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Illawarra

Wollongong City Council

227 rural lots across 21 suburbs. Dominant land use: Grazing modified pastures.

227
Rural lots
1,587 ha
Rural land
Limited ag use
Typical capability (class 5)
199 tCO₂e/ha
Mean above-ground biomass

Wollongong City 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 227 rural lots in Wollongong City Council.

Class 5 Limited ag use
Class 1–20%
Class 3–441%
Class 5–631%
Class 7–818%
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
1,169 mm
Wet
Mean max temp
21.9 °C
annual average daily max
Extreme heat days
3 / year
Cool summers
Frost days
1 / year
Frost-free
Aridity index
0.79 P/PET
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.

199 tCO₂e/ha
mean across rural lots
312,159 tCO₂e
total estimated
Satellite above-ground biomass, summarised per lot.
Vegetation

Cover profile

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

Green cover59%
Forest cover28%
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
0.6
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 Wollongong City Council intersecting each hazard or planning constraint.

Bushfire-prone 71%
Acid-sulfate soils 30%
Threatened ecological 20%
Heritage-listed 9%
Flood-prone 8%
Coastal environment 1%
No exposure
Groundwater vulnerable · Salinity-prone · Landslide-prone · Mine subsidence · Contamination history · In mining title
Infrastructure

Access and grid connection

Mean distances from rural lots to roads, schools, hospitals, transmission and substations across Wollongong City Council.

Connectivity

Roads, rail, schools

Classified road 1.6 km
Nearest school 2.0 km
Rail station 2.7 km
Energy

Grid + transmission

Substation 2.1 km · 330 kV
Transmission line 700 m · 330 kV
Transmission line on-doorstep — viable for utility-scale solar.
Services

Health + water

Nearest hospital 8.6 km
Water treatment 6.6 km
Rural market
Low confidence

Land sale activity

Registered rural-zoned sales across Wollongong City Council, last 5 years.

$4.62M
per hectare (median)
3
sales (last 5 yrs)
Land use

Dominant rural land use

From the ABARES Catchment Scale Land Use classification.

Grazing modified pastures

The largest-share land-use category across rural lots in Wollongong City Council.

Market trends

Council-wide pulse

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

Price change · 12 mo
-5.4%
median price across all sales (residential + rural)
Price change · 3 mo
+4.9%
Sales volume · 12 mo
+125.7%
year-on-year change in sale count
Median weekly rent
$643
+4.7% y/y
Gross rental yield
3.37%
Days on market
48 days
12 active listings

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

Rural suburbs in Wollongong City Council (21)

Click any column header to sort.

Suburb Rural lots
Kembla Grange 2526 51
Avondale 2530 30
Helensburgh 2508 28
Figtree 2525 19
Mount Kembla 2526 17
Farmborough Heights 2526 14
Dapto 2530 10
Wongawilli 2530 10
Marshall Mount 2530 10
Corrimal 2518 7
Cleveland 2530 6
Kembla Heights 2526 4
Huntley 2800 4
Woronora Dam 2508 4
Horsley 2530 4
Yallah 2530 3
Darkes Forest 2508 2
Kanahooka 2530 1
Coalcliff 2508 1
Unanderra 2526 1
Brownsville 2530 1
Mining & resources

Subsurface activity nearby

Active mining titles, coal-mine proximity and critical-mineral occurrences across Wollongong City Council.

In mining title
0%
of rural lots
Nearest mine
2.5 km
mean across lots
Coal < 10 km
98%
of rural lots
Nearest critical mineral
128.6 km
Au, (Ag, Fe)
Land character
Geology Lachlan Orogen Wine region South Coast

Nearby councils in Illawarra

Other rural councils in the same region.

About Wollongong City Council

What's the dominant rural land use in Wollongong City Council?

Across 227 rural lots in Wollongong City Council, the dominant land use is Grazing modified pastures. Typical land capability is limited ag use.

What's the climate of Wollongong City Council's rural land?

Rural lots in Wollongong City Council average 1,169 mm annual rainfall, mean daily max temperature 21.9°C, and 1 frost days per year. Aridity index 0.79.

What's the rural land market like in Wollongong City Council?

The median rural rate across Wollongong City Council is $4.62M/ha based on 3 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.