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Riverina

Murray River Council

10,629 rural lots across 39 suburbs. Dominant land use: Grazing native vegetation.

10,629
Rural lots
998,735 ha
Rural land
Good grazing
Typical capability (class 4)
34 tCO₂e/ha
Mean above-ground biomass

Murray River 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 10,629 rural lots in Murray River Council.

Class 4 Good grazing
Class 1–20%
Class 3–457%
Class 5–640%
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

Long-term climate averages across rural lots in this council.

Annual rainfall
356 mm
Semi-arid
Mean max temp
23.6 °C
annual average daily max
Extreme heat days
30 / year
Hot summers
Frost days
30 / year
Frost-prone
Aridity index
0.21 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.

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

Cover profile

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

Green cover32%
Forest cover10%
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
1.6
km away
A bore is close — within walking distance for most lots.
Plan: Water Sharing Plan for the Murray Unregulated River Water Sources 2024

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

Risks & constraints

Hazard exposure across rural lots

Share of rural lots in Murray River Council intersecting each hazard or planning constraint.

Bushfire-prone 88%
Threatened ecological 18%
No exposure
Flood-prone · Groundwater vulnerable · Heritage-listed · 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 Murray River Council.

Connectivity

Roads, rail, schools

Classified road 7.1 km
Nearest school 14.6 km
Rail station 212.3 km
Energy

Grid + transmission

Substation 19.4 km · 220 kV
Transmission line 10.1 km · 220 kV
Transmission line a moderate distance — small-scale connection feasible.
Services

Health + water

Nearest hospital 39.1 km
Water treatment 25.8 km
Rural market
High confidence

Land sale activity

Registered rural-zoned sales across Murray River Council, last 5 years.

$1.45M
per hectare (median)
277
sales (last 5 yrs)
Land use

Dominant rural land use

From the ABARES Catchment Scale Land Use classification.

Grazing native vegetation

The largest-share land-use category across rural lots in Murray River Council.

Market trends

Council-wide pulse

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

Price change · 12 mo
+116.7%
median price across all sales (residential + rural)
Price change · 3 mo
+27.4%
Sales volume · 12 mo
+196.7%
year-on-year change in sale count
Median weekly rent
$331
+3.2% y/y
Gross rental yield
5.77%
Days on market
38 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 Murray River Council (39)

Click any column header to sort.

Suburb Rural lots
Moulamein 2733 1,856
Deniliquin 2710 1,497
Mathoura 2710 1,096
Moama 2731 870
Barham 2732 463
Womboota 2731 407
Bunnaloo 2731 403
Burraboi 2732 350
Koraleigh 2735 348
Wakool 2710 334
Kyalite 2715 329
Tooleybuc 2736 309
Calimo 2710 252
Mallan 2734 229
Bullatale 2710 226
Tullakool 2732 214
Keri Keri 2711 214
Tantonan 2731 193
Caldwell 2710 180
Moolpa 2734 178
Thule 2732 159
Niemur 2733 153
Noorong 2732 148
Speewa 2735 141
Stony Crossing 2734 137
Aratula 2714 129
Dilpurra 2734 120
Goodnight 2736 119
Tooranie 2734 119
Murray Downs 2735 116
Dhuragoon 2733 107
Mellool 2734 104
Gonn 2732 104
Yanga 2711 99
Thyra 2731 90
Cobramunga 2732 75
Waugorah 2711 72
Wetuppa 2734 39
Cunninyeuk 2734 35
Land character
Geology Lachlan Orogen Wine region Big Rivers

About Murray River Council

What's the dominant rural land use in Murray River Council?

Across 10,629 rural lots in Murray River Council, the dominant land use is Grazing native vegetation. Typical land capability is good grazing.

What's the climate of Murray River Council's rural land?

Rural lots in Murray River Council average 356 mm annual rainfall, mean daily max temperature 23.6°C, and 30 frost days per year. Aridity index 0.21.

What's the rural land market like in Murray River Council?

The median rural rate across Murray River Council is $1.45M/ha based on 277 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.