearest critical mineral
48.0 km
Au
Land character
Geology Lachlan Orogen Wine region Gundagai

About Cootamundra-Gundagai Regional Council

What's the dominant rural land use in Cootamundra-Gundagai Regional Council?

Across 11,072 rural lots in Cootamundra-Gundagai Regional Council, the dominant land use is Cropping. Typical land capability is good grazing.

What's the climate of Cootamundra-Gundagai Regional Council's rural land?

Rural lots in Cootamundra-Gundagai Regional Council average 690 mm annual rainfall, mean daily max temperature 21.6°C, and 68 frost days per year. Aridity index 0.50.

What's the rural land market like in Cootamundra-Gundagai Regional Council?

The median rural rate across Cootamundra-Gundagai Regional Council is $176k/ha based on 45 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.