754,627 rural NSW lots pre-computed | 183 data fields per property | Carbon credit estimates for every lot | 159+ regulatory obligations from 16 regulations | Soil, climate, water, vegetation intelligence | Know what you CAN do with your land | Reports in ~60 seconds | 754,627 rural NSW lots pre-computed | 183 data fields per property | Carbon credit estimates for every lot | 159+ regulatory obligations from 16 regulations | Soil, climate, water, vegetation intelligence | Know what you CAN do with your land | Reports in ~60 seconds |
Southern Tablelands

Wingecarribee Shire Council

2,631 rural lots across 36 suburbs. Dominant land use: Residential and farm infrastructure.

2,631
Rural lots
68,586 ha
Rural land
Good grazing
Typical capability (LSC class 4)
70 tCO₂e/ha
Mean above-ground biomass

Wingecarribee Shire 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 2,631 rural lots in Wingecarribee Shire Council.

Class 4 Good grazing
Class 1–20%
Class 3–466%
Class 5–625%
Class 7–89%
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
840 mm
Moderate rainfall
Mean max temp
19.6 °C
annual average daily max
Extreme heat days
4 / year
Cool summers
Frost days
35 / year
Frost-prone
Aridity index
0.69 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.

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

Cover profile

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

Green cover61%
Forest cover43%
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
0.5
km away
A bore is close — within walking distance for most lots.
Plan: Water Sharing Plan for the Greater Metropolitan Region Unregulated River Water Sources 2023

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

Risks & constraints

Hazard exposure across rural lots

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

Bushfire-prone 96%
Threatened ecological 9%
Mine subsidence 2%
Flood-prone 1%
Heritage-listed 1%
No exposure
Groundwater vulnerable · Salinity-prone · Landslide-prone · 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 Wingecarribee Shire Council.

Connectivity

Roads, rail, schools

Classified road 2.5 km
Nearest school 5.6 km
Rail station 6.9 km
Energy

Grid + transmission

Substation 9.5 km · 330 kV
Transmission line 4.3 km · 330 kV
Transmission line within commercial-solar range.
Services

Health + water

Nearest hospital 16.7 km
Water treatment 7.8 km
Rural market
High confidence

Land sale activity

Registered RU-zoned sales across Wingecarribee Shire Council, last 5 years.

$310k
per hectare (median)
88
sales (last 5 yrs)
Land use

Dominant rural land use

From ABARES Catchment Scale Land Use.

Residential and farm infrastructure

The largest-share land-use category across rural lots in Wingecarribee Shire Council.

Market trends

Council-wide pulse

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

Price change · 12 mo
+15.7%
median price across all sales (residential + rural)
Price change · 3 mo
-4.1%
Sales volume · 12 mo
+71.3%
year-on-year change in sale count
Median weekly rent
$599
+13.6% y/y
Gross rental yield
2.44%
Days on market
50 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 Wingecarribee Shire Council (34)

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
Tallong 2579 419
Canyonleigh 2577 264
Werai 2577 241
Exeter 2579 222
Colo Vale 2575 190
Yerrinbool 2575 170
Hill Top 2575 165
Berrima 2577 150
High Range 2575 140
Penrose 2579 98
Woodlands 2536 96
Bowral 2576 90
Bundanoon 2578 90
Joadja 2575 89
Moss Vale 2577 72
Paddys River 2577 72
Wingello 2579 67
Mandemar 2575 67
Balaclava 2575 53
Alpine 2575 47
Belanglo 2577 39
Mittagong 2575 38
Balmoral Village 2571 29
Aylmerton 2575 26
Meryla 2577 24
Medway 2577 19
Braemar 2575 8
Manchester Square 2577 6
Fitzroy Falls 2577 4
Burradoo 2576 2
Robertson 2577 2
Sutton Forest 2577 1
Renwick 2575 1
New Berrima 2577 1
Mining & resources

Subsurface activity nearby

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

In mining title
0%
of rural lots
Nearest mine
12.6 km
mean across lots
Coal < 10 km
49%
of rural lots
Nearest critical mineral
88.9 km
Au, (Ag, Fe)
Land character
Geology Lachlan Orogen Wine GI Southern Highlands

About Wingecarribee Shire Council

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

Across 2,631 rural lots in Wingecarribee Shire Council, the dominant land use is Residential and farm infrastructure. The typical land-capability class is Good grazing — from the NSW DPI Land & Soil Capability v4 polygon layer.

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

Rural lots in Wingecarribee Shire Council average 840 mm annual rainfall, mean daily max temperature 19.6°C, and 35 frost days per year. Aridity index 0.69 — drawn from BOM 30-year normals.

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

Median rural rate across Wingecarribee Shire Council is $310k/ha based on 88 registered RU-zoned sales in the last 5 years (high 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.