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Central West

Cowra Shire Council

7,211 rural lots across 15 suburbs. Dominant land use: Cropping.

7,211
Rural lots
259,961 ha
Rural land
Good grazing
Typical capability (class 3)
41 tCO₂e/ha
Mean above-ground biomass

Cowra Shire 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 7,211 rural lots in Cowra Shire Council.

Class 3 Good grazing
Class 1–20%
Class 3–472%
Class 5–623%
Class 7–84%
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
670 mm
Sub-humid
Mean max temp
22.4 °C
annual average daily max
Extreme heat days
18 / year
Warm summers
Frost days
55 / year
Frost-prone
Aridity index
0.45 P/PET
Semi-arid

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.

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

Cover profile

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

Green cover54%
Forest cover10%
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
0.9
km away
A bore is close — within walking distance for most lots.
Plan: Water Sharing Plan for the Lachlan Unregulated River Water Sources 2026

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

Risks & constraints

Hazard exposure across rural lots

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

Groundwater vulnerable 39%
Recharge area or shallow aquifer.
Bushfire-prone 14%
Threatened ecological 10%
Heritage-listed 1%
No exposure
Flood-prone · 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 Cowra Shire Council.

Connectivity

Roads, rail, schools

Classified road 3.5 km
Nearest school 10.0 km
Rail station 57.1 km
Energy

Grid + transmission

Substation 13.8 km · 132 kV
Transmission line 6.8 km · 132 kV
Transmission line a moderate distance — small-scale connection feasible.
Services

Health + water

Nearest hospital 17.4 km
Water treatment 14.8 km
Rural market
High confidence

Land sale activity

Registered rural-zoned sales across Cowra Shire Council, last 5 years.

$2.08M
per hectare (median)
189
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 Cowra Shire Council.

Market trends

Council-wide pulse

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

Price change · 12 mo
+33.2%
median price across all sales (residential + rural)
Price change · 3 mo
+6.1%
Sales volume · 12 mo
+49.0%
year-on-year change in sale count
Median weekly rent
$331
+10.4% y/y
Gross rental yield
3.90%
Days on market
49 days
23 active listings

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

Rural suburbs in Cowra Shire Council (12)

Click any column header to sort.

Suburb Rural lots
Cowra 2794 2,158
Canowindra 2804 1,595
Woodstock 2793 1,511
Mandurama 2792 1,211
Neville 2799 781
Gooloogong 2805 779
Lyndhurst 2797 418
Billimari 2804 265
Darbys Falls 2793 263
Wattamondara 2794 260
Garland 2797 256
Roseberg 2793 149
Mining & resources

Subsurface activity nearby

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

In mining title
0%
of rural lots
Nearest mine
115.5 km
mean across lots
Coal < 10 km
0%
of rural lots
Nearest critical mineral
38.4 km
Au
Land character
Geology Lachlan Orogen Wine region Central Ranges

About Cowra Shire Council

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

Across 7,211 rural lots in Cowra Shire Council, the dominant land use is Cropping. Typical land capability is good grazing.

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

Rural lots in Cowra Shire Council average 670 mm annual rainfall, mean daily max temperature 22.4°C, and 55 frost days per year. Aridity index 0.45.

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

The median rural rate across Cowra Shire Council is $2.08M/ha based on 189 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.