6,315 rural lots across 21 suburbs. Dominant land use: Cropping.
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.
Distribution of NSW DPI Land & Soil Capability classes across the 6,315 rural lots in Forbes Shire Council.
30-year climate normals from BOM weather stations, averaged across rural lots in this council.
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).
Above-ground biomass — woody vegetation already on the land.
DEA Fractional Cover from Sentinel-2 (25m).
Water-sharing-plan coverage and bore proximity across rural lots.
Water-sharing-plan coverage and bore proximity across rural lots.
Source: NSW DCCEEW Water Sharing Plans · NSW DCCEEW Groundwater Bores Register.
Share of rural lots in Forbes Shire Council intersecting each hazard or planning constraint.
Mean distances from rural lots to roads, schools, hospitals, transmission and substations across Forbes Shire Council.
Registered RU-zoned sales across Forbes Shire Council, last 5 years.
From ABARES Catchment Scale Land Use.
The largest-share land-use category across rural lots in Forbes Shire Council.
12-month price and volume movement, rent and yield. Reflects the broader market across Forbes Shire Council; the rural-only $/ha rate above is the rural benchmark.
Trend indicators reflect the broader suburb market (rural + residential). $/ha rural rate above is the rural-only benchmark.
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↓ |
|---|---|
| Forbes 2871 | 2,554 |
| Eugowra 2806 | 1,522 |
| Bedgerabong 2871 | 386 |
| Paytens Bridge 2871 | 310 |
| Jemalong 2871 | 310 |
| Garema 2871 | 301 |
| Lake Cowal 2671 | 287 |
| Mulyandry 2871 | 209 |
| Ooma 2871 | 125 |
| Gunning Gap 2876 | 114 |
| Mulguthrie 2877 | 73 |
Active mining titles, coal-mine proximity and critical-mineral occurrences across Forbes Shire Council.
Other rural councils in the same region.
Across 6,315 rural lots in Forbes Shire Council, the dominant land use is Cropping. The typical land-capability class is Good grazing — from the NSW DPI Land & Soil Capability v4 polygon layer.
Rural lots in Forbes Shire Council average 535 mm annual rainfall, mean daily max temperature 24.2°C, and 45 frost days per year. Aridity index 0.31 — drawn from BOM 30-year normals.
Median rural rate across Forbes Shire Council is $116k/ha based on 37 registered RU-zoned sales in the last 5 years (high confidence).
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.