9,596 rural lots across 53 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 9,596 rural lots across Tablelands Regional 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 Tablelands Regional.
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 Tablelands Regional 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 Tablelands Regional.
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| 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 |
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 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.
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.
100% of rural lots in Tablelands Regional sit inside a statutory water plan area (Wet Tropics), and 80% 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.