List of places in New South Wales by population

This is a list of cities and towns in the Australian state of New South Wales with a population of 5,000 or greater as at the 2016 Census. The below figures represent the populations of the contiguous built-up areas of each city or town.

Rank	Urban centre	Population
		2001 census[1]	2006 census[2]	2011 census[3]	2016 census[4]
1		Sydney	3,328,553	3,641,422	3,908,642	4,321,535
2		Newcastle	278,773	288,732	308,308	322,278
3	Central Coast	254,579	282,726	297,713	307,742
4	Wollongong	227,522	234,482	245,942	261,896
5	Maitland	53,391	61,431	67,132	78,015
6	Tweed Heads	44,655	51,788	55,553	59,776
7	Wagga Wagga	44,272	46,735	46,913	48,263
8	Coffs Harbour	25,828	26,353	45,580	48,225
9	Albury - Wodonga (Albury part)	42,005	43,787	45,627	47,974
10	Port Macquarie	37,696	39,219	41,491	44,814
11	Orange	31,923	31,544	34,992	37,182
12	Canberra - Queanbeyan (Queanbeyan part)	29,752	34,084	35,878	36,348
13	Dubbo	30,860	30,574	32,327	34,339
14	Tamworth	32,440	33,475	36,131	33,885
15	Bathurst	26,920	28,992	31,294	33,587
16	Nowra - Bomaderry	24,700	27,478	27,988	30,853
17	Blue Mountains	N/A	N/A	28,769	29,319
18	Lismore	27,193	27,069	27,474	27,569
19	Goulburn	20,846	20,127	21,484	22,419
20	Cessnock	17,791	18,316	20,013	21,725
21	Bowral - Mittagong	16,582	18,953	19,726	21,394
22	Armidale	20,068	19,485	19,818	20,386
23	Forster - Tuncurry	17,939	18,372	18,904	19,918
24	Griffith	15,937	16,182	17,616	18,874
25	Morisset - Cooranbong	N/A	N/A	16,918	18,741
26	Taree	16,621	16,517	17,820	18,117
27	Broken Hill	19,753	18,854	18,430	17,589
28	Kurri Kurri	12,317	12,532	13,057	16,792
29	Grafton	17,380	17,501	16,598	16,787
30	Ballina	16,517	16,477	15,963	16,506
31	Nelson Bay	7,968	8,152	11,060	13,966
32	Kiama	12,241	12,286	12,817	13,453
33	Raymond Terrace	12,428	12,700	13,217	13,302
34	Singleton	12,495	13,665	13,961	13,214
35	Ulladulla	9,585	10,298	12,137	13,054
36	Lithgow	11,023	11,298	11,143	11,530
37	Batemans Bay	10,181	10,845	11,334	11,294
38	Mudgee	8,603	8,249	9,830	10,966
39	Kempsey	8,444	8,137	10,374	10,648
40	Muswellbrook	10,010	10,222	11,042	10,404
41	St Georges Basin - Sanctuary Point	7,604	8,343	9,242	10,143
42	Casino	9,150	9,400	9,629	9,982
43	Parkes	9,785	9,826	10,026	9,964
44	Inverell	9,525	9,749	9,347	9,547
45	Byron Bay	5,919	4,981	4,956	9,246
46	Murwillumbah	7,543	7,952	8,523	9,245
47	Cowra	8,691	8,430	8,107	8,225
48	Gunnedah	7,855	7,542	7,888	7,984
49	Moss Vale	6,601	6,723	7,305	7,865
50	Merimbula	4,865	3,851	6,873	7,521
51	Moree	9,247	8,083	7,720	7,383
52	Young	6,821	7,141	6,960	7,170
53	Forbes	7,096	6,954	6,806	7,035
54	Leeton	6,898	6,828	6,733	6,931
55	Deniliquin	7,781	7,431	6,441	6,833
56	Cooma	6,914	6,587	6,301	6,379
57	Nambucca Heads	6,121	5,873	6,222	6,327
58	Tumut	6,197	5,925	6,086	6,154
59	Lennox Head	5,809	5,496	5,764	6,096
60	Yamba	5,621	5,514	6,032	6,043
61	Narrabri	6,234	6,102	5,890	5,903
62	Cootamundra	5,486	5,566	5,579	5,669
63	Moama	2,818	3,331	4,198	5,620
64	Yass	4,884	5,333	5,591	5,466
65	Glen Innes	5,707	5,944	5,173	5,161
66	South West Rocks	4,110	4,069	4,816	5,009

Notes

See also

• Demographics of Australia
• List of cities in Australia
• List of places in South Australia by population
• List of places in Queensland by population
• List of places in Western Australia by population
• List of places in Victoria by population

References

1. Australian Bureau of Statistics TableBuilder: 2001 Census - Persons and Relationships - persons counted by Urban Centres and Localities
2. Australian Bureau of Statistics TableBuilder: 2006 Census - Cultural Diversity - Persons (Place of Usual Residence) counted by Urban Centres and Localities
3. Australian Bureau of Statistics TableBuilder: 2011 Census - Persons and Relationships - persons counted by Urban Centres and Localities
4. Australian Bureau of Statistics TableBuilder: 2016 Census - Cultural Diversity - Persons (Place of Usual Residence) counted by Urban Centres and Localities