6,123 rural lots across 37 suburbs. Dominant land use: 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 6,123 rural lots across Cairns Regional 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 Cairns Regional.
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 Cairns Regional 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 Cairns Regional.
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| Suburb | Rural lots↓ |
|---|---|
| Mount Peter 4869 | 832 |
| Gordonvale 4865 | 778 |
| Aloomba 4871 | 670 |
| Goldsborough 4865 | 465 |
| Mirriwinni 4871 | 381 |
| Babinda 4861 | 346 |
| Eubenangee 4860 | 288 |
| Bellenden Ker 4871 | 260 |
| Barron 4878 | 220 |
| Redlynch 4870 | 218 |
| Bartle Frere 4861 | 211 |
| Woopen Creek 4871 | 176 |
| Wrights Creek 4869 | 176 |
| Fishery Falls 4871 | 174 |
| Deeral 4871 | 145 |
| Green Hill 4865 | 129 |
| Packers Camp 4865 | 115 |
| Edmonton 4869 | 101 |
| Little Mulgrave 4865 | 72 |
| East Russell 4861 | 70 |
| Smithfield 4878 | 64 |
| Waugh Pocket 4871 | 60 |
| Yorkeys Knob 4878 | 52 |
| Bentley Park 4869 | 42 |
| Caravonica 4878 | 32 |
| Glen Boughton 4871 | 25 |
| East Trinity 4871 | 22 |
| White Rock 4868 | 22 |
| Kamerunga 4870 | 19 |
| Machans Beach 4878 | 16 |
| Bramston Beach 4871 | 13 |
| Holloways Beach 4878 | 11 |
| Ngatjan 4860 | 4 |
| Trinity Beach 4879 | 3 |
| Freshwater 4870 | 2 |
| Macalister Range 4879 | 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 6,123 rural lots in Cairns Regional, the dominant Agricultural Land Class is Class A (crop land), and 51% of rural lots sit on mapped Strategic Cropping Land. The most common land use is Cropping.
Rural lots in Cairns Regional average 2,999 mm annual rainfall and about 4 days above 35°C a year, in the tropical climate zone.
100% of rural lots in Cairns Regional sit inside a statutory water plan area (Wet Tropics), and 99% 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.