Gundagai - Demographics

Demographics

The Australian Bureau of Statistics National Regional Profile of population in the Gundagai Shire states that 1.9% of the total Gundagai Shire population in 2001 was Indigenous. Thereafter the number of Indigenous people in the Gundagai Shire is noted as not applicable.

In 1850, 1140 Aboriginal people were recorded in the Murrumbidgee District, comprising eight tribes, one of which was the Gundagai group of forty Aboriginal people.

In 1911 the total population of Gundagai Shire was 1,921. It changed little in the course of the twentieth century being 2,308 at the time of the 1981 census and 1,998 at the 2006 census.

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