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Hunter

Muswellbrook Shire Council

4,809 rural lots across 29 suburbs. Dominant land use: Grazing native vegetation.

4,809
Rural lots
131,088 ha
Rural land
Limited ag use
Typical capability (class 5)
44 tCO₂e/ha
Mean above-ground biomass

Muswellbrook 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 4,809 rural lots in Muswellbrook Shire Council.

Class 5 Limited ag use
Class 1–27%
Class 3–429%
Class 5–652%
Class 7–810%
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
693 mm
Sub-humid
Mean max temp
23.6 °C
annual average daily max
Extreme heat days
18 / year
Warm summers
Frost days
32 / year
Frost-prone
Aridity index
0.48 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.

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

Cover profile

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

Green cover41%
Forest cover17%
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
1.1
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 Muswellbrook Shire Council intersecting each hazard or planning constraint.

Bushfire-prone 92%
Threatened ecological 17%
Mine subsidence 14%
Heritage-listed 4%
No exposure
Flood-prone · Groundwater vulnerable · Salinity-prone · Landslide-prone · 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 Muswellbrook Shire Council.

Connectivity

Roads, rail, schools

Classified road 6.0 km
Nearest school 10.3 km
Rail station 24.6 km
Energy

Grid + transmission

Substation 12.1 km · 500 kV
Transmission line 8.9 km · 500 kV
Transmission line a moderate distance — small-scale connection feasible.
Services

Health + water

Nearest hospital 12.8 km
Water treatment 12.4 km
Rural market
High confidence

Land sale activity

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

$1.96M
per hectare (median)
60
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 Muswellbrook Shire Council.

Market trends

Council-wide pulse

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

Price change · 12 mo
+31.1%
median price across all sales (residential + rural)
Price change · 3 mo
+14.6%
Sales volume · 12 mo
+159.6%
year-on-year change in sale count
Median weekly rent
$457
+13.3% y/y
Gross rental yield
4.09%
Days on market
35 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 Muswellbrook Shire Council (21)

Click any column header to sort.

Suburb Rural lots
Denman 2328 940
Muswellbrook 2333 485
Widden 2328 459
Kayuga 2333 352
Muscle Creek 2333 252
McCullys Gap 2333 215
Martindale 2328 203
Wybong 2333 177
Sandy Hollow 2333 160
Baerami 2333 159
Castle Rock 2333 149
Giants Creek 2328 143
Baerami Creek 2333 140
Yarrawa 2328 119
Mangoola 2328 72
Kerrabee 2328 56
Edderton 2333 52
Bengalla 2333 51
Dalswinton 2328 42
Bureen 2328 37
Hollydeen 2328 13
Mining & resources

Subsurface activity nearby

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

In mining title
0%
of rural lots
Nearest mine
12.7 km
mean across lots
Coal < 10 km
61%
of rural lots
Nearest critical mineral
182.7 km
Au
Land character
Geology Lachlan Orogen Wine region Upper Hunter Valley

About Muswellbrook Shire Council

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

Across 4,809 rural lots in Muswellbrook Shire Council, the dominant land use is Grazing native vegetation. Typical land capability is limited ag use.

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

Rural lots in Muswellbrook Shire Council average 693 mm annual rainfall, mean daily max temperature 23.6°C, and 32 frost days per year. Aridity index 0.48.

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

The median rural rate across Muswellbrook Shire Council is $1.96M/ha based on 60 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.