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New England

Walcha Council

6,373 rural lots across 8 suburbs. Dominant land use: Grazing modified pastures.

6,373
Rural lots
496,125 ha
Rural land
Limited ag use
Typical capability (class 5)
129 tCO₂e/ha
Mean above-ground biomass

Walcha 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 6,373 rural lots in Walcha Council.

Class 5 Limited ag use
Class 1–20%
Class 3–449%
Class 5–643%
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
868 mm
Moderate rainfall
Mean max temp
19.1 °C
annual average daily max
Extreme heat days
1 / year
Cool summers
Frost days
71 / year
Frost-prone
Aridity index
0.80 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.

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

Cover profile

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

Green cover55%
Forest cover20%
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
2.6
km away
A bore is within easy driving — typical of farming country.
Plan: Water Sharing Plan for the Macleay Unregulated and Alluvial Water Sources 2016

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

Risks & constraints

Hazard exposure across rural lots

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

Bushfire-prone 100%
Threatened ecological 21%
No exposure
Flood-prone · Groundwater vulnerable · Heritage-listed · 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 Walcha Council.

Connectivity

Roads, rail, schools

Classified road 5.9 km
Nearest school 15.2 km
Rail station 35.0 km
Energy

Grid + transmission

Substation 23.0 km · 330 kV
Transmission line 21.9 km · 330 kV
Transmission line is far — energy export would need on-site storage or a feeder upgrade.
Services

Health + water

Nearest hospital 28.2 km
Water treatment 22.4 km
Rural market
Low confidence

Land sale activity

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

$37k
per hectare (median)
6
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 Walcha Council.

Market trends

Council-wide pulse

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

Price change · 12 mo
+8.1%
median price across all sales (residential + rural)
Price change · 3 mo
-31.0%
Sales volume · 12 mo
+101.5%
year-on-year change in sale count
Median weekly rent
$291
+2.9% y/y
Gross rental yield
2.71%
Days on market
47 days
8 active listings

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

Rural suburbs in Walcha Council (8)

Click any column header to sort.

Suburb Rural lots
Walcha 2354 3,998
Bendemeer 2355 1,109
Nowendoc 2354 798
Woolbrook 2354 740
Yarrowitch 2354 559
Niangala 2354 479
Walcha Road 2354 264
Wollun 2354 110
Land character
Geology New England Orogen Wine region New England Australia

About Walcha Council

What's the dominant rural land use in Walcha Council?

Across 6,373 rural lots in Walcha Council, the dominant land use is Grazing modified pastures. Typical land capability is limited ag use.

What's the climate of Walcha Council's rural land?

Rural lots in Walcha Council average 868 mm annual rainfall, mean daily max temperature 19.1°C, and 71 frost days per year. Aridity index 0.80.

What's the rural land market like in Walcha Council?

The median rural rate across Walcha Council is $37k/ha based on 6 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.