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New England

Gwydir Shire Council

9,970 rural lots across 37 suburbs. Dominant land use: Grazing native vegetation.

9,970
Rural lots
896,865 ha
Rural land
Limited ag use
Typical capability (class 5)
48 tCO₂e/ha
Mean above-ground biomass

Gwydir 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 9,970 rural lots in Gwydir Shire Council.

Class 5 Limited ag use
Class 1–26%
Class 3–442%
Class 5–647%
Class 7–85%
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
700 mm
Moderate rainfall
Mean max temp
25.5 °C
annual average daily max
Extreme heat days
23 / year
Warm summers
Frost days
47 / year
Frost-prone
Aridity index
0.39 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.

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

Cover profile

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

Green cover33%
Forest cover16%
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
0.9
km away
A bore is close — within walking distance for most lots.
Plan: Water Sharing Plan for the Gwydir Unregulated River 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 Gwydir Shire Council intersecting each hazard or planning constraint.

Bushfire-prone 84%
Threatened ecological 13%
Salinity-prone 2%
No exposure
Flood-prone · Groundwater vulnerable · Heritage-listed · 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 Gwydir Shire Council.

Connectivity

Roads, rail, schools

Classified road 4.8 km
Nearest school 12.6 km
Rail station 83.6 km
Energy

Grid + transmission

Substation 15.2 km · 132 kV
Transmission line 10.1 km · 132 kV
Transmission line a moderate distance — small-scale connection feasible.
Services

Health + water

Nearest hospital 21.4 km
Water treatment 16.4 km
Rural market
High confidence

Land sale activity

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

$1.25M
per hectare (median)
526
sales (last 5 yrs)
Land use

Dominant rural land use

From the ABARES Catchment Scale Land Use classification.

Grazing native vegetation

The largest-share land-use category across rural lots in Gwydir Shire Council.

Market trends

Council-wide pulse

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

Price change · 12 mo
+353.0%
median price across all sales (residential + rural)
Price change · 3 mo
+148.0%
Sales volume · 12 mo
+164.9%
year-on-year change in sale count
Median weekly rent
$278
+18.1% y/y
Gross rental yield
4.99%
Days on market
44 days
5 active listings

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

Rural suburbs in Gwydir Shire Council (20)

Click any column header to sort.

Suburb Rural lots
Warialda 2402 2,184
Bingara 2404 1,483
Upper Horton 2347 618
Warialda Rail 2402 569
North Star 2408 514
Dinoga 2404 327
Cobbadah 2347 267
Pallal 2404 210
Gineroi 2404 206
Keera 2404 189
Boonal 2409 187
Elcombe 2404 162
Bangheet 2404 155
Whitlow 2404 145
Yallaroi 2408 129
Upper Bingara 2404 121
Crooble 2400 118
Balfours Peak 2403 75
Gundamulda 2347 57
Blue Nobby 2408 44
Land character
Geology New England Orogen Wine region Northern Slopes

About Gwydir Shire Council

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

Across 9,970 rural lots in Gwydir Shire Council, the dominant land use is Grazing native vegetation. Typical land capability is limited ag use.

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

Rural lots in Gwydir Shire Council average 700 mm annual rainfall, mean daily max temperature 25.5°C, and 47 frost days per year. Aridity index 0.39.

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

The median rural rate across Gwydir Shire Council is $1.25M/ha based on 526 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.