Gosford
  • Country: Australia
  • State: New South Wales
  • Location: 33°22'S 151°20'E
  • Gosford Council Area: 940.2 km2
  • Population (2001): 154,654
  • Postcodes: 2250, 2251, 2256, 2257, 2260
Gosford is a town New South Wales, Australia. It lies roughly 70km North of the Sydney CBD, located at the Northern end of Brisbane water, the Northern branch of the Hawkesbury River/Broken Bay estuary. It serves as the administrative centre for Gosford City Council.

Gosford City council is a Local Government Area including a moderately-densely populated coastal strip from the Hawkesbury River up to Forresters Beach (including the towns of Killcare, MacMasters Beach, Avoca, Terrigal and Wamberal) some inland towns and residential areas (Kincumber, Erina, Gosford, Wyoming, Woy Woy) and a sparsely populated region to the west that is largely native bush. Together with Wyong, it forms a region known as the Central Coast of NSW.

The council area is bounded

  • North by Wyong Council, the boundary running between Bateau Bay and Forresters Beach, through Tumbi Umbi, Holgate, Lisarow, Somersby and Kulnura,
  • West by Hawkesbury Council, the boundary running through Dharug National Park to just East of Wiseman's Ferry on the Hawkesbury
  • South by the Hawkesbury River, with Hornsby and Pittwater Councils being South of the river
  • East by the Pacific Ocean

Statistics

Some brief statistics from the 2001 Australian Census, Australian Bureau of Statistics http://www.abs.gov.au/

Gosford NSW Australia
2001 1996 1991 2001 1996 1991 2001 1996 1991
Population
(incr. to 2001)		 154,654 144,840
(6.8%)		 128,781
(20.1%)		 6,371,745 6,038,696
(3.3%)		 5,732,032
(11.2%)		 18,972,350 17,892,423
(6.0%)		 16,850,334
(12.6%)
0-14
(proportion)		 32,866
(21.3%)		 1,313,350
(20.8%)		 3,912,475
(20.8%)
15-24
(proportion)		 17,905
(11.6%)		 845,345
(13.4%)		 2,566,346
(13.6%)
25-44
(proportion)		 35,075
(22.8%)		 1,880,360
(29.8%)		 5,591,476
(30.0%)
45-64
(proportion)		 41,248
(26.8%)		 1,443,638
(22.9%)		 4,328,074
(23.1%)
65+
(proportion)		 26,951
(17.5%)		 828,475
(13.1%)		 2,370,878
(12.5%)
Median age 38 36 35 35 34 32 35 34 32
Australian-born 80.2% 82.4% 83.8% 70.5% 73.3% 75.1% 72.6% 74.5% 75.8%
Post-Secondary Education
Postgraduate 2.3% 1.9% 1.4% 3.4% 2.9% 2.1% 3.2% 2.7% 1.9%
Bachelor 7.3% 5.4% 3.8% 10.1% 8.0% 5.8% 9.7% 7.7% 5.7%
Diploma/Certificate 26.1% 23.5% 22.6% 22.7% 20.6% 19.8% 21.8% 19.6% 18.8%

See also: List of cities in Australia

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