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Riverina

Leeton Shire Council

3,404 rural lots across 10 suburbs. Dominant land use: Irrigated cropping.

3,404
Rural lots
100,896 ha
Rural land
Good grazing
Typical capability (class 3)
25 tCO₂e/ha
Mean above-ground biomass

Leeton 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 3,404 rural lots in Leeton Shire Council.

Class 3 Good grazing
Class 1–20%
Class 3–471%
Class 5–628%
Class 7–80%
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
435 mm
Semi-arid
Mean max temp
23.9 °C
annual average daily max
Extreme heat days
33 / year
Hot summers
Frost days
31 / year
Frost-prone
Aridity index
0.25 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.

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

Cover profile

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

Green cover38%
Forest cover6%
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 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 Leeton Shire Council intersecting each hazard or planning constraint.

Groundwater vulnerable 72%
Recharge area or shallow aquifer.
Bushfire-prone 17%
Threatened ecological 6%
Heritage-listed 2%
No exposure
Flood-prone · Salinity-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 Leeton Shire Council.

Connectivity

Roads, rail, schools

Classified road 3.5 km
Nearest school 5.6 km
Rail station 11.8 km
Energy

Grid + transmission

Substation 12.3 km · 132 kV
Transmission line 5.3 km · 132 kV
Transmission line a moderate distance — small-scale connection feasible.
Services

Health + water

Nearest hospital 12.1 km
Water treatment 5.5 km
Rural market
Medium confidence

Land sale activity

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

$38k
per hectare (median)
20
sales (last 5 yrs)
Land use

Dominant rural land use

From the ABARES Catchment Scale Land Use classification.

Irrigated cropping

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

Market trends

Council-wide pulse

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

Price change · 12 mo
+57.2%
median price across all sales (residential + rural)
Price change · 3 mo
+56.2%
Sales volume · 12 mo
+81.5%
year-on-year change in sale count
Median weekly rent
$358
+4.8% y/y
Gross rental yield
3.50%
Days on market
52 days
12 active listings

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

Rural suburbs in Leeton Shire Council (8)

Click any column header to sort.

Suburb Rural lots
Leeton 2705 1,125
Murrami 2705 500
Whitton 2705 496
Stanbridge 2705 326
Merungle Hill 2705 239
Yanco 2703 175
Gogeldrie 2705 171
Cudgel 2705 64
Mining & resources

Subsurface activity nearby

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

In mining title
0%
of rural lots
Nearest mine
28.0 km
mean across lots
Coal < 10 km
0%
of rural lots
Nearest critical mineral
53.8 km
Sn
Land character
Geology Lachlan Orogen Wine region Riverina

About Leeton Shire Council

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

Across 3,404 rural lots in Leeton Shire Council, the dominant land use is Irrigated cropping. Typical land capability is good grazing.

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

Rural lots in Leeton Shire Council average 435 mm annual rainfall, mean daily max temperature 23.9°C, and 31 frost days per year. Aridity index 0.25.

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

The median rural rate across Leeton Shire Council is $38k/ha based on 20 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.