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Riverina

Greater Hume Shire Council

14,754 rural lots across 34 suburbs. Dominant land use: Cropping.

14,754
Rural lots
518,447 ha
Rural land
Good grazing
Typical capability (class 4)
58 tCO₂e/ha
Mean above-ground biomass

Greater Hume 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 14,754 rural lots in Greater Hume Shire Council.

Class 4 Good grazing
Class 1–20%
Class 3–470%
Class 5–621%
Class 7–88%
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
655 mm
Sub-humid
Mean max temp
21.9 °C
annual average daily max
Extreme heat days
18 / year
Warm summers
Frost days
47 / year
Frost-prone
Aridity index
0.46 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.

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

Cover profile

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

Green cover50%
Forest cover9%
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
1.0
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 Greater Hume Shire Council intersecting each hazard or planning constraint.

Bushfire-prone 82%
Threatened ecological 14%
Heritage-listed 1%
No exposure
Flood-prone · Groundwater vulnerable · 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 Greater Hume Shire Council.

Connectivity

Roads, rail, schools

Classified road 2.9 km
Nearest school 8.2 km
Rail station 23.9 km
Energy

Grid + transmission

Substation 12.5 km · 330 kV
Transmission line 9.2 km · 330 kV
Transmission line a moderate distance — small-scale connection feasible.
Services

Health + water

Nearest hospital 16.1 km
Water treatment 12.4 km
Rural market
High confidence

Land sale activity

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

$2.27M
per hectare (median)
617
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 Greater Hume Shire Council.

Market trends

Council-wide pulse

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

Price change · 12 mo
+66.2%
median price across all sales (residential + rural)
Price change · 3 mo
+320.5%
Sales volume · 12 mo
+82.0%
year-on-year change in sale count
Median weekly rent
$385
+16.3% y/y
Gross rental yield
4.54%
Days on market
68 days
4 active listings

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

Rural suburbs in Greater Hume Shire Council (27)

Click any column header to sort.

Suburb Rural lots
Holbrook 2644 2,053
Culcairn 2660 1,329
Jindera 2642 1,178
Walla Walla 2659 870
Little Billabong 2644 717
Brocklesby 2642 608
Walbundrie 2642 482
Burrumbuttock 2642 474
Balldale 2646 469
Gerogery 2642 467
Mullengandra 2644 437
Cookardinia 2650 407
Morven 2660 400
Table Top 2640 396
Talmalmo 2640 318
Woomargama 2644 304
Wymah 2640 295
Bungowannah 2640 284
Bowna 2644 267
Moorwatha 2640 260
Mountain Creek 2644 237
Wantagong 2644 235
Carabost 2650 233
Goombargana 2646 215
Lankeys Creek 2644 180
Glenellen 2642 129
Yarara 2644 45
Land character
Geology Lachlan Orogen Wine region Big Rivers

About Greater Hume Shire Council

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

Across 14,754 rural lots in Greater Hume Shire Council, the dominant land use is Cropping. Typical land capability is good grazing.

What's the climate of Greater Hume Shire Council's rural land?

Rural lots in Greater Hume Shire Council average 655 mm annual rainfall, mean daily max temperature 21.9°C, and 47 frost days per year. Aridity index 0.46.

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

The median rural rate across Greater Hume Shire Council is $2.27M/ha based on 617 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.