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New England

Gunnedah Shire Council

6,876 rural lots across 24 suburbs. Dominant land use: Cropping.

6,876
Rural lots
463,496 ha
Rural land
Good grazing
Typical capability (class 3)
25 tCO₂e/ha
Mean above-ground biomass

Gunnedah 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 6,876 rural lots in Gunnedah Shire Council.

Class 3 Good grazing
Class 1–225%
Class 3–460%
Class 5–611%
Class 7–82%
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
630 mm
Sub-humid
Mean max temp
25.3 °C
annual average daily max
Extreme heat days
28 / year
Warm summers
Frost days
38 / year
Frost-prone
Aridity index
0.36 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.

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

Cover profile

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

Green cover31%
Forest cover5%
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
0.6
km away
A bore is close — within walking distance for most lots.
Plan: Water Sharing Plan for the Namoi and Peel Unregulated Rivers Water Sources 2026

Source: NSW DCCEEW Water Sharing Plans · NSW DCCEEW Groundwater Bores Register.

Risks & constraints

Hazard exposure across rural lots

Share of rural lots in Gunnedah Shire Council intersecting each hazard or planning constraint.

Bushfire-prone 89%
Threatened ecological 12%
Groundwater vulnerable 1%
Mine subsidence 1%
No exposure
Flood-prone · Heritage-listed · Salinity-prone · Landslide-prone · 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 Gunnedah Shire Council.

Connectivity

Roads, rail, schools

Classified road 4.5 km
Nearest school 10.9 km
Rail station 22.3 km
Energy

Grid + transmission

Substation 19.2 km · 132 kV
Transmission line 15.3 km · 132 kV
Transmission line is far — energy export would need on-site storage or a feeder upgrade.
Services

Health + water

Nearest hospital 22.2 km
Water treatment 21.7 km
Rural market
High confidence

Land sale activity

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

$1.42M
per hectare (median)
184
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 Gunnedah Shire Council.

Market trends

Council-wide pulse

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

Price change · 12 mo
+459.5%
median price across all sales (residential + rural)
Price change · 3 mo
+28.2%
Sales volume · 12 mo
+111.2%
year-on-year change in sale count
Median weekly rent
$409
+18.7% y/y
Gross rental yield
6.31%
Days on market
39 days
14 active listings

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

Rural suburbs in Gunnedah Shire Council (12)

Click any column header to sort.

Suburb Rural lots
Gunnedah 2380 1,067
Carroll 2340 694
Mullaley 2379 461
Kelvin 2380 458
Emerald Hill 2380 314
Blue Vale 2380 222
Milroy 2380 184
Keepit 2340 162
Orange Grove 2256 160
Ghoolendaadi 2380 120
Rangari 2380 119
Marys Mount 2580 114
Mining & resources

Subsurface activity nearby

Active mining titles, coal-mine proximity and critical-mineral occurrences across Gunnedah Shire Council.

In mining title
0%
of rural lots
Nearest mine
16.2 km
mean across lots
Coal < 10 km
35%
of rural lots
Nearest critical mineral
165.6 km
Au, (W, WO3, Sb)
Land character
Geology Lachlan Orogen Wine region Northern Slopes

About Gunnedah Shire Council

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

Across 6,876 rural lots in Gunnedah Shire Council, the dominant land use is Cropping. Typical land capability is good grazing.

What's the climate of Gunnedah Shire Council's rural land?

Rural lots in Gunnedah Shire Council average 630 mm annual rainfall, mean daily max temperature 25.3°C, and 38 frost days per year. Aridity index 0.36.

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

The median rural rate across Gunnedah Shire Council is $1.42M/ha based on 184 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.