8,068 rural lots across 22 suburbs. Dominant land use: Residential and farm infrastructure.
Council boundary outlined; each circle is one rural suburb sized by rural-lot count. Click a circle to open the suburb page.
How the 8,068 rural lots across Noosa 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 Noosa 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 Noosa 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 Noosa Shire.
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| Suburb | Rural lots↓ |
|---|---|
| Pomona 4568 | 915 |
| Cooroibah 4565 | 890 |
| Cooroy 4563 | 771 |
| Lake Macdonald 4563 | 761 |
| Black Mountain 4563 | 758 |
| Cooran 4569 | 644 |
| Kin Kin 4571 | 564 |
| Tinbeerwah 4563 | 562 |
| Cootharaba 4565 | 553 |
| Federal 4568 | 279 |
| Ridgewood 4563 | 267 |
| Pinbarren 4568 | 262 |
| Ringtail Creek 4565 | 160 |
| Cooroy Mountain 4563 | 124 |
| Como 4571 | 58 |
| Tewantin 4565 | 55 |
| Noosa North Shore 4565 | 54 |
| Noosaville 4566 | 24 |
| Boreen Point 4565 | 20 |
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 8,068 rural lots in Noosa Shire, the dominant Agricultural Land Class is Class D (non-agricultural), and 5% of rural lots sit on mapped Strategic Cropping Land. The most common land use is Residential and farm infrastructure.
Rural lots in Noosa Shire average 1,486 mm annual rainfall and about 3 days above 35°C a year, in the subtropical climate zone.
100% of rural lots in Noosa Shire sit inside a statutory water plan area (Mary Basin), and 1% 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.