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Southern Tablelands

Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional Council

12,061 rural lots across 64 suburbs. Dominant land use: Grazing native vegetation.

12,061
Rural lots
373,370 ha
Rural land
Limited ag use
Typical capability (class 5)
127 tCO₂e/ha
Mean above-ground biomass

Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional 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 12,061 rural lots in Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional Council.

Class 5 Limited ag use
Class 1–20%
Class 3–430%
Class 5–660%
Class 7–88%
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
743 mm
Moderate rainfall
Mean max temp
18.9 °C
annual average daily max
Extreme heat days
3 / year
Cool summers
Frost days
93 / year
Frost-prone
Aridity index
0.66 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.

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

Cover profile

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

Green cover52%
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
1.7
km away
A bore is close — within walking distance for most lots.
Plan: Water Sharing Plan for the Murrumbidgee Unregulated River Water Sources 2025

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

Risks & constraints

Hazard exposure across rural lots

Share of rural lots in Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional Council intersecting each hazard or planning constraint.

Bushfire-prone 98%
Heritage-listed 16%
Threatened ecological 15%
No exposure
Flood-prone · 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 Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional Council.

Connectivity

Roads, rail, schools

Classified road 4.5 km
Nearest school 12.5 km
Rail station 30.9 km
Energy

Grid + transmission

Substation 19.4 km · 330 kV
Transmission line 15.0 km · 330 kV
Transmission line is far — energy export would need on-site storage or a feeder upgrade.
Services

Health + water

Nearest hospital 20.9 km
Water treatment 14.0 km
Rural market
High confidence

Land sale activity

Registered rural-zoned sales across Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional Council, last 5 years.

$911k
per hectare (median)
128
sales (last 5 yrs)
Land use

Dominant rural land use

From the ABARES Catchment Scale Land Use classification.

Grazing native vegetation

The largest-share land-use category across rural lots in Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional Council.

Market trends

Council-wide pulse

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

Price change · 12 mo
+70.1% ↑
median price across all sales (residential + rural)
Price change · 3 mo
+14.1% ↑
Sales volume · 12 mo
+157.2% ↑
year-on-year change in sale count
Median weekly rent
$508
+10.7% y/y
Gross rental yield
3.75%
Days on market
34 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 Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional Council (55)

Click any column header to sort.

Suburb Rural lots↓
Environa 2620 1,691
Captains Flat 2623 916
Braidwood 2622 701
Araluen 2622 667
Bungendore 2621 662
Majors Creek 2622 602
Tarago 2580 459
Oallen 2580 307
Larbert 2622 286
Krawarree 2622 263
Mongarlowe 2622 261
Jembaicumbene 2622 257
Durran Durra 2622 241
Neringla 2622 238
Nerriga 2622 215
Bombay 2622 207
Mount Fairy 2580 199
Reidsdale 2622 199
Charleys Forest 2622 194
Hoskinstown 2621 183
Rossi 2621 163
Mayfield 2304 159
Tomboye 2622 158
Mulloon 2622 153
Harolds Cross 2622 143
Jinden 2622 142
Marlowe 2622 136
Bendoura 2622 134
Boro 2622 133
Monga 2622 125
Warri 2622 122
Carwoola 2620 118
Primrose Valley 2621 110
Wyanbene 2622 99
Wamboin 2620 96
Hereford Hall 2622 93
Jerrabattgulla 2622 91
Ballalaba 2622 88
Forbes Creek 2621 86
Wog Wog 2622 82
Manar 2622 66
Snowball 2622 63
Kindervale 2622 61
Urila 2620 57
Yarrow 2620 54
Googong 2620 49
Farringdon 2622 47
Berlang 2622 37
Corang 2622 27
Northangera 2622 25
Palerang 2622 18
Tralee 2620 16
Royalla 2620 15
Jerrabomberra 2619 3
Karabar 2620 3
Mining & resources

Subsurface activity nearby

Active mining titles, coal-mine proximity and critical-mineral occurrences across Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional Council.

In mining title
0%
of rural lots
Nearest mine
44.4 km
mean across lots
Coal < 10 km
1%
of rural lots
Nearest critical mineral
27.5 km
Zn, Cu, Pb
Land character
Geology Lachlan Orogen Wine region Southern New South Wales

Nearby councils in Southern Tablelands

Other rural councils in the same region.

Yass Valley Council
8,921 rural lots · Good grazing
Wingecarribee Shire Council
2,631 rural lots · Good grazing

About Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional Council

What's the dominant rural land use in Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional Council? ▾

Across 12,061 rural lots in Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional Council, the dominant land use is Grazing native vegetation. Typical land capability is limited ag use.

What's the climate of Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional Council's rural land? ▾

Rural lots in Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional Council average 743 mm annual rainfall, mean daily max temperature 18.9°C, and 93 frost days per year. Aridity index 0.66.

What's the rural land market like in Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional Council? ▾

The median rural rate across Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional Council is $911k/ha based on 128 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.