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Hunter

Port Stephens Council

4,431 rural lots across 36 suburbs. Dominant land use: Residential and farm infrastructure.

4,431
Rural lots
34,903 ha
Rural land
Limited ag use
Typical capability (class 5)
102 tCO₂e/ha
Mean above-ground biomass

Port Stephens 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 4,431 rural lots in Port Stephens Council.

Class 5 Limited ag use
Class 1–20%
Class 3–442%
Class 5–653%
Class 7–85%
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
1,121 mm
Wet
Mean max temp
23.5 °C
annual average daily max
Extreme heat days
8 / year
Mild summers
Frost days
1 / year
Frost-free
Aridity index
0.76 P/PET
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.

102 tCO₂e/ha
mean across rural lots
3.54 M tCO₂e
total estimated
Satellite above-ground biomass, summarised per lot.
Vegetation

Cover profile

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

Green cover62%
Forest cover29%
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
0.9
km away
A bore is close — within walking distance for most lots.
Plan: Water Sharing Plan for the Hunter Unregulated and Alluvial Water Sources 2022

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

Risks & constraints

Hazard exposure across rural lots

Share of rural lots in Port Stephens Council intersecting each hazard or planning constraint.

Acid-sulfate soils 100%
Bushfire-prone 91%
Coastal environment 39%
Threatened ecological 27%
TEC mapping — clearing constraints apply.
Flood-prone 8%
Heritage-listed 5%
No exposure
Groundwater vulnerable · Salinity-prone · Landslide-prone · Mine subsidence · Contamination history · In mining title
Infrastructure

Access and grid connection

Mean distances from rural lots to roads, schools, hospitals, transmission and substations across Port Stephens Council.

Connectivity

Roads, rail, schools

Classified road 1.5 km
Nearest school 2.9 km
Rail station 16.6 km
Energy

Grid + transmission

Substation 6.1 km · 132 kV
Transmission line 4.7 km · 132 kV
Transmission line within commercial-solar range.
Services

Health + water

Nearest hospital 16.2 km
Water treatment 5.0 km
Rural market
High confidence

Land sale activity

Registered rural-zoned sales across Port Stephens Council, last 5 years.

$758k
per hectare (median)
127
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 Port Stephens Council.

Market trends

Council-wide pulse

12-month price and volume movement, rent and yield. Reflects the broader market across Port Stephens Council; the rural-only rate above is the rural benchmark.

Price change · 12 mo
+10.4%
median price across all sales (residential + rural)
Price change · 3 mo
-3.5%
Sales volume · 12 mo
+99.1%
year-on-year change in sale count
Median weekly rent
$575
+12.0% y/y
Gross rental yield
2.86%
Days on market
51 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 Port Stephens Council (35)

Click any column header to sort.

Suburb Rural lots
Karuah 2324 765
Salt Ash 2318 463
Fullerton Cove 2318 359
Hinton 2321 287
Williamtown 2318 266
Woodville 2321 210
Seaham 2324 209
Glen Oak 2320 208
Bobs Farm 2316 180
East Seaham 2324 179
Swan Bay 2324 178
Anna Bay 2316 159
Duns Creek 2321 157
Nelsons Plains 2324 123
Medowie 2318 120
Eagleton 2324 90
Butterwick 2321 77
Ferodale 2318 74
Wallalong 2320 70
Raymond Terrace 2324 64
Osterley 2324 50
Tomago 2322 47
Heatherbrae 2324 45
Twelve Mile Creek 2324 41
Balickera 2324 33
One Mile 2316 29
Campvale 2318 19
Oyster Cove 2318 17
Tanilba Bay 2319 17
Brandy Hill 2324 10
Nelson Bay 2315 5
Taylors Beach 2316 4
Mallabula 2319 3
Lemon Tree Passage 2319 2
Fern Bay 2295 1
Mining & resources

Subsurface activity nearby

Active mining titles, coal-mine proximity and critical-mineral occurrences across Port Stephens Council.

In mining title
0%
of rural lots
Nearest mine
13.4 km
mean across lots
Coal < 10 km
48%
of rural lots
Nearest critical mineral
238.2 km
Au, (W, WO3, Sb)
Land character
Geology New England Orogen Wine region Northern Rivers

About Port Stephens Council

What's the dominant rural land use in Port Stephens Council?

Across 4,431 rural lots in Port Stephens Council, the dominant land use is Residential and farm infrastructure. Typical land capability is limited ag use.

What's the climate of Port Stephens Council's rural land?

Rural lots in Port Stephens Council average 1,121 mm annual rainfall, mean daily max temperature 23.5°C, and 1 frost days per year. Aridity index 0.76.

What's the rural land market like in Port Stephens Council?

The median rural rate across Port Stephens Council is $758k/ha based on 127 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.