- 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 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 | |||||||
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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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