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Bulgun 4854

58 rural lots across 449 ha in Cassowary Coast Regional. Dominant: Cropping.

58
Rural lots
449 ha
Rural land
Crop land
Dominant land class (Class A)
87 tCO₂e/ha
Mean above-ground biomass

Where is Bulgun?

© State of Queensland · Digital Earth Australia
Agricultural land

Agricultural Land Class mix

How the 58 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 A Crop land
Class A — crop land 95%
Class B — limited crop 5%
Class C — pasture 0%
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.
16% 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
3,710 mm
Wet
Extreme heat days
4 / year
Cool summers
Climate zone
tropical
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.

87 tCO₂e
tCO₂e per hectare
39,433 tCO₂e
total estimated

Moderate woody-vegetation cover — typical of remnant-vegetation paddocks.

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 cover9%
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 58 rural lots.

Water access

Water plans and groundwater

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

100%
in a water plan area — Wet Tropics
0%
in a groundwater management area
Water infrastructure nearby
0.8
km to a bore
1144.6
km to a dam
2
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.

Flood hazard 100%
Cyclone zone 100%
Koala habitat 100%
Mapped koala habitat — clearing controls apply.
State environmental significance 76%
Matters of State Environmental Significance mapping.
Threatened ecological 29%
Protected area 17%
Acid-sulfate soils 14%
No exposure
Bushfire hazard · Storm-surge zone · Sea-level-rise exposure · Coastal erosion · Wetland · Heritage-listed
Fire history

Mapped fire scars

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

97%
of lots burnt in 20 yrs
0%
burnt in the last 5 yrs
2013
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
2.7 km
Hospital
1.5 km
Train station
Motorway
1203.8 km
Supermarket
1.9 km
Land use

Dominant rural land use

From the Queensland Land Use Mapping Program.

Cropping

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

Sugar 88% of lots
Community

People and outlook

Census snapshot and the official population projection to 2046.

10,999
population
48
median age
$61,880
median weekly household income
29%
renting
12,263 projected population by 2046 — +10% 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
4.7 km
mean across rural lots
Nearest mineral occurrence
5.8 km
Occurrences within 5 km
0
mean per lot
5 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 Far North Queensland Native title 2% of lots · Native title exists in the entire determination area

About Bulgun 4854

What is the rural land in Bulgun 4854 like?

Bulgun 4854 contains 58 rural lots covering 449 ha. The dominant Agricultural Land Class is Class A (crop land), and the most common land use is Cropping. 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 Bulgun?

Across rural lots in Bulgun 4854: 0% are mapped as bushfire hazard, 100% as flood hazard, and 100% fall in a cyclone zone. Mapped fire history covers 97% of rural lots over the last 20 years.

What water access do rural lots in Bulgun have?

100% of rural lots in Bulgun sit inside a statutory water plan area (Wet Tropics), and 0% inside a groundwater management area. The nearest registered bore averages 0.8 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.