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Hunter

Lake Macquarie City Council

1,614 rural lots across 44 suburbs. Dominant land use: Residential and farm infrastructure.

1,614
Rural lots
9,028 ha
Rural land
Good grazing
Typical capability (class 4)
201 tCO₂e/ha
Mean above-ground biomass

Lake Macquarie City 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 1,614 rural lots in Lake Macquarie City Council.

Class 4 Good grazing
Class 1–20%
Class 3–474%
Class 5–623%
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
1,120 mm
Wet
Mean max temp
23.2 °C
annual average daily max
Extreme heat days
7 / year
Mild summers
Frost days
1 / year
Frost-free
Aridity index
0.78 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.

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

Cover profile

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

Green cover63%
Forest cover41%
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
0.9
km away
A bore is close — within walking distance for most lots.
Plan: Water Sharing Plan for the Hunter Unregulated and Alluvial Water Sources 2022

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

Risks & constraints

Hazard exposure across rural lots

Share of rural lots in Lake Macquarie City Council intersecting each hazard or planning constraint.

Bushfire-prone 88%
Acid-sulfate soils 55%
Mine subsidence 53%
Coastal environment 35%
Threatened ecological 18%
Heritage-listed 2%
No exposure
Flood-prone · Groundwater vulnerable · Salinity-prone · Landslide-prone · Contamination history · In mining title
Infrastructure

Access and grid connection

Mean distances from rural lots to roads, schools, hospitals, transmission and substations across Lake Macquarie City Council.

Connectivity

Roads, rail, schools

Classified road 1.1 km
Nearest school 1.8 km
Rail station 3.5 km
Energy

Grid + transmission

Substation 3.1 km · 500 kV
Transmission line 1.3 km · 500 kV
Transmission line on-doorstep — viable for utility-scale solar.
Services

Health + water

Nearest hospital 12.9 km
Water treatment 3.9 km
Rural market
High confidence

Land sale activity

Registered rural-zoned sales across Lake Macquarie City Council, last 5 years.

$1.83M
per hectare (median)
67
sales (last 5 yrs)
Land use

Dominant rural land use

From the ABARES Catchment Scale Land Use classification.

Residential and farm infrastructure

The largest-share land-use category across rural lots in Lake Macquarie City Council.

Market trends

Council-wide pulse

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

Price change · 12 mo
+27.3%
median price across all sales (residential + rural)
Price change · 3 mo
+12.6%
Sales volume · 12 mo
+39.5%
year-on-year change in sale count
Median weekly rent
$566
+9.4% y/y
Gross rental yield
3.93%
Days on market
65 days
19 active listings

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

Rural suburbs in Lake Macquarie City Council (43)

Click any column header to sort.

Suburb Rural lots
Cooranbong 2265 408
Wyee 2259 256
Morisset 2264 148
Kilaben Bay 2283 73
Wyee Point 2259 69
Eleebana 2282 63
Mandalong 2264 54
Eraring 2264 47
Dora Creek 2264 46
Macquarie Hills 2285 46
Wakefield 2301 46
Mirrabooka 2264 42
Blackalls Park 2283 34
Warners Bay 2282 24
Barnsley 2278 23
Martinsville 2265 22
West Wallsend 2286 20
Awaba 2283 19
Bonnells Bay 2264 19
Freemans Waterhole 2323 17
Toronto 2283 15
Teralba 2284 14
Holmesville 2286 12
Tingira Heights 2290 11
Fassifern 2283 10
Cams Wharf 2281 9
Fennell Bay 2283 8
Morisset Park 2264 8
Cardiff Heights 2285 7
Garden Suburb 2289 7
Glendale 2285 7
Redhead 2290 6
Rathmines 2283 5
Whitebridge 2290 5
Charlestown 2290 3
Jewells 2280 1
Belmont 2280 1
Ryhope 2283 1
Belmont North 2280 1
Gateshead 2290 1
Cardiff 2285 1
Killingworth 2278 1
Highfields 2289 1
Mining & resources

Subsurface activity nearby

Active mining titles, coal-mine proximity and critical-mineral occurrences across Lake Macquarie City Council.

In mining title
0%
of rural lots
Nearest mine
3.7 km
mean across lots
Coal < 10 km
100%
of rural lots
Nearest critical mineral
203.8 km
Au, (Ag, Fe)
Land character
Geology New England Orogen Wine region South Coast

About Lake Macquarie City Council

What's the dominant rural land use in Lake Macquarie City Council?

Across 1,614 rural lots in Lake Macquarie City Council, the dominant land use is Residential and farm infrastructure. Typical land capability is good grazing.

What's the climate of Lake Macquarie City Council's rural land?

Rural lots in Lake Macquarie City Council average 1,120 mm annual rainfall, mean daily max temperature 23.2°C, and 1 frost days per year. Aridity index 0.78.

What's the rural land market like in Lake Macquarie City Council?

The median rural rate across Lake Macquarie City Council is $1.83M/ha based on 67 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.