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 land-capability classes across the 6,726 rural lots in Parkes Shire 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 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 rural-zoned sales across Parkes Shire Council, last 5 years.
From the ABARES Catchment Scale Land Use classification.
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 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↓ |
|---|---|
| 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. Typical land capability is good grazing.
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.
The median rural rate across Parkes Shire Council is $976k/ha based on 119 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.