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Greater Sydney

Wollondilly Shire Council

5,474 rural lots across 31 suburbs. Dominant land use: Residential and farm infrastructure.

5,474
Rural lots
50,351 ha
Rural land
Good grazing
Typical capability (class 4)
96 tCO₂e/ha
Mean above-ground biomass

Wollondilly 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 5,474 rural lots in Wollondilly Shire Council.

Class 4 Good grazing
Class 1–20%
Class 3–470%
Class 5–615%
Class 7–815%
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
847 mm
Moderate rainfall
Mean max temp
21.5 °C
annual average daily max
Extreme heat days
7 / year
Mild summers
Frost days
16 / year
Light frost
Aridity index
0.63 P/PET
Sub-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.

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

Cover profile

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

Green cover58%
Forest cover37%
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
0.4
km away
Bore on or beside the property is typical.
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 Wollondilly Shire Council intersecting each hazard or planning constraint.

Bushfire-prone 96%
Mine subsidence 51%
Threatened ecological 27%
TEC mapping — clearing constraints apply.
Heritage-listed 2%
No exposure
Flood-prone · 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 Wollondilly Shire Council.

Connectivity

Roads, rail, schools

Classified road 1.7 km
Nearest school 2.8 km
Rail station 7.0 km
Energy

Grid + transmission

Substation 6.1 km · 132 kV
Transmission line 3.0 km · 330 kV
Transmission line within commercial-solar range.
Services

Health + water

Nearest hospital 17.2 km
Water treatment 4.8 km
Rural market
High confidence

Land sale activity

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

$1.07M
per hectare (median)
243
sales (last 5 yrs)
Land use

Dominant rural land use

From the ABARES Catchment Scale Land Use classification.

Residential and farm infrastructure

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

Market trends

Council-wide pulse

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

Price change · 12 mo
+4.8%
median price across all sales (residential + rural)
Price change · 3 mo
+1.9%
Sales volume · 12 mo
+19.0%
year-on-year change in sale count
Median weekly rent
$623
+6.4% y/y
Gross rental yield
2.78%
Days on market
53 days
18 active listings

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

Rural suburbs in Wollondilly Shire Council (31)

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Suburb Rural lots
Bargo 2574 515
Wallacia 2745 460
Picton 2571 459
Oakdale 2570 438
Thirlmere 2572 406
Douglas Park 2569 353
The Oaks 2570 316
Wilton 2571 304
Tahmoor 2573 271
Orangeville 2570 257
Razorback 2571 251
Mount Hunter 2570 221
Lakesland 2572 177
Silverdale 2752 171
Appin 2560 152
Buxton 2571 150
Belimbla Park 2570 149
Theresa Park 2570 134
Cawdor 2570 134
Couridjah 2571 127
Werombi 2570 101
Pheasants Nest 2574 89
Brownlow Hill 2570 75
Menangle 2568 74
Yanderra 2574 62
Glenmore 2570 43
Mowbray Park 2571 30
Camden Park 2570 5
Maldon 2571 3
Warragamba 2752 3
Nattai 2570 1
Mining & resources

Subsurface activity nearby

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

In mining title
0%
of rural lots
Nearest mine
4.8 km
mean across lots
Coal < 10 km
90%
of rural lots
Nearest critical mineral
99.3 km
Au, (Ag, Fe)
Land character
Geology Lachlan Orogen Wine region South Coast

About Wollondilly Shire Council

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

Across 5,474 rural lots in Wollondilly Shire Council, the dominant land use is Residential and farm infrastructure. Typical land capability is good grazing.

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

Rural lots in Wollondilly Shire Council average 847 mm annual rainfall, mean daily max temperature 21.5°C, and 16 frost days per year. Aridity index 0.63.

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

The median rural rate across Wollondilly Shire Council is $1.07M/ha based on 243 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.