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The Council of the Municipality of Kiama

877 rural lots across 16 suburbs. Dominant land use: Grazing modified pastures.

877
Rural lots
14,913 ha
Rural land
Good grazing
Typical capability (LSC class 4)
81 tCO₂e/ha
Mean above-ground biomass

The Council of the Municipality of Kiama — rural suburbs

© NSW Government · DEA · CSIRO TERN

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 NSW DPI Land & Soil Capability classes across the 877 rural lots in The Council of the Municipality of Kiama.

Class 4 Good grazing
Class 1–20%
Class 3–474%
Class 5–622%
Class 7–83%
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

30-year climate normals from BOM weather stations, averaged across rural lots in this council.

Annual rainfall
1,459 mm
Wet
Mean max temp
21.5 °C
annual average daily max
Extreme heat days
2 / year
Cool summers
Frost days
0 / year
Frost-free
Aridity index
1.00 P/PET
Humid

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).

Carbon

Carbon profile

Above-ground biomass — woody vegetation already on the land.

81 tCO₂e/ha
mean across rural lots
1.33 M tCO₂e
total estimated
ESA CCI Biomass 2023, ~100m raster.
Vegetation

Cover profile

DEA Fractional Cover from Sentinel-2 (25m).

Green cover72%
Forest cover17%
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
0.7
km away
A bore is close — within walking distance for most lots.
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 Council of the Municipality of Kiama intersecting each hazard or planning constraint.

Bushfire-prone 98%
Acid-sulfate soils 22%
Threatened ecological 8%
Coastal environment 7%
Heritage-listed 3%
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 Council of the Municipality of Kiama.

Connectivity

Roads, rail, schools

Classified road 995 m
Nearest school 2.9 km
Rail station 4.9 km
Energy

Grid + transmission

Substation 4.8 km · 132 kV
Transmission line 2.5 km · 330 kV
Transmission line within commercial-solar range.
Services

Health + water

Nearest hospital 5.8 km
Water treatment 3.5 km
Rural market
High confidence

Land sale activity

Registered RU-zoned sales across The Council of the Municipality of Kiama, last 5 years.

$1.70M
per hectare (median)
25
sales (last 5 yrs)
Land use

Dominant rural land use

From ABARES Catchment Scale Land Use.

Grazing modified pastures

The largest-share land-use category across rural lots in The Council of the Municipality of Kiama.

Market trends

Council-wide pulse

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.

Price change · 12 mo
-2.7%
median price across all sales (residential + rural)
Price change · 3 mo
-5.3%
Sales volume · 12 mo
+199.1%
year-on-year change in sale count
Median weekly rent
$669
+11.9% y/y
Gross rental yield
2.19%
Days on market
44 days
6 active listings

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

Rural suburbs in The Council of the Municipality of Kiama (15)

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
Mining & resources

Subsurface activity nearby

Active mining titles, coal-mine proximity and critical-mineral occurrences across The Council of the Municipality of Kiama.

In mining title
0%
of rural lots
Nearest mine
13.2 km
mean across lots
Coal < 10 km
52%
of rural lots
Nearest critical mineral
119.3 km
Zn, Cu, Pb, (Ag, Au)
Land character
Geology Lachlan Orogen Wine GI Shoalhaven Coast

About The Council of the Municipality of Kiama

What's the dominant rural land use in The Council of the Municipality of Kiama?

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.

What's the climate of The Council of the Municipality of Kiama's rural land?

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.

What's the rural land market like in The Council of the Municipality of Kiama?

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).

What data sources are used?

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.