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Greater Sydney

Hawkesbury City Council

9,459 rural lots across 50 suburbs. Dominant land use: Residential and farm infrastructure.

9,459
Rural lots
42,319 ha
Rural land
Limited ag use
Typical capability (class 5)
160 tCO₂e/ha
Mean above-ground biomass

Hawkesbury 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 9,459 rural lots in Hawkesbury City Council.

Class 5 Limited ag use
Class 1–20%
Class 3–434%
Class 5–647%
Class 7–819%
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
892 mm
Moderate rainfall
Mean max temp
23.6 °C
annual average daily max
Extreme heat days
15 / year
Warm summers
Frost days
17 / year
Light frost
Aridity index
0.63 P/PET
Sub-humid

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.

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

Cover profile

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

Green cover58%
Forest cover37%
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
0.4
km away
Bore on or beside the property is typical.
Plan: Water Sharing Plan for the Greater Metropolitan Region Unregulated River Water Sources 2023

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

Risks & constraints

Hazard exposure across rural lots

Share of rural lots in Hawkesbury City Council intersecting each hazard or planning constraint.

Acid-sulfate soils 94%
Bushfire-prone 92%
Threatened ecological 27%
TEC mapping — clearing constraints apply.
Coastal environment 10%
Heritage-listed 2%
Flood-prone 1%
No exposure
Groundwater vulnerable · Salinity-prone · Landslide-prone · Mine subsidence · Contamination history · In mining title
Infrastructure

Access and grid connection

Mean distances from rural lots to roads, schools, hospitals, transmission and substations across Hawkesbury City Council.

Connectivity

Roads, rail, schools

Classified road 893 m
Nearest school 2.2 km
Rail station 9.9 km
Energy

Grid + transmission

Substation 11.3 km · 330 kV
Transmission line 3.2 km · 500 kV
Transmission line within commercial-solar range.
Services

Health + water

Nearest hospital 22.3 km
Water treatment 5.7 km
Rural market
High confidence

Land sale activity

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

$1.30M
per hectare (median)
200
sales (last 5 yrs)
Land use

Dominant rural land use

From the ABARES Catchment Scale Land Use classification.

Residential and farm infrastructure

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

Market trends

Council-wide pulse

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

Price change · 12 mo
-3.7%
median price across all sales (residential + rural)
Price change · 3 mo
-8.5%
Sales volume · 12 mo
+15.9%
year-on-year change in sale count
Median weekly rent
$603
+4.8% y/y
Gross rental yield
2.64%
Days on market
50 days
10 active listings

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

Rural suburbs in Hawkesbury City Council (41)

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Suburb Rural lots
Freemans Reach 2756 832
Kurrajong 2758 807
East Kurrajong 2758 714
Bowen Mountain 2753 584
Oakville 2765 573
Wilberforce 2756 517
Grose Vale 2753 434
Ebenezer 2756 378
North Richmond 2754 356
Bilpin 2758 340
Kurmond 2757 324
Pitt Town 2756 295
Vineyard 2765 257
Blaxlands Ridge 2758 246
Grose Wold 2753 231
Lower Macdonald 2775 210
Kurrajong Hills 2758 199
Colo Heights 2756 152
Tennyson 2754 140
Glossodia 2756 135
The Slopes 2754 123
Sackville 2756 99
South Windsor 2756 96
Richmond 2753 90
Cumberland Reach 2756 89
Pitt Town Bottoms 2756 81
McGraths Hill 2756 77
St Albans 2775 74
Berambing 2758 61
Richmond Lowlands 2753 56
Cornwallis 2756 54
Kurrajong Heights 2758 53
Windsor 2756 46
Clarendon 2756 44
Yarramundi 2753 43
Mulgrave 2756 43
Mellong 2756 11
Windsor Downs 2756 3
Mogo Creek 2775 3
Webbs Creek 2775 3
Scheyville 2756 1
Mining & resources

Subsurface activity nearby

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

In mining title
0%
of rural lots
Nearest mine
20.2 km
mean across lots
Coal < 10 km
10%
of rural lots
Nearest critical mineral
118.5 km
Au, (Ag, Fe)
Land character
Geology Lachlan Orogen Wine region South Coast

About Hawkesbury City Council

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

Across 9,459 rural lots in Hawkesbury City Council, the dominant land use is Residential and farm infrastructure. Typical land capability is limited ag use.

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

Rural lots in Hawkesbury City Council average 892 mm annual rainfall, mean daily max temperature 23.6°C, and 17 frost days per year. Aridity index 0.63.

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

The median rural rate across Hawkesbury City Council is $1.30M/ha based on 200 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.