5,797 rural lots across 30 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 5,797 rural lots across Hinchinbrook 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 Hinchinbrook 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 Hinchinbrook 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 Hinchinbrook Shire.
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| Suburb | Rural lots↓ |
|---|---|
| Abergowrie 4850 | 743 |
| Trebonne 4850 | 377 |
| Bemerside 4850 | 367 |
| Lannercost 4850 | 350 |
| Braemeadows 4850 | 338 |
| Helens Hill 4850 | 302 |
| Hawkins Creek 4850 | 266 |
| Blackrock 4850 | 263 |
| Halifax 4850 | 257 |
| Upper Stone 4850 | 256 |
| Peacock Siding 4850 | 246 |
| Ingham 4850 | 237 |
| Toobanna 4850 | 211 |
| Macknade 4850 | 209 |
| Bambaroo 4850 | 196 |
| Long Pocket 4850 | 149 |
| Foresthome 4850 | 137 |
| Yuruga 4850 | 136 |
| Mount Fox 4850 | 124 |
| Cordelia 4850 | 112 |
| Coolbie 4850 | 107 |
| Dalrymple Creek 4850 | 103 |
| Gairloch 4850 | 89 |
| Forrest Beach 4850 | 75 |
| Victoria Plantation 4850 | 58 |
| Orient 4850 | 48 |
| Lucinda 4850 | 34 |
| Wharps 4850 | 15 |
| Taylors Beach 4850 | 4 |
| Garrawalt 4850 | 4 |
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 5,797 rural lots in Hinchinbrook Shire, the dominant Agricultural Land Class is Class A (crop land), and 73% of rural lots sit on mapped Strategic Cropping Land. The most common land use is Cropping.
Rural lots in Hinchinbrook Shire average 1,902 mm annual rainfall and about 8 days above 35°C a year, in the tropical climate zone.
100% of rural lots in Hinchinbrook Shire sit inside a statutory water plan area (Wet Tropics), and 47% 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.