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Central West

Weddin Shire Council

5,440 rural lots across 13 suburbs. Dominant land use: Cropping.

5,440
Rural lots
314,797 ha
Rural land
Good grazing
Typical capability (class 4)
25 tCO₂e/ha
Mean above-ground biomass

Weddin 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 5,440 rural lots in Weddin Shire Council.

Class 4 Good grazing
Class 1–20%
Class 3–478%
Class 5–616%
Class 7–86%
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
567 mm
Sub-humid
Mean max temp
23.4 °C
annual average daily max
Extreme heat days
27 / year
Warm summers
Frost days
49 / year
Frost-prone
Aridity index
0.35 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.

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

Cover profile

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

Green cover44%
Forest cover8%
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
1.2
km away
A bore is close — within walking distance for most lots.
Plan: Water Sharing Plan for the Lachlan Unregulated River Water Sources 2026

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

Risks & constraints

Hazard exposure across rural lots

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

Bushfire-prone 88%
Groundwater vulnerable 24%
Threatened ecological 13%
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 Weddin Shire Council.

Connectivity

Roads, rail, schools

Classified road 3.7 km
Nearest school 9.1 km
Rail station 73.1 km
Energy

Grid + transmission

Substation 21.7 km · 132 kV
Transmission line 17.8 km · 132 kV
Transmission line is far — energy export would need on-site storage or a feeder upgrade.
Services

Health + water

Nearest hospital 24.5 km
Water treatment 23.4 km
Rural market
Medium confidence

Land sale activity

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

$150k
per hectare (median)
14
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 Weddin Shire Council.

Market trends

Council-wide pulse

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

Price change · 12 mo
+53.9%
median price across all sales (residential + rural)
Price change · 3 mo
+185.0%
Sales volume · 12 mo
+114.5%
year-on-year change in sale count
Median weekly rent
$284
+19.0% y/y
Gross rental yield
6.33%
Days on market
41 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 Weddin Shire Council (13)

Click any column header to sort.

Suburb Rural lots
Grenfell 2810 1,639
Caragabal 2810 1,125
Greenethorpe 2809 556
Bribbaree 2594 491
Quandialla 2721 460
Wirrinya 2871 451
Bumbaldry 2794 363
Warraderry 2810 291
Bimbi 2810 259
Pullabooka 2810 153
Glenelg 2810 152
Piney Range 2810 142
Pinnacle 2810 91
Land character
Geology Lachlan Orogen Wine region Central Ranges

About Weddin Shire Council

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

Across 5,440 rural lots in Weddin Shire Council, the dominant land use is Cropping. Typical land capability is good grazing.

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

Rural lots in Weddin Shire Council average 567 mm annual rainfall, mean daily max temperature 23.4°C, and 49 frost days per year. Aridity index 0.35.

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

The median rural rate across Weddin Shire Council is $150k/ha based on 14 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.