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Riverina

Lockhart Shire Council

5,529 rural lots across 22 suburbs. Dominant land use: Cropping.

5,529
Rural lots
281,357 ha
Rural land
Good grazing
Typical capability (class 4)
24 tCO₂e/ha
Mean above-ground biomass

Lockhart 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 5,529 rural lots in Lockhart Shire Council.

Class 4 Good grazing
Class 1–20%
Class 3–489%
Class 5–610%
Class 7–81%
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
520 mm
Sub-humid
Mean max temp
22.9 °C
annual average daily max
Extreme heat days
25 / year
Warm summers
Frost days
42 / year
Frost-prone
Aridity index
0.33 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.

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

Cover profile

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

Green cover39%
Forest cover5%
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
3.9
km away
A bore is within easy driving — typical of farming country.
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 Lockhart Shire Council intersecting each hazard or planning constraint.

Bushfire-prone 77%
Threatened ecological 11%
Heritage-listed 3%
No exposure
Flood-prone · Groundwater vulnerable · 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 Lockhart Shire Council.

Connectivity

Roads, rail, schools

Classified road 4.6 km
Nearest school 7.3 km
Rail station 24.8 km
Energy

Grid + transmission

Substation 14.8 km · 132 kV
Transmission line 7.6 km · 330 kV
Transmission line a moderate distance — small-scale connection feasible.
Services

Health + water

Nearest hospital 17.5 km
Water treatment 13.4 km
Rural market
High confidence

Land sale activity

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

$1.19M
per hectare (median)
214
sales (last 5 yrs)
Land use

Dominant rural land use

From the ABARES Catchment Scale Land Use classification.

Cropping

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

Market trends

Council-wide pulse

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

Price change · 12 mo
-16.2%
median price across all sales (residential + rural)
Price change · 3 mo
+108.1%
Sales volume · 12 mo
+169.2%
year-on-year change in sale count
Median weekly rent
$349
+32.5% y/y
Gross rental yield
5.17%
Days on market
31 days
4 active listings

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

Rural suburbs in Lockhart Shire Council (19)

Click any column header to sort.

Suburb Rural lots
Urana 2645 1,653
Henty 2658 1,451
Rand 2642 707
Yerong Creek 2642 521
Pleasant Hills 2658 508
Milbrulong 2656 356
Urangeline East 2656 235
Urangeline 2656 215
Tootool 2655 211
Brookong 2656 175
Munyabla 2658 171
Ryan 2658 161
Osborne 2656 160
Bidgeemia 2642 125
Wrathall 2642 118
Cullivel 2645 114
Alma Park 2659 99
Fargunyah 2656 76
French Park 2655 62
Land character
Geology Lachlan Orogen Wine region Riverina

About Lockhart Shire Council

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

Across 5,529 rural lots in Lockhart Shire Council, the dominant land use is Cropping. Typical land capability is good grazing.

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

Rural lots in Lockhart Shire Council average 520 mm annual rainfall, mean daily max temperature 22.9°C, and 42 frost days per year. Aridity index 0.33.

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

The median rural rate across Lockhart Shire Council is $1.19M/ha based on 214 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.