page_title: Nambucca Valley Council
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Nambucca Valley Council / Demographics
caption_attribution_description: English: Nambucca Heads aerial panorama
context_page_description: Nambucca Valley Council is a local government area in the mid north coast region of New South Wales, Australia.
  The shire services an area of 1,491 square kilometres and is located adjacent to the Pacific Highway and the North Coast railway line. At the 2016 census, Nambucca Valley Council had a high proportion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people residing within its boundaries; being 7.6 per cent of the population, nearly treble the national and state averages of 2.8 and 2.9 per cent respectively. Within the Shire's boundaries is Bowraville, one of the most socially disadvantaged areas in Australia.
  The Mayor of the Nambucca Valley Council is Rhonda Hoban, an independent politician.
  The local government area was created on 15 December 1915, from land excised from Bellingen Shire, and was originally called Nambucca Shire. The area was renamed Nambucca Valley from 4 December 2019.
context_section_description: At the 2016 census, there were 19,212 people in the Nambucca Valley local government area, of these 49 per cent were male and 51 per cent were female. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people made up 7.6 per cent of the population, nearly treble the national and state averages of 2.8 and 2.9 per cent respectively. The median age of people in the Nambucca Valley Council was 51 years; some thirteen years higher than the national median. Children aged 0 – 14 years made up 16.6 per cent of the population and people aged 65 years and over made up 27.6 per cent of the population. Of people in the area aged 15 years and over, 44.9 per cent were married and 17 per cent were either divorced or separated.
  The median weekly income for residents within the Nambucca Valley Council was significantly below the national average, being one of the factors that place parts of the Nambucca Valley Council in an area of social disadvantage.
  significantly higher proportion (90.1 per cent) where English only was spoken at home (national average was 72.7 per cent). Of the 90 Australian residents who stated that they speak Gumbaynggir, an Australian Aboriginal language, 28 live within the Nambucca Valley Council.
caption: Nambucca Heads aerial panorama
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