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 land-capability classes across the 6,315 rural lots in Forbes Shire Council.
Long-term climate averages across rural lots in this council.
Climate values are the average across rural lots in this area, drawn from Bureau of Meteorology 30-year normals.
Above-ground biomass — woody vegetation already on the land.
Digital Earth Australia Fractional Cover, from Sentinel-2 imagery.
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 rural-zoned sales across Forbes Shire Council, last 5 years.
From the ABARES Catchment Scale Land Use classification.
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 rate above is the rural benchmark.
Trend indicators reflect the broader suburb market (rural + residential). $/ha rural rate above is the rural-only benchmark.
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| 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. Typical land capability is good grazing.
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.
The median rural rate across Forbes Shire Council is $201k/ha based on 35 registered rural-zoned sales in the last 5 years.
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.