7,172 rural lots across 82 suburbs. Dominant land use: Grazing modified pastures.
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 7,172 rural lots in Port Macquarie-Hastings 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 Port Macquarie-Hastings Council intersecting each hazard or planning constraint.
Mean distances from rural lots to roads, schools, hospitals, transmission and substations across Port Macquarie-Hastings Council.
Registered RU-zoned sales across Port Macquarie-Hastings Council, last 5 years.
From ABARES Catchment Scale Land Use.
The largest-share land-use category across rural lots in Port Macquarie-Hastings Council.
12-month price and volume movement, rent and yield. Reflects the broader market across Port Macquarie-Hastings 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).
Active mining titles, coal-mine proximity and critical-mineral occurrences across Port Macquarie-Hastings Council.
Other rural councils in the same region.
Across 7,172 rural lots in Port Macquarie-Hastings Council, the dominant land use is Grazing modified pastures. The typical land-capability class is Limited ag use — from the NSW DPI Land & Soil Capability v4 polygon layer.
Rural lots in Port Macquarie-Hastings Council average 1,343 mm annual rainfall, mean daily max temperature 23.4°C, and 5 frost days per year. Aridity index 1.06 — drawn from BOM 30-year normals.
Median rural rate across Port Macquarie-Hastings Council is $214k/ha based on 128 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.