Population
The Australian Bureau of Statistics considers the Central Coast to be part of the Sydney Statistical Division. However, it also identifies the Central Coast as the Gosford-Wyong Statistical Region. At the 2006 census the population of this region was 297,956. The most populous suburb in the Wyong Shire is Bateau Bay with a population of 11,599. The most populous suburb in the City of Gosford is Umina Beach with a population of 15,392.
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“A multitude of little superfluous precautions engender here a population of deputies and sub-officials, each of whom acquits himself with an air of importance and a rigorous precision, which seemed to say, though everything is done with much silence, “Make way, I am one of the members of the grand machine of state.””
—Marquis De Custine (1790–1857)
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—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)