List of places in New South Wales by population

This is a list of cities and towns in the Australian state of New South Wales with a population of 5,000 or greater as at the 2021 Census. The below figures represent the populations of the contiguous built-up areas of each city or town.

Rank	Urban centre	Population
		2001 census	2006 census	2011 census	2016 census	2021 census
1	Sydney	3,328,553	3,641,422	3,908,642	4,321,535	5,231,147
2	Newcastle	278,773	288,732	308,308	322,278	390,519
3	Central Coast (Region)	254,579	282,726	297,713	307,742	346,596
4	Wollongong	227,522	234,482	245,942	261,896	280,153
5	Maitland	53,391	61,431	67,132	78,015	87,019
6	Blue Mountains (Region)	73,675	74,067	75,942	76,904	78,121
7	Tweed Heads	44,655	51,788	55,553	59,776	60,124
8	Coffs Harbour	25,828	26,353	45,580	48,225	59,732
9	Wagga Wagga	44,272	46,735	46,913	48,263	57,010
10	Albury	42,005	43,787	45,627	47,974	56,093
11	Port Macquarie	37,696	39,219	41,491	44,814	47,693
12	Tamworth	32,440	33,475	36,131	33,885	43,875
13	Dubbo	30,860	30,574	32,327	34,339	43,516
14	Orange	31,923	31,544	34,992	37,182	41,232
15	Nowra - Bomaderry	24,700	27,478	27,988	30,853	38,682
16	Queanbeyan	29,752	34,084	35,878	36,348	37,688
17	Bathurst	26,920	28,992	31,294	33,587	37,395
18	Lismore	27,193	27,069	27,474	27,569	28,818
19	Bowral - Mittagong	16,582	18,953	19,726	21,394	24,557
20	Armidale	20,068	19,485	19,818	20,386	23,967
21	Goulburn	20,846	20,127	21,484	22,419	23,963
22	Cessnock	17,791	18,316	20,013	21,725	23,495
23	Nelson Bay	7,968	8,152	11,060	13,966	21,972
24	Kurri Kurri	12,317	12,532	13,057	16,792	20,631
25	Forster - Tuncurry	17,939	18,372	18,904	19,918	20,563
26	Griffith	15,937	16,182	17,616	18,874	19,505
27	Grafton	17,380	17,501	16,598	16,787	19,225
28	Ballina	16,517	16,477	15,963	16,506	18,629
29	Morisset - Cooranbong	N/A	N/A	16,918	18,741	18,129
30	Broken Hill	19,753	18,854	18,430	17,589	17,705
31	Batemans Bay	10,181	10,845	11,334	11,294	17,519
32	Ulladulla	9,585	10,298	12,137	13,054	17,026
33	Singleton	12,495	13,665	13,961	13,214	17,018
34	Taree	16,621	16,517	17,820	18,117	16,715
35	Kempsey	8,444	8,137	10,374	10,648	15,654
36	St Georges Basin - Sanctuary Point	7,604	8,343	9,242	10,143	15,259
37	Kiama	12,241	12,286	12,817	13,453	14,013
38	Raymond Terrace	12,428	12,700	13,217	13,302	13,453
39	Mudgee	8,603	8,249	9,830	10,966	12,563
40	Lithgow	11,023	11,298	11,143	11,530	12,385
41	Muswellbrook	10,010	10,222	11,042	10,404	12,272
42	Inverell	9,525	9,749	9,347	9,547	12,057
43	Merimbula	4,865	3,851	6,873	7,521	11,513
44	Parkes	9,785	9,826	10,026	9,964	11,324
45	Casino	9,150	9,400	9,629	9,982	10,930
46	Byron Bay	5,919	4,981	4,956	9,246	10,914
47	Young	6,821	7,141	6,960	7,170	10,610
48	Gunnedah	7,855	7,542	7,888	7,984	10,359
49	Cowra	8,691	8,430	8,107	8,225	10,145
50	Murwillumbah	7,543	7,952	8,523	9,245	9,501
51	Moss Vale	6,601	6,723	7,305	7,865	9,310
52	Leeton	6,898	6,828	6,733	6,931	9,170
53	Moree	9,247	8,083	7,720	7,383	8,962
54	Forbes	7,096	6,954	6,806	7,035	8,157
55	Lennox Head	5,809	5,496	5,764	6,096	7,687
56	Deniliquin	7,781	7,431	6,441	6,833	7,432
57	Narrabri	6,234	6,102	5,890	5,903	7,327
58	Moama	2,818	3,331	4,198	5,620	7,213
59	Cootamundra	5,486	5,566	5,579	5,669	6,885
60	Yass	4,884	5,333	5,591	5,466	6,763
61	Cooma	6,914	6,587	6,301	6,379	6,715
62	Nambucca Heads	6,121	5,873	6,222	6,327	6,675
63	Tumut	6,197	5,925	6,086	6,154	6,613
64	Wauchope	4,759	6,002	6,372	6,881	6,589
65	Yamba	5,621	5,514	6,032	6,043	6,405
66	Glen Innes	5,707	5,944	5,173	5,161	6,219
67	Woolgoolga	3,793	4,356	5,050	5,290	6,151
68	Alstonville	4,751	5,006	4,990	5,066	5,912
69	Wingham	4,660	4,812	5,313	5,374	5,395
70	South West Rocks	4,110	4,069	4,816	5,009	5,058

Notes

See also

• Demographics of Australia
• List of cities in Australia
• List of places in the Northern Territory by population
• List of places in Queensland by population
• List of places in South Australia by population
• List of places in Tasmania by population
• List of places in Victoria by population
• List of places in Western Australia by population