Residential

Mapping and analysis

Residential refers to private land zoned for dwellings and excludes the road reserve (nature strip) area. The total canopy cover area (441 ha) as a proportion of the total Residential land use area is 9.3%.

Older suburbs such as Turvey Park, Lake Albert and Kooringal have higher than average canopy cover due to a larger number of established gardens on house and land lots suitable for tree plantings. Suburbs with large residential lots are also found in North Wagga Wagga, Springvale and San Isidore. These suburbs are also above the study area average. Moorong (13.5%) has the highest residential canopy cover, however a large, uncleared remnant vegetation patch on an undeveloped lot zoned for residential use is included in the dataset. Lower canopy cover suburbs are typically newer residential subdivisions such as Gobbagombalin, Lloyd, Estella, Bourkelands and Boorooma where the trend has been to build larger houses on smaller blocks. Figure 11 shows a breakdown of Residential land use area and canopy by suburb.

Figure 11: Canopy cover as a proportion of Residential land use area. Total canopy cover over total Residential land use area is 9.3%