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Castle Creek 4715

88 rural lots across 47,974 ha in Banana Shire. Dominant: Grazing native vegetation.

88
Rural lots
47,974 ha
Rural land
Pasture land
Dominant land class (Class C)
19 tCO₂e/ha
Mean above-ground biomass

Where is Castle Creek?

© State of Queensland · Digital Earth Australia
Agricultural land

Agricultural Land Class mix

How the 88 rural lots in this suburb are classified for agricultural potential — Class A is crop land, Class C is pasture, Class D has no significant agricultural value.

Class C Pasture land
Class A — crop land 44%
Class B — limited crop 0%
Class C — pasture 56%
Class D — non-agricultural 0%
Queensland Agricultural Land Audit — Class A is crop land, Class D has no significant agricultural value. Share of classified rural lots.
35% of rural lots sit on mapped Strategic Cropping Land — Queensland's most productive cropping soils, protected under the Regional Planning Interests Act.
Climate

Rainfall, temperature, growing window

Long-term climate averages across the rural lots in this suburb.

Annual rainfall
580 mm
Sub-humid
Extreme heat days
34 / year
Hot summers
Climate zone
arid
dominant across rural lots

Climate values are the average across rural lots in this area, drawn from Bureau of Meteorology station records.

Carbon

Carbon opportunity

Above-ground biomass — woody vegetation already on the land.

19 tCO₂e
tCO₂e per hectare
950,150 tCO₂e
total estimated

Light scattered tree cover — typical of cleared grazing country.

Satellite above-ground biomass, summarised per lot. Site-specific carbon pre-feasibility per property is available in the AgDSS app.
Vegetation

Cover profile

Digital Earth Australia Fractional Cover, from satellite imagery.

Green cover50%
Forest cover100%
Mean across all rural lots in this suburb. Per-lot vegetation and biodiversity-incentive eligibility live in the AgDSS app.
Water

Water plans and groundwater

Statutory water-plan coverage and water infrastructure across the 88 rural lots.

Water access

Water plans and groundwater

Statutory water-plan coverage and bore proximity across rural lots.

100%
in a water plan area — Fitzroy Basin
0%
in a groundwater management area
Water infrastructure nearby
1.3
km to a bore
283.1
km to a dam
0
licences within 1 km
A registered bore is close — within walking distance for most lots.

Source: Queensland water plan areas and the state groundwater (bores) database.

Risks & constraints

Hazard exposure across rural lots

Share of rural lots intersecting each hazard or planning constraint. Sorted highest first; zero-exposure items collapsed at the bottom.

Koala habitat 100%
Mapped koala habitat — clearing controls apply.
Flood hazard 95%
State environmental significance 86%
Matters of State Environmental Significance mapping.
Bushfire hazard 83%
Heritage-listed 48%
Threatened ecological 30%
Protected area 14%
No exposure
Cyclone zone · Storm-surge zone · Sea-level-rise exposure · Coastal erosion · Acid-sulfate soils · Wetland
Fire history

Mapped fire scars

Satellite-mapped burnt-area history across rural lots — includes planned burns as well as bushfires.

95%
of lots burnt in 20 yrs
59%
burnt in the last 5 yrs
2025
most recent fire year

Source: Queensland Government satellite fire-scar mapping.

Access

Services and connectivity

Mean distances from rural lots in this suburb to everyday services and transport.

School
12.2 km
Hospital
11.9 km
Train station
Motorway
335.6 km
Supermarket
12.2 km
Land use

Dominant rural land use

From the Queensland Land Use Mapping Program.

Grazing native vegetation

The land-use category covering the largest share of rural lots in Castle Creek. Per-lot land use, water access and grant eligibility live in the AgDSS app.

Community

People and outlook

Census snapshot and the official population projection to 2046.

8,817
population
40
median age
$87,100
median weekly household income
24%
renting
8,409 projected population by 2046 — -5% on today. Queensland Government projections.

Source: ABS Census · Queensland Government population projections. Whole-suburb figures, not rural-only.

Mining & resources

Subsurface activity nearby

Nearest mine
3.7 km
mean across rural lots
Nearest mineral occurrence
6.0 km
Occurrences within 5 km
1
mean per lot
8 declared disasters · last 5 yrs

Declared disaster events give a sense of how often this area is affected by flood, fire, storm or drought.

Land character
Tenure Freehold Ag region Central Queensland Native title 23% of lots · Native title exists in the entire determination area

About Castle Creek 4715

What is the rural land in Castle Creek 4715 like?

Castle Creek 4715 contains 88 rural lots covering 47,974 ha. The dominant Agricultural Land Class is Class C (pasture land), and the most common land use is Grazing native vegetation. 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.

What hazards affect rural land in Castle Creek?

Across rural lots in Castle Creek 4715: 83% are mapped as bushfire hazard, 95% as flood hazard. Mapped fire history covers 95% of rural lots over the last 20 years.

What water access do rural lots in Castle Creek have?

100% of rural lots in Castle Creek sit inside a statutory water plan area (Fitzroy Basin), and 0% inside a groundwater management area. The nearest registered bore averages 1.3 km away.

Where does this data come from?

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.

Data sources

Authoritative government and scientific datasets.

Data updated 2026-07-22. 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. Site-specific intelligence per property is available in the AgDSS app.