10,860 rural lots across 49 suburbs. Dominant land use: Grazing native vegetation.
Council boundary outlined; each circle is one rural suburb sized by rural-lot count. Click a circle to open the suburb page.
How the 10,860 rural lots across Banana Shire are classified for agricultural potential.
Long-term climate averages across rural lots in this council.
Climate values are the average across rural lots in this area, drawn from Bureau of Meteorology station records.
Above-ground biomass — woody vegetation already on the land.
Digital Earth Australia Fractional Cover, from satellite imagery.
Statutory water-plan coverage across rural lots in Banana Shire.
Statutory water-plan coverage and bore proximity across rural lots.
Source: Queensland water plan areas and the state groundwater (bores) database.
Share of rural lots in Banana Shire intersecting each hazard or planning constraint.
Satellite-mapped burnt-area history across rural lots — includes planned burns as well as bushfires.
Source: Queensland Government satellite fire-scar mapping.
From the Queensland Land Use Mapping Program.
The largest-share land-use category across rural lots in Banana Shire.
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| Suburb | Rural lots↓ |
|---|---|
| Goovigen 4702 | 721 |
| Taroom 4420 | 615 |
| Thangool 4716 | 594 |
| Banana 4702 | 498 |
| Wowan 4702 | 497 |
| Lonesome Creek 4719 | 476 |
| Jambin 4702 | 443 |
| Kokotungo 4702 | 388 |
| Dixalea 4702 | 360 |
| Dumgree 4715 | 351 |
| Prospect 4715 | 325 |
| Cracow 4719 | 317 |
| Camboon 4719 | 282 |
| Dululu 4702 | 279 |
| Isla 4719 | 267 |
| Kianga 4718 | 266 |
| Lawgi Dawes 4716 | 263 |
| Baralaba 4702 | 253 |
| Orange Creek 4715 | 250 |
| Valentine Plains 4715 | 250 |
| Pheasant Creek 4702 | 224 |
| Moura 4718 | 221 |
| Ulogie 4702 | 180 |
| Dumpy Creek 4702 | 178 |
| Biloela 4715 | 166 |
| Kinnoul 4420 | 149 |
| Ghinghinda 4420 | 144 |
| Callide 4715 | 139 |
| Alberta 4702 | 134 |
| Mount Murchison 4715 | 112 |
| Glenhaughton 4420 | 111 |
| Dakenba 4715 | 106 |
| Cockatoo 4419 | 97 |
| Eurombah 4420 | 95 |
| Baroondah 4420 | 92 |
| Glebe 4420 | 90 |
| Castle Creek 4715 | 88 |
| Warnoah 4718 | 85 |
| Glenmoral 4719 | 82 |
| Broadmere 4420 | 81 |
| Gwambegwine 4420 | 80 |
| Tarramba 4702 | 74 |
| Roundstone 4718 | 70 |
| Coorada 4420 | 50 |
| Greycliffe 4715 | 46 |
| Theodore 4719 | 34 |
| Woolein 4702 | 23 |
Declared disaster events give a sense of how often this council area is affected by flood, fire, storm or drought.
Other rural councils in the same region.
Across 10,860 rural lots in Banana Shire, the dominant Agricultural Land Class is Class A (crop land), and 47% of rural lots sit on mapped Strategic Cropping Land. The most common land use is Grazing native vegetation.
Rural lots in Banana Shire average 610 mm annual rainfall and about 36 days above 35°C a year, in the subtropical climate zone.
100% of rural lots in Banana Shire sit inside a statutory water plan area (Fitzroy Basin), and 62% inside a groundwater management area.
Agricultural Land Class and Strategic Cropping Land come from the Queensland Agricultural Land Audit. Carbon stock is derived from the ESA Climate Change Initiative Biomass product, and vegetation cover from Digital Earth Australia Fractional Cover. Land use is from the Queensland Land Use Mapping Program. Hazard, water-plan, fire-history and native-title layers come from the responsible Queensland Government agencies, and lot identity from the Queensland Digital Cadastral Database.
Rural lots are those in a planning-scheme rural zone, plus — in the parts of Queensland where no council scheme is digitised — lots mapped as agricultural or production-forestry land use.