2,083 rural lots across 12 suburbs. Dominant land use: Residential and farm infrastructure.
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.
Distribution of NSW DPI Land & Soil Capability classes across the 2,083 rural lots in The Council of the Shire of Hornsby.
30-year climate normals from BOM weather stations, averaged across rural lots in this council.
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).
Above-ground biomass — woody vegetation already on the land.
DEA Fractional Cover from Sentinel-2 (25m).
Water-sharing-plan coverage and bore proximity across rural lots.
Water-sharing-plan coverage and bore proximity across rural lots.
Source: NSW DCCEEW Water Sharing Plans · NSW DCCEEW Groundwater Bores Register.
Share of rural lots in The Council of the Shire of Hornsby intersecting each hazard or planning constraint.
Mean distances from rural lots to roads, schools, hospitals, transmission and substations across The Council of the Shire of Hornsby.
Registered RU-zoned sales across The Council of the Shire of Hornsby, last 5 years.
From ABARES Catchment Scale Land Use.
The largest-share land-use category across rural lots in The Council of the Shire of Hornsby.
12-month price and volume movement, rent and yield. Reflects the broader market across The Council of the Shire of Hornsby; the rural-only $/ha rate above is the rural benchmark.
Trend indicators reflect the broader suburb market (rural + residential). $/ha rural rate above is the rural-only benchmark.
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↓ |
|---|---|
| Galston 2159 | 521 |
| Arcadia 2159 | 376 |
| Fiddletown 2159 | 64 |
| Canoelands 2157 | 47 |
| Berrilee 2159 | 46 |
| Forest Glen 2157 | 29 |
| Castle Hill 2154 | 7 |
Active mining titles, coal-mine proximity and critical-mineral occurrences across The Council of the Shire of Hornsby.
Other rural councils in the same region.
Across 2,083 rural lots in The Council of the Shire of Hornsby, the dominant land use is Residential and farm infrastructure. The typical land-capability class is Good grazing — from the NSW DPI Land & Soil Capability v4 polygon layer.
Rural lots in The Council of the Shire of Hornsby average 961 mm annual rainfall, mean daily max temperature 23.3°C, and 4 frost days per year. Aridity index 0.68 — drawn from BOM 30-year normals.
Median rural rate across The Council of the Shire of Hornsby is $1.32M/ha based on 85 registered RU-zoned sales in the last 5 years (high confidence).
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.