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| Coordinates: 28°17′0″S 153°33′0″E / 28.28333°S 153.55000°E | |||||||||||||
| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | New South Wales | ||||||||||||
| Region | NSW | ||||||||||||
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| Elevation | 32 m (105 ft) | ||||||||||||
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| • Total | 857 (2016 census)[2] | ||||||||||||
| Time zone | UTC+10 (AEST) | ||||||||||||
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+11 (AEDT) | ||||||||||||
| Postcode | 2487 | ||||||||||||
| County | Australia | ||||||||||||
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Cudgen (/kʌdʒən/) is a town located in north-eastern New South Wales, Australia. It sits within the Tweed Shire local government area and it is 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) from the regional centre of Tweed Heads.
It is built on the land of the Coodjingburra clan of the Minyungbal people of the Yugambeh nation.[3][4] The name Cudgen is derived from the Yugambe language word kidhin which means 'red clay'.[5][6]
Demographics
[edit]In the 2016 Census,[7] Cudgen recorded a population of 857 people, 50% female and 50% male.
The median age of the Cudgen population was 39 years, 2 years above the national median of 37.
85.4% of people living in Cudgen were born in Australia. The other top responses for country of birth were England 3.1%, New Zealand 1.5%, Thailand 0.6%, Scotland 0.5%, Japan 0.5%.
94.1% of people spoke only English at home; the next most common languages were 0.9% Japanese, 0.4% Turkish, 0.4% Italian, 0.4% Thai, 0.4% Czech.
Sport and recreation
[edit]The Cudgen Hornets is the local rugby league club that competes in the Northern Rivers Regional Rugby League competition.
References
[edit]- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Cudgen (urban centre and locality)". Australian Census 2021.
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (31 October 2012). "Cudgen (State Suburb)". 2011 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
- ^ "Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander". www.tweed.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 5 September 2025.
- ^ "Aboriginal cultural heritage". museum.tweed.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 5 September 2025.
- ^ Rankin, T (1898). "Aboriginal Place Names and Other Words, with their Meanings, Peculiar to the Richmond and Tweed River Districts". Science of man and journal of the Royal Anthropological Society of Australasia. Retrieved 5 September 2025 – via Trove.
- ^ "NSW Place and Road Naming Proposals System". proposals.gnb.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 5 September 2025.
- ^ "2016 Census QuickStats: Cudgen". censusdata.abs.gov.au. Retrieved 8 November 2017.
