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Riverina

Murrumbidgee Council

7,463 rural lots across 17 suburbs. Dominant land use: Grazing native vegetation.

7,463
Rural lots
644,959 ha
Rural land
Good grazing
Typical capability (class 4)
35 tCO₂e/ha
Mean above-ground biomass

Murrumbidgee 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 7,463 rural lots in Murrumbidgee Council.

Class 4 Good grazing
Class 1–20%
Class 3–468%
Class 5–627%
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
392 mm
Semi-arid
Mean max temp
23.8 °C
annual average daily max
Extreme heat days
32 / year
Hot summers
Frost days
33 / year
Frost-prone
Aridity index
0.23 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.

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

Cover profile

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

Green cover34%
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
1.0
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 Murrumbidgee Council intersecting each hazard or planning constraint.

Groundwater vulnerable 49%
Recharge area or shallow aquifer.
Threatened ecological 34%
TEC mapping — clearing constraints apply.
Bushfire-prone 16%
Heritage-listed 4%
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 Murrumbidgee Council.

Connectivity

Roads, rail, schools

Classified road 5.7 km
Nearest school 17.6 km
Rail station 72.1 km
Energy

Grid + transmission

Substation 17.1 km · 330 kV
Transmission line 8.7 km · 330 kV
Transmission line a moderate distance — small-scale connection feasible.
Services

Health + water

Nearest hospital 33.2 km
Water treatment 20.1 km
Rural market
High confidence

Land sale activity

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

$1.48M
per hectare (median)
85
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 Murrumbidgee Council.

Market trends

Council-wide pulse

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

Price change · 12 mo
-38.5%
median price across all sales (residential + rural)
Price change · 3 mo
-38.9%
Sales volume · 12 mo
+127.2%
year-on-year change in sale count
Median weekly rent
$305
+46.2% y/y
Gross rental yield
4.60%
Days on market
30 days
10 active listings

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

Rural suburbs in Murrumbidgee Council (17)

Click any column header to sort.

Suburb Rural lots
Carrathool 2711 2,185
Jerilderie 2716 2,041
Finley 2713 1,836
Coleambally 2707 1,593
Berrigan 2712 1,571
Darlington Point 2706 1,545
Oaklands 2646 1,151
Bundure 2700 608
Steam Plains 2710 569
Coree 2710 453
Mabins Well 2716 248
Argoon 2707 165
Four Corners 2716 148
Logie Brae 2713 111
Gala Vale 2716 108
Nyora 2646 93
Mairjimmy 2716 82
Land character
Geology Lachlan Orogen Wine region Riverina

About Murrumbidgee Council

What's the dominant rural land use in Murrumbidgee Council?

Across 7,463 rural lots in Murrumbidgee Council, the dominant land use is Grazing native vegetation. Typical land capability is good grazing.

What's the climate of Murrumbidgee Council's rural land?

Rural lots in Murrumbidgee Council average 392 mm annual rainfall, mean daily max temperature 23.8°C, and 33 frost days per year. Aridity index 0.23.

What's the rural land market like in Murrumbidgee Council?

The median rural rate across Murrumbidgee Council is $1.48M/ha based on 85 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.