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Riverina

Federation Council

8,803 rural lots across 19 suburbs. Dominant land use: Cropping.

8,803
Rural lots
519,206 ha
Rural land
Good grazing
Typical capability (class 3)
40 tCO₂e/ha
Mean above-ground biomass

Federation 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 8,803 rural lots in Federation Council.

Class 3 Good grazing
Class 1–20%
Class 3–484%
Class 5–616%
Class 7–80%
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
470 mm
Semi-arid
Mean max temp
23.2 °C
annual average daily max
Extreme heat days
27 / year
Warm summers
Frost days
40 / year
Frost-prone
Aridity index
0.30 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.

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

Cover profile

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

Green cover34%
Forest cover4%
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
1.2
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 Federation Council intersecting each hazard or planning constraint.

Bushfire-prone 33%
Threatened ecological 22%
Groundwater vulnerable 7%
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 Federation Council.

Connectivity

Roads, rail, schools

Classified road 3.8 km
Nearest school 11.9 km
Rail station 60.9 km
Energy

Grid + transmission

Substation 29.5 km · 132 kV
Transmission line 14.1 km · 330 kV
Transmission line a moderate distance — small-scale connection feasible.
Services

Health + water

Nearest hospital 22.3 km
Water treatment 27.8 km
Rural market
High confidence

Land sale activity

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

$451k
per hectare (median)
155
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 Federation Council.

Market trends

Council-wide pulse

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

Price change · 12 mo
+367.5% ↑
median price across all sales (residential + rural)
Price change · 3 mo
+43.9% ↑
Sales volume · 12 mo
+162.7% ↑
year-on-year change in sale count
Median weekly rent
$328
+18.8% y/y
Gross rental yield
9.13%
Days on market
28 days ↑
5 active listings

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

Rural suburbs in Federation Council (13)

Click any column header to sort.

Suburb Rural lots↓
Daysdale 2646 532
Lowesdale 2646 529
Savernake 2646 506
Coreen 2646 386
Howlong 2643 386
Mulwala 2647 385
Hopefield 2646 238
Rennie 2646 205
Collendina 2646 176
Redlands 2646 159
Corowa 2646 138
Ringwood 2646 137
Sanger 2646 40
Land character
Geology Lachlan Orogen Wine region Big Rivers

Nearby councils in Riverina

Other rural councils in the same region.

Greater Hume Shire Council
14,754 rural lots · Good grazing
Snowy Valleys Council
11,557 rural lots · Limited ag use
Cootamundra-Gundagai Regional Council
11,072 rural lots · Good grazing
Murray River Council
10,629 rural lots · Good grazing
Edward River Council
9,226 rural lots · Good grazing
Wagga Wagga City Council
9,147 rural lots · Good grazing
Carrathool Shire Council
8,486 rural lots · Good grazing
Narrandera Shire Council
7,521 rural lots · Good grazing

About Federation Council

What's the dominant rural land use in Federation Council? ▾

Across 8,803 rural lots in Federation Council, the dominant land use is Cropping. Typical land capability is good grazing.

What's the climate of Federation Council's rural land? ▾

Rural lots in Federation Council average 470 mm annual rainfall, mean daily max temperature 23.2°C, and 40 frost days per year. Aridity index 0.30.

What's the rural land market like in Federation Council? ▾

The median rural rate across Federation Council is $451k/ha based on 155 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.