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Central West

Warrumbungle Shire Council

11,903 rural lots across 31 suburbs. Dominant land use: Grazing native vegetation.

11,903
Rural lots
1.05 M ha
Rural land
Good grazing
Typical capability (class 4)
43 tCO₂e/ha
Mean above-ground biomass

Warrumbungle 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 11,903 rural lots in Warrumbungle Shire Council.

Class 4 Good grazing
Class 1–28%
Class 3–446%
Class 5–643%
Class 7–83%
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
683 mm
Sub-humid
Mean max temp
23.8 °C
annual average daily max
Extreme heat days
21 / year
Warm summers
Frost days
49 / year
Frost-prone
Aridity index
0.40 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.

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

Cover profile

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

Green cover37%
Forest cover23%
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
0.9
km away
A bore is close — within walking distance for most lots.
Plan: Water Sharing Plan for the Castlereagh 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 Warrumbungle Shire Council intersecting each hazard or planning constraint.

Bushfire-prone 93%
Groundwater vulnerable 60%
Recharge area or shallow aquifer.
Threatened ecological 12%
Heritage-listed 1%
No exposure
Flood-prone · 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 Warrumbungle Shire Council.

Connectivity

Roads, rail, schools

Classified road 3.5 km
Nearest school 13.0 km
Rail station 42.8 km
Energy

Grid + transmission

Substation 41.8 km · 330 kV
Transmission line 22.2 km · 500 kV
Transmission line is far — energy export would need on-site storage or a feeder upgrade.
Services

Health + water

Nearest hospital 24.2 km
Water treatment 20.3 km
Rural market
High confidence

Land sale activity

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

$837k
per hectare (median)
182
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 Warrumbungle Shire Council.

Market trends

Council-wide pulse

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

Price change · 12 mo
+92.5%
median price across all sales (residential + rural)
Price change · 3 mo
+344.2%
Sales volume · 12 mo
+99.0%
year-on-year change in sale count
Median weekly rent
$251
+22.7% y/y
Gross rental yield
5.80%
Days on market
47 days
6 active listings

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

Rural suburbs in Warrumbungle Shire Council (31)

Click any column header to sort.

Suburb Rural lots
Coolah 2843 1,369
Cassilis 2329 1,320
Binnaway 2395 1,301
Coonabarabran 2357 1,167
Dunedoo 2844 1,124
Baradine 2396 1,052
Tambar Springs 2381 962
Mendooran 2842 956
Leadville 2844 779
Elong Elong 2831 520
Cobbora 2844 470
Uarbry 2329 381
Bugaldie 2357 346
Tallawang 2852 328
Ulamambri 2357 311
Premer 2381 310
Purlewaugh 2357 304
Nombi 2379 270
Weetaliba 2395 240
Kenebri 2396 200
Rocky Glen 2357 170
Goolhi 2379 167
Mollyan 2842 163
Merrygoen 2831 162
Gowang 2357 161
Birriwa 2844 149
Yarragrin 2842 136
Neilrex 2831 126
Goorianawa 2396 120
Dandry 2357 62
Goonoo Forest 2830 14
Mining & resources

Subsurface activity nearby

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

In mining title
0%
of rural lots
Nearest mine
51.4 km
mean across lots
Coal < 10 km
1%
of rural lots
Nearest critical mineral
126.6 km
REO, Zr, (U, Y2O3, ZrO2, Ta2O5, Nb2O5, HfO2, Hf, U3O8, Nb, Ta, Y)
Land character
Geology Lachlan Orogen Wine region Northern Slopes

About Warrumbungle Shire Council

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

Across 11,903 rural lots in Warrumbungle Shire Council, the dominant land use is Grazing native vegetation. Typical land capability is good grazing.

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

Rural lots in Warrumbungle Shire Council average 683 mm annual rainfall, mean daily max temperature 23.8°C, and 49 frost days per year. Aridity index 0.40.

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

The median rural rate across Warrumbungle Shire Council is $837k/ha based on 182 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.