6,419 rural lots across 48 suburbs. Dominant land use: Grazing native vegetation.
Council boundary outlined; each circle is one rural suburb sized by rural-lot count. Click a circle to open the suburb page.
How the 6,419 rural lots across Ipswich City 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 Ipswich City.
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 Ipswich City 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 Ipswich City.
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| Suburb | Rural lots↓ |
|---|---|
| Purga 4306 | 555 |
| Pine Mountain 4306 | 551 |
| Grandchester 4340 | 527 |
| Haigslea 4306 | 499 |
| Calvert 4340 | 395 |
| Marburg 4346 | 373 |
| Rosewood 4340 | 334 |
| Tallegalla 4340 | 331 |
| Lower Mount Walker 4340 | 306 |
| Ironbark 4306 | 304 |
| Karrabin 4306 | 274 |
| Mount Mort 4340 | 253 |
| Muirlea 4306 | 222 |
| Mount Forbes 4340 | 177 |
| Ebenezer 4340 | 173 |
| Lanefield 4340 | 172 |
| Deebing Heights 4306 | 146 |
| Walloon 4306 | 128 |
| Mount Marrow 4306 | 112 |
| The Bluff 4340 | 110 |
| Ashwell 4340 | 85 |
| Thagoona 4306 | 84 |
| Goolman 4306 | 57 |
| Willowbank 4306 | 48 |
| Ripley 4306 | 40 |
| Woolshed 4340 | 32 |
| Flinders View 4305 | 27 |
| South Ripley 4306 | 24 |
| Blacksoil 4306 | 23 |
| Wulkuraka 4305 | 20 |
| Yamanto 4305 | 20 |
| Redbank 4301 | 15 |
| Amberley 4306 | 10 |
| One Mile 4305 | 3 |
| Riverview 4303 | 3 |
| Swanbank 4306 | 3 |
| North Booval 4304 | 2 |
| Brassall 4305 | 2 |
| Redbank Plains 4301 | 2 |
| Moores Pocket 4305 | 2 |
| Karalee 4306 | 1 |
| Bundamba 4304 | 1 |
| North Tivoli 4305 | 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 6,419 rural lots in Ipswich City, the dominant Agricultural Land Class is Class C (pasture land), and 12% of rural lots sit on mapped Strategic Cropping Land. The most common land use is Grazing native vegetation.
Rural lots in Ipswich City average 830 mm annual rainfall and about 16 days above 35°C a year, in the subtropical climate zone.
100% of rural lots in Ipswich City sit inside a statutory water plan area (Moreton), and 52% 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.