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Riverina

Snowy Valleys Council

11,557 rural lots across 71 suburbs. Dominant land use: Grazing modified pastures.

11,557
Rural lots
448,359 ha
Rural land
Limited ag use
Typical capability (class 6)
133 tCO₂e/ha
Mean above-ground biomass

Snowy Valleys 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 11,557 rural lots in Snowy Valleys Council.

Class 6 Limited ag use
Class 1–20%
Class 3–435%
Class 5–645%
Class 7–818%
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
923 mm
Moderate rainfall
Mean max temp
20.4 °C
annual average daily max
Extreme heat days
10 / year
Mild summers
Frost days
78 / year
Frost-prone
Aridity index
0.78 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.

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

Cover profile

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

Green cover61%
Forest cover22%
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
1.9
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 Snowy Valleys Council intersecting each hazard or planning constraint.

Bushfire-prone 91%
Landslide-prone 19%
Groundwater vulnerable 15%
Threatened ecological 8%
Heritage-listed 2%
Salinity-prone 1%
No exposure
Flood-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 Snowy Valleys Council.

Connectivity

Roads, rail, schools

Classified road 3.2 km
Nearest school 8.2 km
Rail station 29.7 km
Energy

Grid + transmission

Substation 9.6 km · 330 kV
Transmission line 4.6 km · 330 kV
Transmission line within commercial-solar range.
Services

Health + water

Nearest hospital 16.9 km
Water treatment 8.4 km
Rural market
High confidence

Land sale activity

Registered rural-zoned sales across Snowy Valleys Council, last 5 years.

$2.42M
per hectare (median)
254
sales (last 5 yrs)
Land use

Dominant rural land use

From the ABARES Catchment Scale Land Use classification.

Grazing modified pastures

The largest-share land-use category across rural lots in Snowy Valleys Council.

Market trends

Council-wide pulse

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

Price change · 12 mo
+69.8%
median price across all sales (residential + rural)
Price change · 3 mo
+29.3%
Sales volume · 12 mo
+265.1%
year-on-year change in sale count
Median weekly rent
$367
+14.2% y/y
Gross rental yield
4.01%
Days on market
30 days
4 active listings

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

Rural suburbs in Snowy Valleys Council (67)

Click any column header to sort.

Suburb Rural lots
Adelong 2729 1,248
Tumbarumba 2653 683
Rosewood 2652 645
Khancoban 2642 484
Batlow 2730 459
Talbingo 2720 392
Grahamstown 2729 383
Wondalga 2729 355
Gilmore 2720 342
Mount Adrah 2729 316
Blowering 2720 303
Jingellic 2642 239
Tumorrama 2720 237
Argalong 2720 233
Welaregang 2642 210
Gocup 2720 210
Bombowlee 2720 200
Glenroy 2640 194
Tooma 2642 194
Gadara 2720 187
Burra 2620 183
Brindabella 2611 174
Brungle 2722 173
Green Hills 2323 169
Goobarragandra 2720 165
Bringenbrong 3707 162
Sandy Gully 2729 161
Tumut 2720 159
Ournie 2640 158
Courabyra 2653 154
Mount Horeb 2729 148
Munderoo 2653 147
Brungle Creek 2722 143
Coppabella 2644 130
Yaven Creek 2729 130
Lacmalac 2720 126
Greg Greg 2642 120
Wyangle 2720 116
Kunama 2730 116
Maragle 2653 115
Taradale 2653 113
Minjary 2720 108
Mannus 2653 104
Califat 2729 100
Black Creek 2439 94
Bombowlee Creek 2720 81
Wereboldera 2720 74
Darlow 2729 73
Ellerslie 2648 72
Killimicat 2720 67
Tumut Plains 2720 65
Willigobung 2653 62
Westwood 2729 57
Windowie 2720 57
Little River 2720 55
Couragago 2720 49
Bangadang 2729 48
Sharps Creek 2729 43
Indi 2642 41
Wermatong 2720 32
Cooleys Creek 2729 31
Nurenmerenmong 2649 28
Mundongo 2720 24
Jones Bridge 2720 23
Lower Bago 2730 22
Laurel Hill 2649 22
Jagumba 2642 2
Mining & resources

Subsurface activity nearby

Active mining titles, coal-mine proximity and critical-mineral occurrences across Snowy Valleys Council.

In mining title
0%
of rural lots
Nearest mine
103.1 km
mean across lots
Coal < 10 km
1%
of rural lots
Nearest critical mineral
59.0 km
Fl
Land character
Geology Lachlan Orogen Wine region Gundagai

About Snowy Valleys Council

What's the dominant rural land use in Snowy Valleys Council?

Across 11,557 rural lots in Snowy Valleys Council, the dominant land use is Grazing modified pastures. Typical land capability is limited ag use.

What's the climate of Snowy Valleys Council's rural land?

Rural lots in Snowy Valleys Council average 923 mm annual rainfall, mean daily max temperature 20.4°C, and 78 frost days per year. Aridity index 0.78.

What's the rural land market like in Snowy Valleys Council?

The median rural rate across Snowy Valleys Council is $2.42M/ha based on 254 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.