4,809 rural lots across 29 suburbs. Dominant land use: Grazing native vegetation.
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.
Distribution of NSW DPI Land & Soil Capability classes across the 4,809 rural lots in Muswellbrook Shire Council.
30-year climate normals from BOM weather stations, averaged across rural lots in this council.
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).
Above-ground biomass — woody vegetation already on the land.
DEA Fractional Cover from Sentinel-2 (25m).
Water-sharing-plan coverage and bore proximity across rural lots.
Water-sharing-plan coverage and bore proximity across rural lots.
Source: NSW DCCEEW Water Sharing Plans · NSW DCCEEW Groundwater Bores Register.
Share of rural lots in Muswellbrook Shire Council intersecting each hazard or planning constraint.
Mean distances from rural lots to roads, schools, hospitals, transmission and substations across Muswellbrook Shire Council.
Registered RU-zoned sales across Muswellbrook Shire Council, last 5 years.
From ABARES Catchment Scale Land Use.
The largest-share land-use category across rural lots in Muswellbrook Shire Council.
12-month price and volume movement, rent and yield. Reflects the broader market across Muswellbrook Shire Council; the rural-only $/ha rate above is the rural benchmark.
Trend indicators reflect the broader suburb market (rural + residential). $/ha rural rate above is the rural-only benchmark.
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↓ |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Active mining titles, coal-mine proximity and critical-mineral occurrences across Muswellbrook Shire Council.
Other rural councils in the same region.
Across 4,809 rural lots in Muswellbrook Shire Council, the dominant land use is Grazing native vegetation. The typical land-capability class is Limited ag use — from the NSW DPI Land & Soil Capability v4 polygon layer.
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 — drawn from BOM 30-year normals.
Median rural rate across Muswellbrook Shire Council is $1.41M/ha based on 64 registered RU-zoned sales in the last 5 years (high confidence).
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.