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Southern Tablelands

Yass Valley Council

8,921 rural lots across 31 suburbs. Dominant land use: Grazing modified pastures.

8,921
Rural lots
334,907 ha
Rural land
Good grazing
Typical capability (class 4)
60 tCO₂e/ha
Mean above-ground biomass

Yass Valley 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 8,921 rural lots in Yass Valley Council.

Class 4 Good grazing
Class 1–20%
Class 3–453%
Class 5–638%
Class 7–88%
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
726 mm
Moderate rainfall
Mean max temp
20.4 °C
annual average daily max
Extreme heat days
8 / year
Mild summers
Frost days
75 / year
Frost-prone
Aridity index
0.58 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.

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

Cover profile

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

Green cover56%
Forest cover10%
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
1.0
km away
A bore is close — within walking distance for most lots.
Plan: Water Sharing Plan for the Murrumbidgee Unregulated River Water Sources 2025

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

Risks & constraints

Hazard exposure across rural lots

Share of rural lots in Yass Valley Council intersecting each hazard or planning constraint.

Bushfire-prone 93%
Groundwater vulnerable 49%
Recharge area or shallow aquifer.
Salinity-prone 32%
Threatened ecological 13%
Heritage-listed 4%
No exposure
Flood-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 Yass Valley Council.

Connectivity

Roads, rail, schools

Classified road 3.1 km
Nearest school 9.5 km
Rail station 22.4 km
Energy

Grid + transmission

Substation 9.8 km · 330 kV
Transmission line 4.0 km · 330 kV
Transmission line within commercial-solar range.
Services

Health + water

Nearest hospital 23.5 km
Water treatment 17.5 km
Rural market
High confidence

Land sale activity

Registered rural-zoned sales across Yass Valley Council, last 5 years.

$2.94M
per hectare (median)
362
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 Yass Valley Council.

Market trends

Council-wide pulse

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

Price change · 12 mo
+21.3%
median price across all sales (residential + rural)
Price change · 3 mo
+11.4%
Sales volume · 12 mo
+169.7%
year-on-year change in sale count
Median weekly rent
$525
+9.2% y/y
Gross rental yield
3.35%
Days on market
42 days
5 active listings

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

Rural suburbs in Yass Valley Council (31)

Click any column header to sort.

Suburb Rural lots
Bowning 2582 1,060
Binalong 2584 1,027
Gundaroo 2620 748
Murrumbateman 2582 718
Bookham 2582 609
Sutton 2620 525
Collector 2581 508
Kangiara 2582 373
Springrange 2618 335
Yass River 2582 307
Wee Jasper 2582 306
Cavan 2582 292
Bango 2582 288
Mullion 2582 280
Jeir 2582 264
Bellmount Forest 2581 247
Good Hope 2582 215
Wallaroo 2618 199
Woolgarlo 2582 166
Laverstock 2582 151
Lerida 2581 149
Nanima 2820 140
Narrangullen 2582 129
Boambolo 2582 126
Bywong 2621 116
Burrinjuck 2582 103
Yass 2582 96
Manton 2582 81
Lake George 2621 75
Uriarra 2611 75
Marchmont 2582 42
Mining & resources

Subsurface activity nearby

Active mining titles, coal-mine proximity and critical-mineral occurrences across Yass Valley Council.

In mining title
0%
of rural lots
Nearest mine
64.6 km
mean across lots
Coal < 10 km
0%
of rural lots
Nearest critical mineral
40.0 km
Sn, W, WO3
Land character
Geology Lachlan Orogen Wine region Canberra District

About Yass Valley Council

What's the dominant rural land use in Yass Valley Council?

Across 8,921 rural lots in Yass Valley Council, the dominant land use is Grazing modified pastures. Typical land capability is good grazing.

What's the climate of Yass Valley Council's rural land?

Rural lots in Yass Valley Council average 726 mm annual rainfall, mean daily max temperature 20.4°C, and 75 frost days per year. Aridity index 0.58.

What's the rural land market like in Yass Valley Council?

The median rural rate across Yass Valley Council is $2.94M/ha based on 362 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.