6,726 rural lots across 17 suburbs. Dominant land use: Cropping.
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 NSW DPI Land & Soil Capability classes across the 6,726 rural lots in Parkes Shire Council.
30-year climate normals from BOM weather stations, averaged across rural lots in this council.
Climate values are the average across rural lots in this suburb, drawn from BOM 30-year normals (~1,820 weather stations, KNN to lot centroids).
Above-ground biomass — woody vegetation already on the land.
DEA Fractional Cover from Sentinel-2 (25m).
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 Parkes Shire Council intersecting each hazard or planning constraint.
Mean distances from rural lots to roads, schools, hospitals, transmission and substations across Parkes Shire Council.
Registered RU-zoned sales across Parkes Shire Council, last 5 years.
From ABARES Catchment Scale Land Use.
The largest-share land-use category across rural lots in Parkes Shire Council.
12-month price and volume movement, rent and yield. Reflects the broader market across Parkes Shire Council; the rural-only $/ha rate above is the rural benchmark.
Trend indicators reflect the broader suburb market (rural + residential). $/ha rural rate above is the rural-only benchmark.
Click any column header to sort. Capability is the median LSC class across rural lots; carbon is mean tCO₂e/ha; $/ha is the median 5-year rural sale rate (H/M/L pill = data confidence).
| Suburb | Rural lots↓ |
|---|---|
| Parkes 2870 | 1,456 |
| Peak Hill 2869 | 1,440 |
| Trundle 2875 | 883 |
| Tullamore 2874 | 752 |
| Bogan Gate 2876 | 493 |
| Alectown 2870 | 430 |
| Cookamidgera 2870 | 281 |
| Tichborne 2870 | 279 |
| Goonumbla 2870 | 274 |
| Mandagery 2870 | 247 |
| Yarrabandai 2875 | 241 |
| Gunningbland 2876 | 170 |
| Daroobalgie 2870 | 145 |
| Cooks Myalls 2870 | 133 |
| Nelungaloo 2876 | 111 |
| Trewilga 2869 | 96 |
| Bruie Plains 2875 | 88 |
Active mining titles, coal-mine proximity and critical-mineral occurrences across Parkes Shire Council.
Other rural councils in the same region.
Across 6,726 rural lots in Parkes Shire Council, the dominant land use is Cropping. The typical land-capability class is Good grazing — from the NSW DPI Land & Soil Capability v4 polygon layer.
Rural lots in Parkes Shire Council average 572 mm annual rainfall, mean daily max temperature 24.2°C, and 39 frost days per year. Aridity index 0.32 — drawn from BOM 30-year normals.
Median rural rate across Parkes Shire Council is $689k/ha based on 119 registered RU-zoned sales in the last 5 years (high confidence).
Land capability is the NSW DPI Land & Soil Capability v4 polygon layer. Carbon stock is the ESA CCI Biomass 2023 satellite product (~100m). Vegetation cover (green / forest) is DEA Fractional Cover (Sentinel-2). Climate is BOM 30-year normals from ~1,820 weather stations. Rural market is from registered NSW property sales filtered to RU-zoned lots.