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New England

Tenterfield Shire Council

12,249 rural lots across 43 suburbs. Dominant land use: Grazing native vegetation.

12,249
Rural lots
596,632 ha
Rural land
Limited ag use
Typical capability (class 5)
n/a
Carbon not mapped here

Tenterfield Shire 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 12,249 rural lots in Tenterfield Shire Council.

Class 5 Limited ag use
Class 1–20%
Class 3–445%
Class 5–640%
Class 7–815%
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
835 mm
Moderate rainfall
Mean max temp
22.4 °C
annual average daily max
Extreme heat days
3 / year
Cool summers
Frost days
52 / year
Frost-prone
Aridity index
0.57 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.

Above-ground biomass is not mapped across this council's rural lots — typical of small coastal or inner-urban councils outside the satellite biomass product's coverage.
Vegetation

Cover profile

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

Green cover50%
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
2.3
km away
A bore is within easy driving — typical of farming country.
Plan: Water Sharing Plan for the NSW Border Rivers Unregulated River Water Sources 2024

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

Risks & constraints

Hazard exposure across rural lots

Share of rural lots in Tenterfield Shire Council intersecting each hazard or planning constraint.

Bushfire-prone 84%
Threatened ecological 5%
Heritage-listed 3%
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 Tenterfield Shire Council.

Connectivity

Roads, rail, schools

Classified road 3.7 km
Nearest school 13.2 km
Rail station 32.4 km
Energy

Grid + transmission

Substation 20.7 km · 330 kV
Transmission line 16.4 km · 330 kV
Transmission line is far — energy export would need on-site storage or a feeder upgrade.
Services

Health + water

Nearest hospital 18.3 km
Water treatment 13.8 km
Rural market
High confidence

Land sale activity

Registered rural-zoned sales across Tenterfield Shire Council, last 5 years.

$836k
per hectare (median)
456
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 Tenterfield Shire Council.

Market trends

Council-wide pulse

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

Price change · 12 mo
+81.7%
median price across all sales (residential + rural)
Price change · 3 mo
+51.8%
Sales volume · 12 mo
+49.7%
year-on-year change in sale count
Median weekly rent
$376
+21.1% y/y
Gross rental yield
4.67%
Days on market
42 days
17 active listings

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

Rural suburbs in Tenterfield Shire Council (41)

Click any column header to sort.

Suburb Rural lots
Tenterfield 2372 4,560
Emmaville 2371 1,157
Deepwater 2371 991
Tabulam 2469 790
Urbenville 2475 489
Bolivia 2372 440
Legume 2476 401
Drake 2470 367
Mole River 2372 345
Woodenbong 2476 341
Drake Village 2469 316
Maryland 2287 296
Jennings 4383 291
Torrington 2371 288
Koreelah 2476 268
Liston 2372 252
Woodside 2372 230
Tarban 2372 221
Sandy Flat 2372 220
Stannum 2371 184
Dumaresq Valley 2372 180
Upper Tooloom 2475 179
Sandy Hill 2372 175
Willsons Downfall 2372 160
Boorook 2372 151
Cullendore 2372 150
Timbarra 2372 137
Silent Grove 2372 100
Rivertree 2372 94
Mingoola 2372 94
Boonoo Boonoo 2372 73
Lower Acacia Creek 2476 70
Ruby Creek 4380 65
Undercliffe 2206 58
Bookookoorara 2372 53
Amosfield 4380 51
Wylie Creek 2372 50
Cottonvale 4375 46
Acacia Creek 2476 38
Carrolls Creek 2372 35
Forest Land 2372 15
Mining & resources

Subsurface activity nearby

Active mining titles, coal-mine proximity and critical-mineral occurrences across Tenterfield Shire Council.

In mining title
0%
of rural lots
Nearest mine
53.6 km
mean across lots
Coal < 10 km
10%
of rural lots
Nearest critical mineral
55.4 km
F, Toz
Land character
Geology New England Orogen Wine region New England Australia

About Tenterfield Shire Council

What's the dominant rural land use in Tenterfield Shire Council?

Across 12,249 rural lots in Tenterfield Shire Council, the dominant land use is Grazing native vegetation. Typical land capability is limited ag use.

What's the climate of Tenterfield Shire Council's rural land?

Rural lots in Tenterfield Shire Council average 835 mm annual rainfall, mean daily max temperature 22.4°C, and 52 frost days per year. Aridity index 0.57.

What's the rural land market like in Tenterfield Shire Council?

The median rural rate across Tenterfield Shire Council is $836k/ha based on 456 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.