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Riverina

Wagga Wagga City Council

9,147 rural lots across 54 suburbs. Dominant land use: Cropping.

9,147
Rural lots
445,532 ha
Rural land
Good grazing
Typical capability (class 4)
24 tCO₂e/ha
Mean above-ground biomass

Wagga Wagga City 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 9,147 rural lots in Wagga Wagga City Council.

Class 4 Good grazing
Class 1–20%
Class 3–469%
Class 5–624%
Class 7–87%
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
587 mm
Sub-humid
Mean max temp
22.6 °C
annual average daily max
Extreme heat days
22 / year
Warm summers
Frost days
50 / year
Frost-prone
Aridity index
0.38 P/PET
Semi-arid

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.

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

Cover profile

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

Green cover51%
Forest cover6%
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
1.1
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 Wagga Wagga City Council intersecting each hazard or planning constraint.

Bushfire-prone 90%
Threatened ecological 6%
Heritage-listed 2%
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 Wagga Wagga City Council.

Connectivity

Roads, rail, schools

Classified road 4.0 km
Nearest school 10.2 km
Rail station 21.1 km
Energy

Grid + transmission

Substation 12.9 km · 330 kV
Transmission line 4.7 km · 330 kV
Transmission line within commercial-solar range.
Services

Health + water

Nearest hospital 21.5 km
Water treatment 14.0 km
Rural market
High confidence

Land sale activity

Registered rural-zoned sales across Wagga Wagga City Council, last 5 years.

$1.79M
per hectare (median)
331
sales (last 5 yrs)
Land use

Dominant rural land use

From the ABARES Catchment Scale Land Use classification.

Cropping

The largest-share land-use category across rural lots in Wagga Wagga City Council.

Market trends

Council-wide pulse

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

Price change · 12 mo
+325.8%
median price across all sales (residential + rural)
Price change · 3 mo
+152.0%
Sales volume · 12 mo
+178.3%
year-on-year change in sale count
Median weekly rent
$421
+11.7% y/y
Gross rental yield
4.22%
Days on market
40 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 Wagga Wagga City Council (53)

Click any column header to sort.

Suburb Rural lots
Lockhart 2656 1,228
Ganmain 2702 1,188
The Rock 2655 1,030
Tarcutta 2652 753
Uranquinty 2652 687
Oura 2650 634
North Wagga Wagga 2650 613
Humula 2652 555
Mangoplah 2652 494
Marrar 2652 487
Harefield 2650 451
Matong 2652 419
Ladysmith 2652 353
Galore 2650 336
Collingullie 2650 320
Currawarna 2650 300
Kyeamba 2650 240
Book Book 2650 228
Gregadoo 2652 224
Big Springs 2650 221
Oberne Creek 2650 218
Borambola 2650 217
Downside 2650 140
Euberta 2650 138
Yarragundry 2650 136
Alfredtown 2650 135
The Gap 2650 135
Brookdale 2656 129
Brucedale 2650 120
Gumly Gumly 2652 115
Eunanoreenya 2650 110
Pulletop 2650 104
Burrandana 2650 103
Bulgary 2650 95
Lake Albert 2650 93
Forest Hill 2651 90
Gelston Park 2650 88
Maxwell 2650 87
Rowan 2650 62
Cartwrights Hill 2650 60
East Wagga Wagga 2650 59
Moorong 2650 53
Gobbagombalin 2650 51
Belfrayden 2652 29
Dhulura 2650 28
Kapooka 2661 19
Wallacetown 2650 14
Springvale 2650 13
Wagga Wagga 2650 9
Lloyd 2650 8
Bomen 2650 6
Charles Sturt University 2678 3
San Isidore 2650 1
Land character
Geology Lachlan Orogen Wine region Riverina

About Wagga Wagga City Council

What's the dominant rural land use in Wagga Wagga City Council?

Across 9,147 rural lots in Wagga Wagga City Council, the dominant land use is Cropping. Typical land capability is good grazing.

What's the climate of Wagga Wagga City Council's rural land?

Rural lots in Wagga Wagga City Council average 587 mm annual rainfall, mean daily max temperature 22.6°C, and 50 frost days per year. Aridity index 0.38.

What's the rural land market like in Wagga Wagga City Council?

The median rural rate across Wagga Wagga City Council is $1.79M/ha based on 331 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.