Wyong
  • Country: Australia
  • State: New South Wales
  • Location: 33°16'S 151°25'E
  • Wyong Council Area: 744.9 km2
  • Population (2001): 130,854
  • Postcodes: 2258, 2259, 2261, 2262, 2263
Wyong is a town New South Wales, Australia. It lies roughly 90km North of the Sydney CBD, located West of Tuggerah Lake, a large shallow coastal lake. It serves as the administrative centre for Wyong Shire Council.

Wyong Shire Council is a Local Government Area based around the coastal lake system of Tuggerah Lake, Budgewoi Lake and Lake Munmorah. It includes several several townships and suburban areas, including a coastal strip from the Bateau Bay up to Budgewoi (including the towns of The Entrance, Norah Head, Toukley) some lakeside towns and residential areas (Berkeley Vale, Tuggerah, Gorokan, Charmhaven) some inland towns on the coastal flat (Ourimbah, Wyong, Kangy Angy) and a sparsely populated region to the west with some rural townships (Yarramalong, Dooralong, Jilliby) and regions of native bush (Kulnura). Together with Gosford, it forms a region known as the Central Coast of NSW.

The council area is bounded

  • North by Lake Macquarie Council, the boundary running along the southern shore of Lake Macquarie, then through Wyee and then North-West between Lemon Tree and Cooranbong.
  • West by Cesnock Council.
  • South by Gosford Council, the boundary running Bateau Bay and Forresters Beach, through Tumbi Umbi, Holgate, Lisarow, Somersby and Kulnura,
  • East by the Pacific Ocean

Table of contents
1 Industries and Services
2 Statistics
3 External Links

Industries and Services

Statistics

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

Wyong NSW Australia
2001 1996 1991 2001 1996 1991 2001 1996 1991
Population
(incr. to 2001)		 130854 115999
(12.8%)		 100643
(30.0%)		 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)		 29599
(22.7%)		 1,313,350
(20.8%)		 3,912,475
(20.8%)
15-24
(proportion)		 14848
(11.4%)		 845,345
(13.4%)		 2,566,346
(13.6%)
25-44
(proportion)		 34720
(26.6%)		 1,880,360
(29.8%)		 5,591,476
(30.0%)
45-64
(proportion)		 28426
(21.8%)		 1,443,638
(22.9%)		 4,328,074
(23.1%)
65+
(proportion)		 22943
(17.6%)		 828,475
(13.1%)		 2,370,878
(12.5%)
Median age 37 xx xx 35 34 32 35 34 32
Australian-born 82.1% xx% xx% 70.5% 73.3% 75.1% 72.6% 74.5% 75.8%
Post-Secondary Education
Postgraduate xx% xx% xx% 3.4% 2.9% 2.1% 3.2% 2.7% 1.9%
Bachelor xx% xx% xx% 10.1% 8.0% 5.8% 9.7% 7.7% 5.7%
Diploma/Certificate xx% xx% xx% 22.7% 20.6% 19.8% 21.8% 19.6% 18.8%
(xx = work in progress)

See also: List of cities in Australia

External Links