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Riverina

Griffith City Council

5,160 rural lots across 18 suburbs. Dominant land use: Irrigated perennial horticulture.

5,160
Rural lots
147,305 ha
Rural land
Good grazing
Typical capability (class 3)
24 tCO₂e/ha
Mean above-ground biomass

Griffith City 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 5,160 rural lots in Griffith City Council.

Class 3 Good grazing
Class 1–20%
Class 3–497%
Class 5–61%
Class 7–81%
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
409 mm
Semi-arid
Mean max temp
24.2 °C
annual average daily max
Extreme heat days
35 / year
Hot summers
Frost days
32 / year
Frost-prone
Aridity index
0.22 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.

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

Cover profile

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

Green cover39%
Forest cover2%
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
1.4
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 Griffith City Council intersecting each hazard or planning constraint.

Bushfire-prone 48%
Groundwater vulnerable 6%
Threatened ecological 4%
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 Griffith City Council.

Connectivity

Roads, rail, schools

Classified road 2.1 km
Nearest school 4.1 km
Rail station 10.5 km
Energy

Grid + transmission

Substation 10.6 km · 132 kV
Transmission line 8.0 km · 132 kV
Transmission line a moderate distance — small-scale connection feasible.
Services

Health + water

Nearest hospital 10.8 km
Water treatment 6.8 km
Rural market
High confidence

Land sale activity

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

$1.11M
per hectare (median)
110
sales (last 5 yrs)
Land use

Dominant rural land use

From the ABARES Catchment Scale Land Use classification.

Irrigated perennial horticulture

The largest-share land-use category across rural lots in Griffith City Council.

Market trends

Council-wide pulse

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

Price change · 12 mo
+28.6%
median price across all sales (residential + rural)
Price change · 3 mo
+6.9%
Sales volume · 12 mo
+32.1%
year-on-year change in sale count
Median weekly rent
$407
+2.9% y/y
Gross rental yield
3.61%
Days on market
46 days
8 active listings

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

Rural suburbs in Griffith City Council (17)

Click any column header to sort.

Suburb Rural lots
Yenda 2681 1,082
Hanwood 2680 726
Bilbul 2680 589
Yoogali 2680 529
Willbriggie 2680 361
Tharbogang 2680 356
Warrawidgee 2680 316
Tabbita 2652 287
Griffith 2680 285
Lake Wyangan 2680 260
Benerembah 2680 260
Nericon 2680 228
Myall Park 2681 215
Beelbangera 2680 180
Warburn 2680 123
Widgelli 2680 73
Kooba 2680 58
Mining & resources

Subsurface activity nearby

Active mining titles, coal-mine proximity and critical-mineral occurrences across Griffith City Council.

In mining title
0%
of rural lots
Nearest mine
8.3 km
mean across lots
Coal < 10 km
86%
of rural lots
Nearest critical mineral
71.8 km
Sn
Land character
Geology Lachlan Orogen Wine region Riverina

About Griffith City Council

What's the dominant rural land use in Griffith City Council?

Across 5,160 rural lots in Griffith City Council, the dominant land use is Irrigated perennial horticulture. Typical land capability is good grazing.

What's the climate of Griffith City Council's rural land?

Rural lots in Griffith City Council average 409 mm annual rainfall, mean daily max temperature 24.2°C, and 32 frost days per year. Aridity index 0.22.

What's the rural land market like in Griffith City Council?

The median rural rate across Griffith City Council is $1.11M/ha based on 110 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.