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Crystal Creek 4816

18 rural lots across 125 ha in Townsville City. Dominant: Grazing native vegetation.

18
Rural lots
125 ha
Rural land
Crop land
Dominant land class (Class A)
204 tCO₂e/ha
Mean above-ground biomass

Where is Crystal Creek?

© State of Queensland · Digital Earth Australia
Agricultural land

Agricultural Land Class mix

How the 18 rural lots in this suburb are classified for agricultural potential — Class A is crop land, Class C is pasture, Class D has no significant agricultural value.

Class A Crop land
Class A — crop land 61%
Class B — limited crop 22%
Class C — pasture 0%
Class D — non-agricultural 17%
Queensland Agricultural Land Audit — Class A is crop land, Class D has no significant agricultural value. Share of classified rural lots.
22% 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 the rural lots in this suburb.

Annual rainfall
2,151 mm
Wet
Extreme heat days
3 / 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 opportunity

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

204 tCO₂e
tCO₂e per hectare
142,341 tCO₂e
total estimated

Heavily wooded — typical of native-vegetation grazing or partial forest cover.

Satellite above-ground biomass, summarised per lot. Site-specific carbon pre-feasibility per property is available in the AgDSS app.
Vegetation

Cover profile

Digital Earth Australia Fractional Cover, from satellite imagery.

Green cover79%
Forest cover100%
Mean across all rural lots in this suburb. Per-lot vegetation and biodiversity-incentive eligibility live in the AgDSS app.
Water

Water plans and groundwater

Statutory water-plan coverage and water infrastructure across the 18 rural lots.

Water access

Water plans and groundwater

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

6%
in a water plan area — Burdekin Basin
0%
in a groundwater management area
Water infrastructure nearby
0.7
km to a bore
1026.0
km to a dam
2
licences within 1 km
A registered bore is close — within walking distance for most lots.

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

Risks & constraints

Hazard exposure across rural lots

Share of rural lots intersecting each hazard or planning constraint. Sorted highest first; zero-exposure items collapsed at the bottom.

Flood hazard 100%
Cyclone zone 100%
Koala habitat 100%
Mapped koala habitat — clearing controls apply.
Bushfire hazard 94%
State environmental significance 94%
Matters of State Environmental Significance mapping.
Threatened ecological 61%
Protected area 56%
Acid-sulfate soils 6%
Heritage-listed 6%
No exposure
Storm-surge zone · Sea-level-rise exposure · Coastal erosion · Wetland
Fire history

Mapped fire scars

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

94%
of lots burnt in 20 yrs
6%
burnt in the last 5 yrs
2024
most recent fire year

Source: Queensland Government satellite fire-scar mapping.

Access

Services and connectivity

Mean distances from rural lots in this suburb to everyday services and transport.

School
259 m
Hospital
29.9 km
Train station
Motorway
1081.5 km
Supermarket
29.9 km
Land use

Dominant rural land use

From the Queensland Land Use Mapping Program.

Grazing native vegetation

The land-use category covering the largest share of rural lots in Crystal Creek. Per-lot land use, water access and grant eligibility live in the AgDSS app.

Sugar 17% of lots
Community

People and outlook

Census snapshot and the official population projection to 2046.

6,566
population
45
median age
$79,612
median weekly household income
15%
renting
8,422 projected population by 2046 — +27% on today. Queensland Government projections.

Source: ABS Census · Queensland Government population projections. Whole-suburb figures, not rural-only.

Mining & resources

Subsurface activity nearby

Nearest mine
0.0 km
mean across rural lots
Nearest mineral occurrence
2.0 km
Occurrences within 5 km
26
mean per lot
7 declared disasters · last 5 yrs

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

Land character
Tenure Freehold Ag region Charters Towers Native title 33% of lots · Native title exists in the entire determination area

About Crystal Creek 4816

What is the rural land in Crystal Creek 4816 like?

Crystal Creek 4816 contains 18 rural lots covering 125 ha. The dominant Agricultural Land Class is Class A (crop land), and the most common land use is Grazing native vegetation. 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.

What hazards affect rural land in Crystal Creek?

Across rural lots in Crystal Creek 4816: 94% are mapped as bushfire hazard, 100% as flood hazard, and 100% fall in a cyclone zone. Mapped fire history covers 94% of rural lots over the last 20 years.

What water access do rural lots in Crystal Creek have?

6% of rural lots in Crystal Creek sit inside a statutory water plan area (Burdekin Basin), and 0% inside a groundwater management area. The nearest registered bore averages 0.7 km away.

Where does this data come from?

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.

Data sources

Authoritative government and scientific datasets.

Data updated 2026-07-22. 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. Site-specific intelligence per property is available in the AgDSS app.