754,627 rural NSW lots pre-computed | 183 data fields per property | Carbon credit estimates for every lot | 159+ regulatory obligations from 16 regulations | Soil, climate, water, vegetation intelligence | Know what you CAN do with your land | Reports in ~60 seconds | 754,627 rural NSW lots pre-computed | 183 data fields per property | Carbon credit estimates for every lot | 159+ regulatory obligations from 16 regulations | Soil, climate, water, vegetation intelligence | Know what you CAN do with your land | Reports in ~60 seconds |
Hunter

Maitland City Council

3,227 rural lots across 50 suburbs. Dominant land use: Grazing modified pastures.

3,227
Rural lots
37,701 ha
Rural land
Good grazing
Typical capability (LSC class 3)
44 tCO₂e/ha
Mean above-ground biomass

Maitland City Council — 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 3,227 rural lots in Maitland City Council.

Class 3 Good grazing
Class 1–20%
Class 3–474%
Class 5–625%
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

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

Annual rainfall
833 mm
Moderate rainfall
Mean max temp
24.4 °C
annual average daily max
Extreme heat days
16 / year
Warm summers
Frost days
7 / year
Light frost
Aridity index
0.57 P/PET
Sub-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.

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

Cover profile

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

Green cover57%
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
0.8
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 Maitland City Council intersecting each hazard or planning constraint.

Acid-sulfate soils 100%
Bushfire-prone 85%
Coastal environment 40%
Flood-prone 30%
Heritage-listed 17%
Threatened ecological 7%
Mine subsidence 3%
No exposure
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 Maitland City Council.

Connectivity

Roads, rail, schools

Classified road 1.4 km
Nearest school 2.2 km
Rail station 3.2 km
Energy

Grid + transmission

Substation 7.8 km · 132 kV
Transmission line 7.2 km · 132 kV
Transmission line a moderate distance — small-scale connection feasible.
Services

Health + water

Nearest hospital 8.5 km
Water treatment 4.0 km
Rural market
High confidence

Land sale activity

Registered RU-zoned sales across Maitland City Council, last 5 years.

$345k
per hectare (median)
79
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 Maitland City Council.

Market trends

Council-wide pulse

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

Price change · 12 mo
+35.2%
median price across all sales (residential + rural)
Price change · 3 mo
+21.2%
Sales volume · 12 mo
+130.9%
year-on-year change in sale count
Median weekly rent
$553
+5.7% y/y
Gross rental yield
3.38%
Days on market
44 days
11 active listings

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

Rural suburbs in Maitland City Council (48)

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
Maitland 2320 351
South Maitland 2320 339
Millers Forest 2324 271
Greta 2334 183
East Maitland 2323 181
Louth Park 2320 161
Oakhampton 2320 118
Largs 2320 102
Lochinvar 2321 101
Bishops Bridge 2326 92
Gosforth 2320 86
Luskintyre 2321 84
Phoenix Park 2321 84
Berry Park 2323 71
Allandale 2320 70
Lorn 2320 67
Maitland Vale 2320 67
Bolwarra 2320 66
Mindaribba 2320 63
Cliftleigh 2321 63
Farley 2320 62
Raworth 2321 60
Gillieston Heights 2321 54
Morpeth 2321 52
Rosebrook 2320 51
Aberglasslyn 2320 51
Duckenfield 2321 46
Telarah 2320 45
Pitnacree 2323 42
Horseshoe Bend 2320 36
Harpers Hill 2321 35
Bolwarra Heights 2320 34
Melville 2759 33
Windermere 2321 31
Woodberry 2322 29
Thornton 2322 28
Oswald 2321 28
Hillsborough 2290 26
Anambah 2320 23
Chisholm 2322 16
Tenambit 2323 15
Oakhampton Heights 2321 13
Mount Dee 2320 11
Tocal 2421 11
Ashtonfield 2323 10
Metford 2323 6
Windella 2320 5
Rutherford 2320 3
Mining & resources

Subsurface activity nearby

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

In mining title
0%
of rural lots
Nearest mine
7.0 km
mean across lots
Coal < 10 km
85%
of rural lots
Nearest critical mineral
240.5 km
Au, (W, WO3, Sb)
Land character
Geology New England Orogen Wine GI Hunter

About Maitland City Council

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

Across 3,227 rural lots in Maitland City Council, 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 Maitland City Council's rural land?

Rural lots in Maitland City Council average 833 mm annual rainfall, mean daily max temperature 24.4°C, and 7 frost days per year. Aridity index 0.57 — drawn from BOM 30-year normals.

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

Median rural rate across Maitland City Council is $345k/ha based on 79 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.