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Greater Sydney

Northern Beaches Council

1,080 rural lots across 8 suburbs. Dominant land use: Residential and farm infrastructure.

1,080
Rural lots
1,420 ha
Rural land
Conservation only
Typical capability (class 7)
306 tCO₂e/ha
Mean above-ground biomass

Northern Beaches 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 1,080 rural lots in Northern Beaches Council.

Class 7 Conservation only
Class 1–20%
Class 3–435%
Class 5–612%
Class 7–850%
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
1,268 mm
Wet
Mean max temp
22.3 °C
annual average daily max
Extreme heat days
4 / year
Cool summers
Frost days
0 / year
Frost-free
Aridity index
0.87 P/PET
Humid

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.

306 tCO₂e/ha
mean across rural lots
365,571 tCO₂e
total estimated
Satellite above-ground biomass, summarised per lot.
Vegetation

Cover profile

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

Green cover61%
Forest cover53%
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
0.3
km away
Bore on or beside the property is typical.
Plan: Water Sharing Plan for the Greater Metropolitan Region Unregulated River Water Sources 2023

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

Risks & constraints

Hazard exposure across rural lots

Share of rural lots in Northern Beaches Council intersecting each hazard or planning constraint.

Bushfire-prone 89%
Acid-sulfate soils 64%
Landslide-prone 36%
Threatened ecological 7%
Heritage-listed 1%
No exposure
Flood-prone · Groundwater vulnerable · Salinity-prone · Mine subsidence · 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 Northern Beaches Council.

Connectivity

Roads, rail, schools

Classified road 876 m
Nearest school 2.2 km
Rail station 10.8 km
Energy

Grid + transmission

Substation 5.1 km · 330 kV
Transmission line 5.1 km · 132 kV
Transmission line a moderate distance — small-scale connection feasible.
Services

Health + water

Nearest hospital 4.5 km
Water treatment 2.3 km
Rural market
High confidence

Land sale activity

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

$4.03M
per hectare (median)
39
sales (last 5 yrs)
Land use

Dominant rural land use

From the ABARES Catchment Scale Land Use classification.

Residential and farm infrastructure

The largest-share land-use category across rural lots in Northern Beaches Council.

Market trends

Council-wide pulse

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

Price change · 12 mo
+26.6%
median price across all sales (residential + rural)
Price change · 3 mo
+105.9%
Sales volume · 12 mo
+251.8%
year-on-year change in sale count
Median weekly rent
$977
+7.3% y/y
Gross rental yield
1.34%
Days on market
42 days
6 active listings

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

Rural suburbs in Northern Beaches Council (8)

Click any column header to sort.

Suburb Rural lots
Ingleside 2101 578
Terrey Hills 2084 213
Duffys Forest 2084 177
Bayview 2104 72
Warriewood 2102 20
Elanora Heights 2101 14
Mona Vale 2103 5
Ku-ring-gai Chase 2080 1
Mining & resources

Subsurface activity nearby

Active mining titles, coal-mine proximity and critical-mineral occurrences across Northern Beaches Council.

In mining title
0%
of rural lots
Nearest mine
19.5 km
mean across lots
Coal < 10 km
0%
of rural lots
Nearest critical mineral
157.4 km
Au, (Ag, Fe)
Land character
Geology Lachlan Orogen Wine region South Coast

About Northern Beaches Council

What's the dominant rural land use in Northern Beaches Council?

Across 1,080 rural lots in Northern Beaches Council, the dominant land use is Residential and farm infrastructure. Typical land capability is conservation only.

What's the climate of Northern Beaches Council's rural land?

Rural lots in Northern Beaches Council average 1,268 mm annual rainfall, mean daily max temperature 22.3°C, and 0 frost days per year. Aridity index 0.87.

What's the rural land market like in Northern Beaches Council?

The median rural rate across Northern Beaches Council is $4.03M/ha based on 39 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.