7,405 rural lots across 36 suburbs. Dominant land use: Irrigated cropping.
Council boundary outlined; each circle is one rural suburb sized by rural-lot count. Click a circle to open the suburb page.
How the 7,405 rural lots across Burdekin 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 Burdekin 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 Burdekin 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 Burdekin Shire.
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| Suburb | Rural lots↓ |
|---|---|
| Clare 4807 | 541 |
| Brandon 4808 | 457 |
| Fredericksfield 4806 | 416 |
| Barratta 4809 | 399 |
| Horseshoe Lagoon 4809 | 398 |
| Millaroo 4807 | 389 |
| Jarvisfield 4807 | 371 |
| Airville 4807 | 333 |
| Osborne 4806 | 316 |
| Ayr 4807 | 291 |
| Mona Park 4807 | 283 |
| Dalbeg 4807 | 282 |
| Upper Haughton 4809 | 278 |
| Kirknie 4806 | 264 |
| Inkerman 4806 | 222 |
| Airdmillan 4807 | 202 |
| Mount Kelly 4807 | 199 |
| Giru 4809 | 197 |
| Rita Island 4807 | 171 |
| Carstairs 4806 | 171 |
| Shirbourne 4809 | 154 |
| McDesme 4807 | 152 |
| Home Hill 4806 | 132 |
| Mount Surround 4809 | 126 |
| Mulgrave 4807 | 121 |
| Alva 4807 | 119 |
| Wangaratta 4806 | 112 |
| Rangemore 4352 | 96 |
| Colevale 4808 | 77 |
| Swans Lagoon 4807 | 58 |
| Cromarty 4809 | 32 |
| Wunjunga 4806 | 13 |
| Groper Creek 4806 | 7 |
| Eight Mile Creek 4807 | 7 |
| Jerona 4808 | 1 |
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 7,405 rural lots in Burdekin Shire, the dominant Agricultural Land Class is Class A (crop land), and 67% of rural lots sit on mapped Strategic Cropping Land. The most common land use is Irrigated cropping.
Rural lots in Burdekin Shire average 904 mm annual rainfall and about 10 days above 35°C a year, in the tropical climate zone.
92% of rural lots in Burdekin Shire sit inside a statutory water plan area (Burdekin Basin), and 4% 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.