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Central West

Parkes Shire Council

6,726 rural lots across 17 suburbs. Dominant land use: Cropping.

6,726
Rural lots
784,620 ha
Rural land
Good grazing
Typical capability (LSC class 4)
16 tCO₂e/ha
Mean above-ground biomass

Parkes Shire Council — rural suburbs

© NSW Government · DEA · CSIRO TERN

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 NSW DPI Land & Soil Capability classes across the 6,726 rural lots in Parkes Shire Council.

Class 4 Good grazing
Class 1–20%
Class 3–479%
Class 5–68%
Class 7–81%
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

30-year climate normals from BOM weather stations, averaged across rural lots in this council.

Annual rainfall
572 mm
Sub-humid
Mean max temp
24.2 °C
annual average daily max
Extreme heat days
32 / year
Hot summers
Frost days
39 / year
Frost-prone
Aridity index
0.32 P/PET
Semi-arid

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).

Carbon

Carbon profile

Above-ground biomass — woody vegetation already on the land.

16 tCO₂e/ha
mean across rural lots
8.88 M tCO₂e
total estimated
ESA CCI Biomass 2023, ~100m raster.
Vegetation

Cover profile

DEA Fractional Cover from Sentinel-2 (25m).

Green cover35%
Forest cover9%
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
1.8
km away
A bore is close — within walking distance for most lots.
Plan: Water Sharing Plan for the Lachlan Unregulated River 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 Parkes Shire Council intersecting each hazard or planning constraint.

Bushfire-prone 23%
Threatened ecological 13%
Groundwater vulnerable 9%
No exposure
Flood-prone · Heritage-listed · 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 Parkes Shire Council.

Connectivity

Roads, rail, schools

Classified road 3.0 km
Nearest school 11.0 km
Rail station 35.0 km
Energy

Grid + transmission

Substation 14.1 km · 132 kV
Transmission line 9.4 km · 132 kV
Transmission line a moderate distance — small-scale connection feasible.
Services

Health + water

Nearest hospital 13.1 km
Water treatment 14.2 km
Rural market
High confidence

Land sale activity

Registered RU-zoned sales across Parkes Shire Council, last 5 years.

$689k
per hectare (median)
119
sales (last 5 yrs)
Land use

Dominant rural land use

From ABARES Catchment Scale Land Use.

Cropping

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

Market trends

Council-wide pulse

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.

Price change · 12 mo
+231.0%
median price across all sales (residential + rural)
Price change · 3 mo
+122.5%
Sales volume · 12 mo
+81.6%
year-on-year change in sale count
Median weekly rent
$298
+19.6% y/y
Gross rental yield
6.02%
Days on market
47 days
15 active listings

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

Rural suburbs in Parkes Shire Council (17)

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
Mining & resources

Subsurface activity nearby

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

In mining title
0%
of rural lots
Nearest mine
123.5 km
mean across lots
Coal < 10 km
0%
of rural lots
Nearest critical mineral
29.0 km
Cu, Au
Land character
Geology Lachlan Orogen Wine GI Western Plains

About Parkes Shire Council

What's the dominant rural land use in Parkes Shire Council?

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.

What's the climate of Parkes Shire Council's rural land?

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.

What's the rural land market like in Parkes Shire Council?

Median rural rate across Parkes Shire Council is $689k/ha based on 119 registered RU-zoned sales in the last 5 years (high confidence).

What data sources are used?

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.