877 rural lots across 16 suburbs. Dominant land use: Grazing modified pastures.
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 877 rural lots in The Council of the Municipality of Kiama.
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 Municipality of Kiama intersecting each hazard or planning constraint.
Mean distances from rural lots to roads, schools, hospitals, transmission and substations across The Council of the Municipality of Kiama.
Registered RU-zoned sales across The Council of the Municipality of Kiama, last 5 years.
From ABARES Catchment Scale Land Use.
The largest-share land-use category across rural lots in The Council of the Municipality of Kiama.
12-month price and volume movement, rent and yield. Reflects the broader market across The Council of the Municipality of Kiama; 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↓ |
|---|---|
| Jamberoo 2533 | 330 |
| Curramore 2533 | 77 |
| Kiama 2533 | 76 |
| Jerrara 2533 | 70 |
| Croom 2527 | 65 |
| Broughton Village 2534 | 57 |
| Foxground 2534 | 48 |
| Toolijooa 2534 | 45 |
| Willow Vale 2575 | 33 |
| Gerringong 2534 | 30 |
| Saddleback Mountain 2533 | 19 |
| Yellow Rock Ridge 2527 | 18 |
| Bombo 2533 | 12 |
| Gerroa 2534 | 10 |
| Kiama Heights 2533 | 10 |
Active mining titles, coal-mine proximity and critical-mineral occurrences across The Council of the Municipality of Kiama.
Other rural councils in the same region.
Across 877 rural lots in The Council of the Municipality of Kiama, the dominant land use is Grazing modified pastures. 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 Municipality of Kiama average 1,459 mm annual rainfall, mean daily max temperature 21.5°C, and 0 frost days per year. Aridity index 1.00 — drawn from BOM 30-year normals.
Median rural rate across The Council of the Municipality of Kiama is $1.70M/ha based on 25 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.