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Greater Sydney

The Hills Shire Council

5,109 rural lots across 19 suburbs. Dominant land use: Residential and farm infrastructure.

5,109
Rural lots
26,630 ha
Rural land
Good grazing
Typical capability (class 4)
208 tCO₂e/ha
Mean above-ground biomass

The Hills 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 5,109 rural lots in The Hills Shire Council.

Class 4 Good grazing
Class 1–20%
Class 3–452%
Class 5–612%
Class 7–836%
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
957 mm
Moderate rainfall
Mean max temp
23.3 °C
annual average daily max
Extreme heat days
10 / year
Mild summers
Frost days
4 / year
Frost-free
Aridity index
0.67 P/PET
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.

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

Cover profile

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

Green cover61%
Forest cover59%
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 The Hills Shire Council intersecting each hazard or planning constraint.

Bushfire-prone 97%
Threatened ecological 30%
TEC mapping — clearing constraints apply.
Acid-sulfate soils 13%
Coastal environment 5%
Heritage-listed 2%
No exposure
Flood-prone · 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 The Hills Shire Council.

Connectivity

Roads, rail, schools

Classified road 998 m
Nearest school 2.4 km
Rail station 10.2 km
Energy

Grid + transmission

Substation 7.8 km · 330 kV
Transmission line 1.3 km · 500 kV
Transmission line on-doorstep — viable for utility-scale solar.
Services

Health + water

Nearest hospital 17.4 km
Water treatment 4.3 km
Rural market
High confidence

Land sale activity

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

$2.06M
per hectare (median)
248
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 The Hills Shire Council.

Market trends

Council-wide pulse

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

Price change · 12 mo
-11.7%
median price across all sales (residential + rural)
Price change · 3 mo
-9.2%
Sales volume · 12 mo
+9.9%
year-on-year change in sale count
Median weekly rent
$760
+3.1% y/y
Gross rental yield
1.67%
Days on market
49 days
9 active listings

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

Rural suburbs in The Hills Shire Council (19)

Click any column header to sort.

Suburb Rural lots
Kenthurst 2156 1,536
Glenorie 2157 1,057
Dural 2158 933
Maraylya 2765 446
Annangrove 2156 438
Cattai 2756 364
Middle Dural 2158 360
Maroota 2756 313
South Maroota 2756 272
Lower Portland 2756 239
Sackville North 2756 183
Glenhaven 2156 174
Nelson 2765 172
Wisemans Ferry 2775 44
Leets Vale 2775 42
Gables 2765 34
West Pennant Hills 2125 21
Rouse Hill 2155 9
Carlingford 2118 6
Mining & resources

Subsurface activity nearby

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

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

About The Hills Shire Council

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

Across 5,109 rural lots in The Hills Shire Council, the dominant land use is Residential and farm infrastructure. Typical land capability is good grazing.

What's the climate of The Hills Shire Council's rural land?

Rural lots in The Hills Shire Council average 957 mm annual rainfall, mean daily max temperature 23.3°C, and 4 frost days per year. Aridity index 0.67.

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

The median rural rate across The Hills Shire Council is $2.06M/ha based on 248 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.