754,627 rural NSW lots pre-computed | 183 data fields per property | Carbon credit estimates for every lot | 159+ regulatory obligations from 16 regulations | Soil, climate, water, vegetation intelligence | Know what you CAN do with your land | Reports in ~60 seconds | 754,627 rural NSW lots pre-computed | 183 data fields per property | Carbon credit estimates for every lot | 159+ regulatory obligations from 16 regulations | Soil, climate, water, vegetation intelligence | Know what you CAN do with your land | Reports in ~60 seconds |
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Penrith City Council

4,079 rural lots across 14 suburbs. Dominant land use: Residential and farm infrastructure.

4,079
Rural lots
13,614 ha
Rural land
Limited ag use
Typical capability (LSC class 5)
82 tCO₂e/ha
Mean above-ground biomass

Penrith City 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 4,079 rural lots in Penrith City Council.

Class 5 Limited ag use
Class 1–20%
Class 3–423%
Class 5–677%
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

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

Annual rainfall
755 mm
Moderate rainfall
Mean max temp
24.3 °C
annual average daily max
Extreme heat days
18 / year
Warm summers
Frost days
12 / year
Light frost
Aridity index
0.52 P/PET
Sub-humid

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.

82 tCO₂e/ha
mean across rural lots
767,782 tCO₂e
total estimated
ESA CCI Biomass 2023, ~100m raster.
Vegetation

Cover profile

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

Green cover49%
Forest cover27%
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
0.6
km away
A bore is close — within walking distance for most lots.
Plan: Water Sharing Plan for the Greater Metropolitan Region Unregulated River Water Sources 2023

Source: NSW DCCEEW Water Sharing Plans · NSW DCCEEW Groundwater Bores Register.

Risks & constraints

Hazard exposure across rural lots

Share of rural lots in Penrith City Council intersecting each hazard or planning constraint.

Bushfire-prone 84%
Threatened ecological 34%
TEC mapping — clearing constraints apply.
Flood-prone 1%
Heritage-listed 1%
No exposure
Groundwater vulnerable · 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 Penrith City Council.

Connectivity

Roads, rail, schools

Classified road 540 m
Nearest school 1.6 km
Rail station 5.2 km
Energy

Grid + transmission

Substation 5.3 km · 500 kV
Transmission line 2.9 km · 500 kV
Transmission line within commercial-solar range.
Services

Health + water

Nearest hospital 9.5 km
Water treatment 3.2 km
Rural market
High confidence

Land sale activity

Registered RU-zoned sales across Penrith City Council, last 5 years.

$1.06M
per hectare (median)
101
sales (last 5 yrs)
Land use

Dominant rural land use

From ABARES Catchment Scale Land Use.

Residential and farm infrastructure

The largest-share land-use category across rural lots in Penrith City Council.

Market trends

Council-wide pulse

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

Price change · 12 mo
-3.9%
median price across all sales (residential + rural)
Price change · 3 mo
-9.5%
Sales volume · 12 mo
-16.4%
year-on-year change in sale count
Median weekly rent
$621
+5.3% y/y
Gross rental yield
2.30%
Days on market
70 days
6 active listings

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

Rural suburbs in Penrith City Council (13)

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
Londonderry 2753 1,272
Llandilo 2747 591
Orchard Hills 2748 590
Kemps Creek 2178 527
Berkshire Park 2765 343
Mulgoa 2745 224
Castlereagh 2749 217
Agnes Banks 2753 201
Cranebrook 2749 128
Luddenham 2745 79
Regentville 2745 60
Jamisontown 2750 18
Glenmore Park 2745 2
Mining & resources

Subsurface activity nearby

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

In mining title
0%
of rural lots
Nearest mine
9.3 km
mean across lots
Coal < 10 km
39%
of rural lots
Nearest critical mineral
109.4 km
Au, (Ag, Fe)
Land character
Geology Lachlan Orogen Wine GI South Coast

About Penrith City Council

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

Across 4,079 rural lots in Penrith City Council, the dominant land use is Residential and farm infrastructure. The typical land-capability class is Limited ag use — from the NSW DPI Land & Soil Capability v4 polygon layer.

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

Rural lots in Penrith City Council average 755 mm annual rainfall, mean daily max temperature 24.3°C, and 12 frost days per year. Aridity index 0.52 — drawn from BOM 30-year normals.

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

Median rural rate across Penrith City Council is $1.06M/ha based on 101 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.