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Greater Sydney

Penrith City Council

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

4,079
Rural lots
9,392 ha
Rural land
Limited ag use
Typical capability (class 5)
83 tCO₂e/ha
Mean above-ground biomass

Penrith City Council — rural suburbs

© NSW Government · Digital Earth Australia · CSIRO

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 land-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

Long-term climate averages 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 area, drawn from Bureau of Meteorology 30-year normals.

Carbon

Carbon profile

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

83 tCO₂e/ha
mean across rural lots
767,782 tCO₂e
total estimated
Satellite above-ground biomass, summarised per lot.
Vegetation

Cover profile

Digital Earth Australia Fractional Cover, from Sentinel-2 imagery.

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

$1.54M
per hectare (median)
85
sales (last 5 yrs)
Land use

Dominant rural land use

From the ABARES Catchment Scale Land Use classification.

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 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.

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 region 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. Typical land capability is limited ag use.

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.

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

The median rural rate across Penrith City Council is $1.54M/ha based on 85 registered rural-zoned sales in the last 5 years.

What data sources are used?

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.