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Central West

Orange City Council

500 rural lots across 12 suburbs. Dominant land use: Residential and farm infrastructure.

500
Rural lots
4,368 ha
Rural land
Good grazing
Typical capability (class 3)
30 tCO₂e/ha
Mean above-ground biomass

Orange City 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 500 rural lots in Orange City Council.

Class 3 Good grazing
Class 1–24%
Class 3–495%
Class 5–61%
Class 7–80%
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
866 mm
Moderate rainfall
Mean max temp
18.8 °C
annual average daily max
Extreme heat days
2 / year
Cool summers
Frost days
75 / year
Frost-prone
Aridity index
0.64 P/PET
Sub-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.

30 tCO₂e/ha
mean across rural lots
122,195 tCO₂e
total estimated
Satellite above-ground biomass, summarised per lot.
Vegetation

Cover profile

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

Green cover54%
Forest cover6%
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 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 Orange City Council intersecting each hazard or planning constraint.

Groundwater vulnerable 98%
Recharge area or shallow aquifer.
Bushfire-prone 83%
Heritage-listed 36%
Threatened ecological 8%
No exposure
Flood-prone · 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 Orange City Council.

Connectivity

Roads, rail, schools

Classified road 742 m
Nearest school 3.1 km
Rail station 8.1 km
Energy

Grid + transmission

Substation 7.1 km · 132 kV
Transmission line 1.7 km · 132 kV
Transmission line on-doorstep — viable for utility-scale solar.
Services

Health + water

Nearest hospital 8.7 km
Water treatment 7.7 km
Rural market
High confidence

Land sale activity

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

$2.55M
per hectare (median)
27
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 Orange City Council.

Market trends

Council-wide pulse

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

Price change · 12 mo
+14.6%
median price across all sales (residential + rural)
Price change · 3 mo
-12.9%
Sales volume · 12 mo
-16.1%
year-on-year change in sale count
Median weekly rent
$499
+3.6% y/y
Gross rental yield
2.63%
Days on market
43 days
78 active listings

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

Rural suburbs in Orange City Council (11)

Click any column header to sort.

Suburb Rural lots
Millthorpe 2798 461
Orange 2800 313
Springside 2800 218
Canobolas 2800 212
Guyong 2798 205
Spring Hill 2800 195
Spring Terrace 2798 116
Emu Swamp 2800 96
Lucknow 2800 88
Clifton Grove 2800 39
Shadforth 2800 9
Mining & resources

Subsurface activity nearby

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

In mining title
0%
of rural lots
Nearest mine
75.4 km
mean across lots
Coal < 10 km
0%
of rural lots
Nearest critical mineral
8.4 km
Au
Land character
Geology Lachlan Orogen Wine region Orange

About Orange City Council

What's the dominant rural land use in Orange City Council?

Across 500 rural lots in Orange City Council, the dominant land use is Residential and farm infrastructure. Typical land capability is good grazing.

What's the climate of Orange City Council's rural land?

Rural lots in Orange City Council average 866 mm annual rainfall, mean daily max temperature 18.8°C, and 75 frost days per year. Aridity index 0.64.

What's the rural land market like in Orange City Council?

The median rural rate across Orange City Council is $2.55M/ha based on 27 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.