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SUMMARY OF FINDINGS


The Queensland Land Account provides statistics to measure changes in land attributes over time, both from an economic and an environmental perspective. This forms part of a suite of environmental-economic accounts being developed for Australia. These estimates have been prepared for land based policy analysis. Tables are presented using formats recommended in the United Nations' System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA) Central Framework 2012. Some additional outputs have been produced at the Statistical Area Level 2 (SA2) to demonstrate alternative methods to present land data. This publication is experimental as the methodology is being refined and the estimates should be used with caution.

The land use data in this publication is representative as at 30 June 2011 and 30 June 2016, while land cover is based on Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data from January 2010 to December 2011 and January 2014 to December 2015. Users should note the discrepancy between the land use and land cover data.

Please refer to the Explanatory Notes for more information.


QUEENSLAND'S LAND AT A GLANCE

• The State of Queensland covers approximately 173 million hectares.
• Total unimproved land value in Queensland increased by around $100 billion from $621.4 billion to $721.5 billion between 2011 and 2016.
• 'Residential' was the highest valued land use in Queensland with an unimproved land value of $415.0 billion and $518.7 billion in 2011 and 2016.
• 'Livestock Grazing' was the most dominant land use type by area in Queensland with 144.2 million and 143.8 million hectares in 2011 and 2016.
• 'Grasslands' was the most dominant broad land cover type by area in Queensland with 84.6 million and 82.3 million hectares in 2010-2011 and 2014-2015.
• 'Woodland' was the most dominant detailed land cover type by area in Queensland in 2010-2011 with 35.6 million hectares, while 'Spare Vegetation' was the most dominant in 2014-2015 with 53.3 million hectares.

Summary of land use by area - 30 June 2011 to 30 June 2016
Land use description		Opening stock 30 June 2011	Closing stock 30 June 2016	Total net change	Percent change
		Hectares	Hectares	Hectares	%
	Residential	199 250	235 452	36 202	18.2
	Commercial	191 911	192 880	969	0.5
	Industrial	75 561	78 388	2 827	3.7
	Extractive Industries	1 100 386	1 086 517	-13 869	-1.3
	Infrastructure, Utilities and Community Services	4 118	4 536	418	10.2
	Agriculture Cropping - Sugar Cane	706 781	679 414	-27 367	-3.9
	Agriculture Cropping - Other	3 231 472	3 728 083	496 611	15.4
	Livestock Grazing	144 227 578	143 837 449	-390 129	-0.3
	Livestock - Special Purpose Structures	129 989	123 851	-6 138	-4.7
	Horticulture - Orchards	104 879	103 982	-897	-0.9
	Horticulture - Other	46 448	46 605	157	0.3
	Horticulture - Special Purpose Structural Improvements	17 670	15 034	-2 636	-14.9
	Forestry - Commercial Timber Production	121 359	80 325	-41 034	-33.8
	Vacant Residential	1 864 997	1 798 961	-66 036	-3.5
	Unallocated (a)	549 117	560 041	10 924	2.0
	Not Classified (b)	20 445 615	20 445 615	-	-
	Queensland Total	173 017 132	173 017 132	-	-
- nil or rounded to zero (including null cells).
Any discrepancies between totals and sums of components in this publication are due to rounding.
(a) This includes land uses that could not be allocated to AVPCC.
(b) No land use information available.

Summary of land use by land value - 30 June 2011 to 30 June 2016
Land use description		Opening stock 30 June 2011	Closing stock 30 June 2016	Total net change	Percent change
		$'000	$'000	$'000	%
	Residential	414 969 470	518 717 453	103 747 983	25.0
	Commercial	27 297 919	29 475 872	2 177 952	8.0
	Industrial	19 356 280	22 587 802	3 231 522	16.7
	Extractive Industries	539 898	550 208	10 309	1.9
	Infrastructure, Utilities and Community Services	1 805 902	2 086 118	280 216	15.5
	Agriculture Cropping - Sugar Cane	1 581 097	1 738 147	157 050	9.9
	Agriculture Cropping - Other	3 935 664	3 908 004	-27 660	-0.7
	Livestock Grazing	17 376 227	15 007 853	-2 368 373	-13.6
	Livestock - Special Purpose Structures	377 537	411 573	34 036	9.0
	Horticulture - Orchards	333 825	396 746	62 920	18.8
	Horticulture - Other	215 005	195 170	-19 836	-9.2
	Horticulture - Special Purpose Structural Improvements	69 450	57 172	-12 278	-17.7
	Forestry - Commercial Timber Production	111 195	85 336	-25 859	-23.3
	Vacant Residential	130 030 530	122 882 547	-7 147 983	-5.5
	Unallocated (a)	3 403 505	3 388 548	-14 958	-0.4
	Not Classified (b)	-	-	-	-
	Queensland Total	621 403 505	721 488 548	100 085 042	16.1
- nil or rounded to zero (including null cells).
Any discrepancies between totals and sums of components in this publication are due to rounding.
(a) This includes land uses that could not be allocated to AVPCC.
(b) No land use information available.

Summary of broad land cover by area - 2010-2011 to 2014-2015
Land cover description		Opening stock 2010-2011	Closing stock 2014-2015	Total net change	Percent change
		Hectares	Hectares	Hectares	%
	Urban Areas & Extraction Sites (a)	299 863	299 863	-	-
	Waterbodies	1 079 856	888 625	-191 231	-17.7
	Wetlands	1 075 625	563 281	-512 344	-47.6
	Irrigated Lands	581 744	542 675	-39 069	-6.7
	Rainfed Lands	5 625 731	5 354 413	-271 319	-4.8
	Grasslands	84 574 275	82 349 544	-2 224 731	-2.6
	Woody Shrubs	7 273 100	18 316 800	11 043 700	151.8
	Trees	72 135 444	64 330 438	-7 805 006	-10.8
	No Data	344 656	344 656	-	-
	Queensland Total	172 990 294	172 990 294	-	-
- nil or rounded to zero (including null cells).
Any discrepancies between totals and sums of components in this publication are due to rounding.
(a) Urban Areas & Extraction Sites is a static land cover type. These classes show no changes over time.