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Mid-North Coast

Kempsey Shire Council

9,114 rural lots across 56 suburbs. Dominant land use: Grazing native vegetation.

9,114
Rural lots
192,282 ha
Rural land
Limited ag use
Typical capability (class 5)
218 tCO₂e/ha
Mean above-ground biomass

Kempsey 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 9,114 rural lots in Kempsey Shire Council.

Class 5 Limited ag use
Class 1–20%
Class 3–449%
Class 5–633%
Class 7–818%
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
1,220 mm
Wet
Mean max temp
24.6 °C
annual average daily max
Extreme heat days
3 / year
Cool summers
Frost days
6 / year
Light frost
Aridity index
0.89 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.

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

Cover profile

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

Green cover62%
Forest cover33%
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
1.4
km away
A bore is close — within walking distance for most lots.
Plan: Water Sharing Plan for the Macleay Unregulated and Alluvial Water Sources 2016

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

Risks & constraints

Hazard exposure across rural lots

Share of rural lots in Kempsey Shire Council intersecting each hazard or planning constraint.

Bushfire-prone 87%
Acid-sulfate soils 66%
Coastal environment 35%
Threatened ecological 11%
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 Kempsey Shire Council.

Connectivity

Roads, rail, schools

Classified road 3.7 km
Nearest school 5.7 km
Rail station 16.7 km
Energy

Grid + transmission

Substation 33.3 km · 132 kV
Transmission line 4.9 km · 132 kV
Transmission line within commercial-solar range.
Services

Health + water

Nearest hospital 18.1 km
Water treatment 12.1 km
Rural market
High confidence

Land sale activity

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

$644k
per hectare (median)
174
sales (last 5 yrs)
Land use

Dominant rural land use

From the ABARES Catchment Scale Land Use classification.

Grazing native vegetation

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

Market trends

Council-wide pulse

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

Price change · 12 mo
+63.6%
median price across all sales (residential + rural)
Price change · 3 mo
+54.3%
Sales volume · 12 mo
+103.1%
year-on-year change in sale count
Median weekly rent
$427
+1.7% y/y
Gross rental yield
3.53%
Days on market
37 days
3 active listings

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

Rural suburbs in Kempsey Shire Council (53)

Click any column header to sort.

Suburb Rural lots
Bellbrook 2440 547
Frederickton 2440 515
Collombatti 2440 483
Stuarts Point 2441 465
Kinchela 2440 344
Comara 2440 341
Smithtown 2440 337
Gladstone 2440 321
Hat Head 2440 320
Dondingalong 2440 293
Clybucca 2440 289
Belmore River 2440 289
South Kempsey 2440 252
Crescent Head 2440 252
Toorooka 2440 220
Temagog 2440 196
Willawarrin 2440 176
Moparrabah 2440 166
Yarrahapinni 2441 150
Millbank 2440 143
Hickeys Creek 2440 142
Aldavilla 2440 124
Austral Eden 2440 122
Wittitrin 2440 122
Mungay Creek 2440 118
Barraganyatti 2441 116
Yessabah 2440 115
Fishermans Reach 2441 114
Sherwood 2440 114
Yarravel 2440 111
Bellimbopinni 2440 110
Euroka 2440 102
Summer Island 2440 101
Greenhill 2440 97
Turners Flat 2440 88
Verges Creek 2440 87
Willi Willi 2440 79
Rainbow Reach 2440 75
Jerseyville 2431 74
Old Station 2440 68
Pola Creek 2440 55
Seven Oaks 2440 52
Kempsey 2440 51
Grassy Head 2441 47
Mooneba 2440 45
Skillion Flat 2440 44
Corangula 2440 38
Hampden Hall 2440 32
West Kempsey 2440 27
East Kempsey 2440 26
South West Rocks 2431 21
Burnt Bridge 2440 16
Arakoon 2431 6
Land character
Geology New England Orogen Wine region Northern Rivers

About Kempsey Shire Council

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

Across 9,114 rural lots in Kempsey Shire Council, the dominant land use is Grazing native vegetation. Typical land capability is limited ag use.

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

Rural lots in Kempsey Shire Council average 1,220 mm annual rainfall, mean daily max temperature 24.6°C, and 6 frost days per year. Aridity index 0.89.

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

The median rural rate across Kempsey Shire Council is $644k/ha based on 174 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.