500 rural lots across 12 suburbs. Dominant land use: Residential and farm infrastructure.
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 land-capability classes across the 500 rural lots in Orange City Council.
Long-term climate averages across rural lots in this council.
Climate values are the average across rural lots in this area, drawn from Bureau of Meteorology 30-year normals.
Above-ground biomass — woody vegetation already on the land.
Digital Earth Australia Fractional Cover, from Sentinel-2 imagery.
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 Orange City Council intersecting each hazard or planning constraint.
Mean distances from rural lots to roads, schools, hospitals, transmission and substations across Orange City Council.
Registered rural-zoned sales across Orange City Council, last 5 years.
From the ABARES Catchment Scale Land Use classification.
The largest-share land-use category across rural lots in Orange City Council.
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.
Trend indicators reflect the broader suburb market (rural + residential). $/ha rural rate above is the rural-only benchmark.
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| 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 |
Active mining titles, coal-mine proximity and critical-mineral occurrences across Orange City Council.
Other rural councils in the same region.
Across 500 rural lots in Orange City Council, the dominant land use is Residential and farm infrastructure. Typical land capability is good grazing.
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.
The median rural rate across Orange City Council is $2.55M/ha based on 27 registered rural-zoned sales in the last 5 years.
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.