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Carruchan 4816

133 rural lots across 6,102 ha in Cassowary Coast Regional. Dominant: Grazing native vegetation.

133
Rural lots
6,102 ha
Rural land
Crop land
Dominant land class (Class A)
184 tCO₂e/ha
Mean above-ground biomass

Where is Carruchan?

© State of Queensland · Digital Earth Australia
Agricultural land

Agricultural Land Class mix

How the 133 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 84%
Class B — limited crop 1%
Class C — pasture 5%
Class D — non-agricultural 10%
Queensland Agricultural Land Audit — Class A is crop land, Class D has no significant agricultural value. Share of classified rural lots.
59% 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
1,921 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.

184 tCO₂e
tCO₂e per hectare
51.01 M tCO₂e
total estimated

Heavily wooded — typical of native-vegetation grazing or partial forest cover.

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 cover2%
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 133 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
0.6
km to a bore
1116.6
km to a dam
8
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.
Bushfire hazard 80%
State environmental significance 77%
Matters of State Environmental Significance mapping.
Acid-sulfate soils 41%
Protected area 29%
Threatened ecological 17%
Storm-surge zone 1%
No exposure
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.

90%
of lots burnt in 20 yrs
4%
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
1.5 km
Hospital
30.6 km
Train station
Motorway
1173.6 km
Supermarket
3.8 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 Carruchan. Per-lot land use, water access and grant eligibility live in the AgDSS app.

Sugar 39% 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
0.4 km
mean across rural lots
Nearest mineral occurrence
7.0 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 8% of lots · Native title exists in parts of the determination area

About Carruchan 4816

What is the rural land in Carruchan 4816 like?

Carruchan 4816 contains 133 rural lots covering 6,102 ha. The dominant Agricultural Land Class is Class A (crop 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 Carruchan?

Across rural lots in Carruchan 4816: 80% are mapped as bushfire hazard, 100% as flood hazard, and 100% fall in a cyclone zone. Mapped fire history covers 90% of rural lots over the last 20 years.

What water access do rural lots in Carruchan have?

100% of rural lots in Carruchan sit inside a statutory water plan area (Wet Tropics), and 0% inside a groundwater management area. The nearest registered bore averages 0.6 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.