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Riverina

Junee Shire Council

6,871 rural lots across 13 suburbs. Dominant land use: Cropping.

6,871
Rural lots
192,417 ha
Rural land
Good grazing
Typical capability (class 3)
13 tCO₂e/ha
Mean above-ground biomass

Junee 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 6,871 rural lots in Junee Shire Council.

Class 3 Good grazing
Class 1–20%
Class 3–492%
Class 5–66%
Class 7–82%
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
545 mm
Sub-humid
Mean max temp
22.5 °C
annual average daily max
Extreme heat days
21 / year
Warm summers
Frost days
59 / year
Frost-prone
Aridity index
0.35 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.

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

Cover profile

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

Green cover46%
Forest cover1%
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
1.1
km away
A bore is close — within walking distance for most lots.
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 Junee Shire Council intersecting each hazard or planning constraint.

Groundwater vulnerable 25%
Recharge area or shallow aquifer.
Salinity-prone 14%
Bushfire-prone 5%
Threatened ecological 5%
Heritage-listed 3%
No exposure
Flood-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 Junee Shire Council.

Connectivity

Roads, rail, schools

Classified road 2.5 km
Nearest school 6.5 km
Rail station 10.7 km
Energy

Grid + transmission

Substation 6.6 km · 132 kV
Transmission line 3.1 km · 132 kV
Transmission line within commercial-solar range.
Services

Health + water

Nearest hospital 11.0 km
Water treatment 10.0 km
Rural market
High confidence

Land sale activity

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

$2.87M
per hectare (median)
324
sales (last 5 yrs)
Land use

Dominant rural land use

From the ABARES Catchment Scale Land Use classification.

Cropping

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

Market trends

Council-wide pulse

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

Price change · 12 mo
+1005.9%
median price across all sales (residential + rural)
Price change · 3 mo
+24.9%
Sales volume · 12 mo
+129.7%
year-on-year change in sale count
Median weekly rent
$367
+8.5% y/y
Gross rental yield
4.93%
Days on market
39 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 Junee Shire Council (12)

Click any column header to sort.

Suburb Rural lots
Junee 2663 2,543
Old Junee 2652 720
Bethungra 2590 633
Illabo 2590 477
Eurongilly 2663 376
Junee Reefs 2666 341
Yathella 2650 327
Wantabadgery 2650 321
Dirnaseer 2666 283
Erin Vale 2663 263
Wantiool 2663 184
Marinna 2663 135
Mining & resources

Subsurface activity nearby

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

In mining title
0%
of rural lots
Nearest mine
143.6 km
mean across lots
Coal < 10 km
0%
of rural lots
Nearest critical mineral
16.0 km
Au
Land character
Geology Lachlan Orogen Wine region Gundagai

About Junee Shire Council

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

Across 6,871 rural lots in Junee Shire Council, the dominant land use is Cropping. Typical land capability is good grazing.

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

Rural lots in Junee Shire Council average 545 mm annual rainfall, mean daily max temperature 22.5°C, and 59 frost days per year. Aridity index 0.35.

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

The median rural rate across Junee Shire Council is $2.87M/ha based on 324 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.