WIND farms do not lower the value of neighbouring farms - just the number of potential buyers, a CSIRO study has found.

The study, Exploring community acceptance of rural wind farms in Australia, cited statistics gathered by the NSW Valuer General in 2009, which showed a property's value was not found to increase or decrease according to how close it was to a wind farm.

In all, 40 of the 45 properties assessed near six different wind farms across the state did not record a lower than expected sale price.

This was despite anecdotal reports of losses in value up to 40 per cent, the CSIRO study noted.

One of the landholders interviewed for the study said that while a nearby wind farm might not affect his property's value, it could limit the number of buyers, such as those seeking to subdivide.

The CSIRO's findings coincide with the latest survey of community acceptance by clean energy company, Pacific Hydro.

The survey, conducted in November last year, found 83 per cent of respondents supported wind farms.

The survey polled 1000 people in communities across Victoria, NSW and South Australia who live in areas where wind farms are operating or proposed.

"The majority of regional Australians support wind generation and continue to have positive attitudes towards wind farms in their local communities.

"It also confirms that wind energy is overwhelmingly more popular than non-renewable forms of energy," said Pacific Hydro general manager Australia Lane Crockett.

"We are keen to get a true picture of the support for wind farms in regional Australia and that is why we did not survey city dwellers as they are not the people that are living nearby," Mr Crockett said.

The greatest concern survey respondents had however was a depreciation of property values (five in 10 people), the effect on visual amenity (four in 10) and noise (four in 10).

Health problems were a worry for just one in 10 respondents, despite the media focus on this subject.