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Central West

Oberon Council

6,036 rural lots across 41 suburbs. Dominant land use: Grazing modified pastures.

6,036
Rural lots
249,575 ha
Rural land
Good grazing
Typical capability (class 4)
94 tCO₂e/ha
Mean above-ground biomass

Oberon 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 6,036 rural lots in Oberon Council.

Class 4 Good grazing
Class 1–21%
Class 3–452%
Class 5–639%
Class 7–88%
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
780 mm
Moderate rainfall
Mean max temp
18.2 °C
annual average daily max
Extreme heat days
2 / year
Cool summers
Frost days
84 / year
Frost-prone
Aridity index
0.67 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.

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

Cover profile

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

Green cover57%
Forest cover30%
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
1.6
km away
A bore is close — within walking distance for most lots.
Plan: Water Sharing Plan for the Macquarie/Wambuul Bogan 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 Oberon Council intersecting each hazard or planning constraint.

Bushfire-prone 100%
Threatened ecological 6%
Heritage-listed 1%
No exposure
Flood-prone · Groundwater vulnerable · 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 Oberon Council.

Connectivity

Roads, rail, schools

Classified road 6.8 km
Nearest school 17.0 km
Rail station 36.2 km
Energy

Grid + transmission

Substation 22.5 km · 132 kV
Transmission line 8.6 km · 500 kV
Transmission line a moderate distance — small-scale connection feasible.
Services

Health + water

Nearest hospital 23.6 km
Water treatment 21.3 km
Rural market
High confidence

Land sale activity

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

$44k
per hectare (median)
28
sales (last 5 yrs)
Land use

Dominant rural land use

From the ABARES Catchment Scale Land Use classification.

Grazing modified pastures

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

Market trends

Council-wide pulse

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

Price change · 12 mo
+15.4%
median price across all sales (residential + rural)
Price change · 3 mo
-2.5%
Sales volume · 12 mo
+268.5%
year-on-year change in sale count
Median weekly rent
$421
+20.6% y/y
Gross rental yield
4.38%
Days on market
31 days
3 active listings

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

Rural suburbs in Oberon Council (38)

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Suburb Rural lots
Oberon 2787 625
Burraga 2795 466
Rockley 2795 424
Black Springs 2787 412
Triangle Flat 2795 380
Tarana 2787 372
Porters Retreat 2787 349
O'Connell 2795 339
The Lagoon 2795 311
Essington 2795 282
Gingkin 2787 242
Wisemans Creek 2795 242
Ganbenang 2790 241
Isabella 2795 233
Mount David 2795 224
Edith 2787 199
Gilmandyke 2795 188
Mozart 2787 169
Shooters Hill 2787 148
Norway 2787 146
Paling Yards 2580 142
Hazelgrove 2787 137
Dog Rocks 2795 126
Duckmaloi 2787 126
Bald Ridge 2795 118
Arkstone 2795 115
Judds Creek 2795 104
Ballyroe 2795 90
Jaunter 2787 79
Chatham Valley 2787 77
Charlton 2795 76
Jeremy 2795 73
Jerrong 2580 60
The Meadows 2787 43
Jenolan 2790 30
Twenty Forests 2795 22
Gurnang 2787 11
Mount Werong 2787 1
Mining & resources

Subsurface activity nearby

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

In mining title
0%
of rural lots
Nearest mine
49.0 km
mean across lots
Coal < 10 km
0%
of rural lots
Nearest critical mineral
25.8 km
Au, (Ag, Fe)
Land character
Geology Lachlan Orogen Wine region Central Ranges

About Oberon Council

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

Across 6,036 rural lots in Oberon Council, the dominant land use is Grazing modified pastures. Typical land capability is good grazing.

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

Rural lots in Oberon Council average 780 mm annual rainfall, mean daily max temperature 18.2°C, and 84 frost days per year. Aridity index 0.67.

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

The median rural rate across Oberon Council is $44k/ha based on 28 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.