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Far North Queensland

Tablelands Regional

9,596 rural lots across 53 suburbs. Dominant land use: Grazing native vegetation.

9,596
Rural lots
841,868 ha
Rural land
Crop land
Dominant land class (Class A)
75 tCO₂e/ha
Mean above-ground biomass

Tablelands Regional — rural suburbs

© State of Queensland · Digital Earth Australia

Council boundary outlined; each circle is one rural suburb sized by rural-lot count. Click a circle to open the suburb page.

Suburb circles · sized by rural lots
10 500 5,000+
Agricultural land

Agricultural Land Class mix

How the 9,596 rural lots across Tablelands Regional are classified for agricultural potential.

Class A Crop land
Class A — crop land 53%
Class B — limited crop 17%
Class C — pasture 24%
Class D — non-agricultural 6%
Queensland Agricultural Land Audit — Class A is crop land, Class D has no significant agricultural value. Share of classified rural lots.
21% 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 rural lots in this council.

Annual rainfall
1,490 mm
Wet
Extreme heat days
1 / 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 profile

Above-ground biomass — woody vegetation already on the land.

75 tCO₂e/ha
mean across rural lots
72.85 M tCO₂e
total estimated
Satellite above-ground biomass, summarised per lot.
Vegetation

Cover profile

Digital Earth Australia Fractional Cover, from satellite imagery.

Green cover15%
Forest cover100%
Water

Water plans and groundwater

Statutory water-plan coverage across rural lots in Tablelands Regional.

Water access

Water plans and groundwater

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

100%
in a water plan area — Wet Tropics
80%
in a groundwater management area
Water infrastructure nearby
0.9
km to a bore
1216.8
km to a dam
6
licences within 1 km
A registered bore is close — within walking distance for most lots.
Groundwater area: Atherton Underground Water Management Area

Source: Queensland water plan areas and the state groundwater (bores) database.

Risks & constraints

Hazard exposure across rural lots

Share of rural lots in Tablelands Regional intersecting each hazard or planning constraint.

Koala habitat 100%
Mapped koala habitat — clearing controls apply.
Flood hazard 99%
Cyclone zone 52%
State environmental significance 50%
Matters of State Environmental Significance mapping.
Bushfire hazard 44%
Threatened ecological 23%
Protected area 6%
Wetland 4%
Heritage-listed 1%
No exposure
Storm-surge zone · Sea-level-rise exposure · Coastal erosion · Acid-sulfate soils
Fire history

Mapped fire scars

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

69%
of lots burnt in 20 yrs
17%
burnt in the last 5 yrs
2025
most recent fire year

Source: Queensland Government satellite fire-scar mapping.

Land use

Dominant rural land use

From the Queensland Land Use Mapping Program.

Grazing native vegetation

The largest-share land-use category across rural lots in Tablelands Regional.

Rural suburbs in Tablelands Regional (53)

Click any column header to sort.

Suburb Rural lots
Mount Garnet 4872 869
Atherton 4883 799
Tolga 4882 665
Yungaburra 4884 639
Evelyn 4888 392
Malanda 4885 347
Upper Barron 4883 336
Millstream 4888 333
Kairi 4872 315
Peeramon 4885 298
Millaa Millaa 4886 283
Ravenshoe 4888 276
Herberton 4887 272
East Barron 4883 269
Walkamin 4872 258
Wondecla 4887 254
Silver Valley 4872 239
Innot Hot Springs 4872 172
Tumoulin 4888 165
Barrine 4872 164
Tarzali 4885 161
Glen Allyn 4885 154
Kalunga 4887 135
Minnamoolka 4872 130
Kaban 4888 123
Lake Eacham 4884 119
Danbulla 4872 103
Beatrice 4886 100
Jaggan 4885 100
Topaz 4885 93
Kureen 4885 90
Lake Barrine 4884 83
Wongabel 4883 82
Carrington 4883 70
Ellinjaa 4886 69
Moomin 4887 68
Gunnawarra 4872 64
Minbun 4886 63
Butchers Creek 4885 59
Koombooloomba 4872 58
Moregatta 4886 58
North Johnstone 4885 55
Middlebrook 4886 53
Mungalli 4886 50
Maalan 4886 35
Tinaroo 4872 33
Kirrama 4872 32
Glen Ruth 4872 21
Wooroonooran 4860 10
Lake Tinaroo 4872 8
Wairuna 4872 2
Gadgarra 4884 2
Palmerston 4860 1
8 declared disasters · last 5 yrs

Declared disaster events give a sense of how often this council area is affected by flood, fire, storm or drought.

Land character
Tenure Freehold Ag region Far North Queensland

About Tablelands Regional

What is the agricultural land in Tablelands Regional like?

Across 9,596 rural lots in Tablelands Regional, the dominant Agricultural Land Class is Class A (crop land), and 21% of rural lots sit on mapped Strategic Cropping Land. The most common land use is Grazing native vegetation.

What's the climate of Tablelands Regional's rural land?

Rural lots in Tablelands Regional average 1,490 mm annual rainfall and about 1 days above 35°C a year, in the tropical climate zone.

What water access do rural lots in Tablelands Regional have?

100% of rural lots in Tablelands Regional sit inside a statutory water plan area (Wet Tropics), and 80% inside a groundwater management area.

What data sources are used?

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.