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New England

Narrabri Shire Council

8,523 rural lots across 32 suburbs. Dominant land use: Grazing native vegetation.

8,523
Rural lots
964,393 ha
Rural land
Good grazing
Typical capability (class 3)
50 tCO₂e/ha
Mean above-ground biomass

Narrabri 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 8,523 rural lots in Narrabri Shire Council.

Class 3 Good grazing
Class 1–238%
Class 3–436%
Class 5–623%
Class 7–82%
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
604 mm
Sub-humid
Mean max temp
26.6 °C
annual average daily max
Extreme heat days
43 / year
Hot summers
Frost days
32 / year
Frost-prone
Aridity index
0.31 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.

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

Cover profile

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

Green cover27%
Forest cover15%
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 Namoi and Peel Unregulated Rivers Water Sources 2026

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

Risks & constraints

Hazard exposure across rural lots

Share of rural lots in Narrabri Shire Council intersecting each hazard or planning constraint.

Bushfire-prone 93%
Threatened ecological 11%
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 Narrabri Shire Council.

Connectivity

Roads, rail, schools

Classified road 6.5 km
Nearest school 12.3 km
Rail station 19.3 km
Energy

Grid + transmission

Substation 16.6 km · 132 kV
Transmission line 8.2 km · 132 kV
Transmission line a moderate distance — small-scale connection feasible.
Services

Health + water

Nearest hospital 23.4 km
Water treatment 28.0 km
Rural market
High confidence

Land sale activity

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

$648k
per hectare (median)
72
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 Narrabri Shire Council.

Market trends

Council-wide pulse

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

Price change · 12 mo
+1939.6%
median price across all sales (residential + rural)
Price change · 3 mo
+268.0%
Sales volume · 12 mo
+124.2%
year-on-year change in sale count
Median weekly rent
$336
+16.0% y/y
Gross rental yield
5.08%
Days on market
48 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 Narrabri Shire Council (29)

Click any column header to sort.

Suburb Rural lots
Narrabri 2390 1,720
Wee Waa 2388 911
Boggabri 2382 870
Bellata 2397 851
Maules Creek 2390 386
Baan Baa 2390 361
Merah North 2388 331
Gwabegar 2356 315
Spring Plains 2388 217
Millie 2397 205
Nowley 2386 198
Tarriaro 2390 178
Turrawan 2390 177
Edgeroi 2390 168
Bullawa Creek 2390 163
Bohena Creek 2390 148
Jews Lagoon 2397 146
Jacks Creek 2390 140
Boolcarroll 2388 136
Wean 2382 128
Eulah Creek 2390 126
Drildool 2386 114
Willala 2382 113
Bulyeroi 2387 95
Cuttabri 2388 95
Harparary 2390 82
Couradda 2390 67
The Pilliga 2388 66
Yarrie Lake 2388 61
Mining & resources

Subsurface activity nearby

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

In mining title
0%
of rural lots
Nearest mine
45.5 km
mean across lots
Coal < 10 km
17%
of rural lots
Nearest critical mineral
203.3 km
Sn, SnO2
Land character
Geology Lachlan Orogen Wine region Western Plains

About Narrabri Shire Council

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

Across 8,523 rural lots in Narrabri Shire Council, the dominant land use is Grazing native vegetation. Typical land capability is good grazing.

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

Rural lots in Narrabri Shire Council average 604 mm annual rainfall, mean daily max temperature 26.6°C, and 32 frost days per year. Aridity index 0.31.

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

The median rural rate across Narrabri Shire Council is $648k/ha based on 72 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.