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Riverina

Hay Shire Council

7,233 rural lots across 6 suburbs. Dominant land use: Grazing native vegetation.

7,233
Rural lots
1.59 M ha
Rural land
Limited ag use
Typical capability (LSC class 5)
34 tCO₂e/ha
Mean above-ground biomass

Hay Shire Council — rural suburbs

© NSW Government · DEA · CSIRO TERN

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 NSW DPI Land & Soil Capability classes across the 7,233 rural lots in Hay Shire Council.

Class 5 Limited ag use
Class 1–20%
Class 3–424%
Class 5–675%
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

30-year climate normals from BOM weather stations, averaged across rural lots in this council.

Annual rainfall
337 mm
Semi-arid
Mean max temp
24.7 °C
annual average daily max
Extreme heat days
40 / year
Hot summers
Frost days
30 / year
Frost-prone
Aridity index
0.18 P/PET
Arid

Climate values are the average across rural lots in this suburb, drawn from BOM 30-year normals (~1,820 weather stations, KNN to lot centroids).

Carbon

Carbon profile

Above-ground biomass — woody vegetation already on the land.

34 tCO₂e/ha
mean across rural lots
7.16 M tCO₂e
total estimated
ESA CCI Biomass 2023, ~100m raster.
Vegetation

Cover profile

DEA Fractional Cover from Sentinel-2 (25m).

Green cover32%
Forest cover4%
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
2.0
km away
A bore is within easy driving — typical of farming country.
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 Hay Shire Council intersecting each hazard or planning constraint.

Groundwater vulnerable 35%
Recharge area or shallow aquifer.
Bushfire-prone 28%
Threatened ecological 26%
TEC mapping — clearing constraints apply.
No exposure
Flood-prone · Heritage-listed · 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 Hay Shire Council.

Connectivity

Roads, rail, schools

Classified road 4.8 km
Nearest school 27.1 km
Rail station 106.6 km
Energy

Grid + transmission

Substation 28.5 km · 220 kV
Transmission line 21.7 km · 220 kV
Transmission line is far — energy export would need on-site storage or a feeder upgrade.
Services

Health + water

Nearest hospital 27.5 km
Water treatment 31.0 km
Rural market
High confidence

Land sale activity

Registered RU-zoned sales across Hay Shire Council, last 5 years.

$1.42M
per hectare (median)
124
sales (last 5 yrs)
Land use

Dominant rural land use

From ABARES Catchment Scale Land Use.

Grazing native vegetation

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

Market trends

Council-wide pulse

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

Price change · 12 mo
+154.0%
median price across all sales (residential + rural)
Price change · 3 mo
+10.9%
Sales volume · 12 mo
+46.0%
year-on-year change in sale count
Median weekly rent
$200
+6.8% y/y
Gross rental yield
4.02%
Days on market
47 days
6 active listings

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

Rural suburbs in Hay Shire Council (6)

Click any column header to sort. Capability is the median LSC class across rural lots; carbon is mean tCO₂e/ha; $/ha is the median 5-year rural sale rate (H/M/L pill = data confidence).

Suburb Rural lots
Hay 2711 2,907
Hay South 2711 1,614
Booligal 2711 1,045
Booroorban 2710 1,027
Maude 2711 1,014
One Tree 2711 517
Land character
Geology Lachlan Orogen Wine GI Riverina

About Hay Shire Council

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

Across 7,233 rural lots in Hay Shire Council, the dominant land use is Grazing native vegetation. The typical land-capability class is Limited ag use — from the NSW DPI Land & Soil Capability v4 polygon layer.

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

Rural lots in Hay Shire Council average 337 mm annual rainfall, mean daily max temperature 24.7°C, and 30 frost days per year. Aridity index 0.18 — drawn from BOM 30-year normals.

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

Median rural rate across Hay Shire Council is $1.42M/ha based on 124 registered RU-zoned sales in the last 5 years (high confidence).

What data sources are used?

Land capability is the NSW DPI Land & Soil Capability v4 polygon layer. Carbon stock is the ESA CCI Biomass 2023 satellite product (~100m). Vegetation cover (green / forest) is DEA Fractional Cover (Sentinel-2). Climate is BOM 30-year normals from ~1,820 weather stations. Rural market is from registered NSW property sales filtered to RU-zoned lots.