SoE2020: Change in rural land use extent

Created 12/11/2025

Updated 12/11/2025

Since 1999, the proportion of Queensland that is rural land not settled has increased by 6.9 million hectares (ha) (or 34.26%). Cape York Natural Resource Management (NRM) region has experienced the greatest increase (2,039,292ha or 38.1%) whilst Southern Gulf NRM region has experienced the least increase (53,072ha or 3.0%).

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Title SoE2020: Change in rural land use extent
Language English
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/d8ba1852-2ea0-4a02-9505-f3faa8935138
Remote Last Updated 25/09/2023
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Environment, Tourism, Science and Innovation
OpenData@des.qld.gov.au
Reference Period 03/09/2021
Geospatial Coverage Queensland
Data Portal Queensland Government

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This dataset was originally found on Queensland Government "SoE2020: Change in rural land use extent". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/soe2020-change-rural-land-use-extent