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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
679,705 ha
Rural land
Limited ag use
Typical capability (LSC class 5)
37 tCO₂e/ha
Mean above-ground biomass

Walcha Council — rural suburbs

© NSW Government · DEA · CSIRO TERN

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 NSW DPI Land & Soil 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

30-year climate normals from BOM weather stations, averaged 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 suburb, drawn from BOM 30-year normals (~1,820 weather stations, KNN to lot centroids).

Carbon

Carbon profile

Above-ground biomass — woody vegetation already on the land.

37 tCO₂e/ha
mean across rural lots
62.68 M tCO₂e
total estimated
ESA CCI Biomass 2023, ~100m raster.
Vegetation

Cover profile

DEA Fractional Cover from Sentinel-2 (25m).

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 RU-zoned sales across Walcha Council, last 5 years.

$27k
per hectare (median)
6
sales (last 5 yrs)
Land use

Dominant rural land use

From ABARES Catchment Scale Land Use.

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 $/ha 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. Capability is the median LSC class across rural lots; carbon is mean tCO₂e/ha; $/ha is the median 5-year rural sale rate (H/M/L pill = data confidence).

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 GI 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. The typical land-capability class is Limited ag use — from the NSW DPI Land & Soil Capability v4 polygon layer.

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 — drawn from BOM 30-year normals.

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

Median rural rate across Walcha Council is $27k/ha based on 6 registered RU-zoned sales in the last 5 years (low confidence).

What data sources are used?

Land capability is the NSW DPI Land & Soil Capability v4 polygon layer. Carbon stock is the ESA CCI Biomass 2023 satellite product (~100m). Vegetation cover (green / forest) is DEA Fractional Cover (Sentinel-2). Climate is BOM 30-year normals from ~1,820 weather stations. Rural market is from registered NSW property sales filtered to RU-zoned lots.