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| Camden Council New South Wales | |||||||||||||||
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 Location in Metropolitan Sydney | |||||||||||||||
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| Coordinates | 34°03′S 150°42′E / 34.050°S 150.700°E | ||||||||||||||
| Population | 119,325 (2021 census)[1] | ||||||||||||||
| • Density | 593.7/km2 (1,538/sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Established | 6 February 1889[2] | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 201 km2 (77.6 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Mayor | Ashleigh Cagney (Labor) | ||||||||||||||
| Council seat | Oran Park | ||||||||||||||
| Region | Greater Western Sydney | ||||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Camden | ||||||||||||||
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| Website | Camden Council | ||||||||||||||
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Camden Council is a local government area in the Macarthur region of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. The area is located south west of the Sydney central business district and comprises 201 square kilometres (78 sq mi) with an estimated population at the 2021 census of 119,325. The mayor of Camden is Cr. Ashleigh Cagney, a member of the Labor Party.
Suburbs in the local government area
Suburbs serviced by Camden Council are:
Demographics
At the 2021 census there were 119,325 people in the Camden local government area, of these 49.1 per cent were male and 50.9 per cents were female. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people made up 3.2 per cent of the population; similar to the NSW and Australian averages of 3.4 and 3.2 per cent respectively. The median age of people in the Camden Council area was 33 years, which is significantly lower than the national median of 38 years. Children aged 0 – 14 years made up 25.3 per cent of the population and people aged 65 years and over made up 9.9 per cent of the population. Of people in the area aged 15 years and over, 54.0 per cent were married and 10.9 per cent were either divorced or separated.[3]
Population growth in the Camden Council area between the 2001 census and the 2006 census was 13.35 per cent; in the subsequent five years to the 2011 census, population growth was 14.25 per cent. At the 2016 census, the population in the Camden local government area increased by 37.9 per cent. When compared with total population growth of Australia for the same period, being 8.8 per cent, population growth in Camden local government area was in excess of four times the national average.[4][5][6][3] The median weekly income for residents within the Camden Council area was generally slightly higher than the national average.[3]
At the 2021 census, the proportion of residents in the Camden local government area who stated their ancestry as Australian or Anglo-Saxon approached 70% of all residents. In excess of 58.0% of residents in the Camden Council area nominated a religious affiliation with Christianity at the 2021 census, compared with the national average of 43.9%; and the proportion of residents with no religion was about half the national average. Meanwhile, as at the 2021 census date, compared to the national average, households in the Camden local government area had a slighter higher proportion (22.5 per cent) where two or more languages are spoken (national average was 22.3 per cent); and had a similar proportion (74.0 per cent) where English only was spoken at home (national average was 72.0 per cent).[1]
| Selected historical census data for Camden local government area | |||||||
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| Census year | 2001[4] | 2006[5] | 2011[6] | 2016[3] | 2021[1] | ||
| Population | Estimated residents on census night | 43,799 |  49,645 |
56,720 |
78,218 |
119,325
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| LGA rank in terms of size within New South Wales | 39th | 28th |
24th
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| % of New South Wales population | 0.82% | 1.05% |
1.48%
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| % of Australian population | 0.23% | 0.25% |
0.26% |
0.33% |
0.47%
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| Median weekly incomes | |||||||
| Personal income | Median weekly personal income | A$566 | A$690 | A$821 | A$984 | ||
| % of Australian median income | 121.5% | 119.6% | 124.0% | 122.2% | |||
| Family income | Median weekly family income | A$1,353 | A$1,865 | A$2,161 | A$2,487 | ||
| % of Australian median income | 131.7% | 125.9% | 124.6% | 117.3% | |||
| Household income | Median weekly household income | A$1,465 | A$1,727 | A$2,047 | A$2,353 | ||
| % of Australian median income | 125.1% | 140.0% | 142.4% | 134.8% | |||
| Selected historical census data for Camden local government area | |||||||||
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| Ancestry, top responses | |||||||||
| 2001[4] | 2006[5] | 2011[6] | 2016[3] | 2021[1] | |||||
| No Data | No Data | Australian | 31.1% | Australian |  27.0% |
Australian | 32.7%
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| English | 27.2% | English | 25.1% |
English | 28.9%
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| Irish | 7.2% | Irish | 7.4% |
Irish | 7.6%
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| Scottish | 6.1% | Scottish | 6.0% |
Italian | 7.4%
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| Italian | 4.6% | Italian | 5.0% |
Scottish | 6.7%
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| Country of Birth, top responses | |||||||||
| 2001[4] | 2006[5] | 2011[6] | 2016[3] | 2021[1] | |||||
| Australia | 79.8% | Australia |  79.8% |
Australia | 80.2% |
Australia | 77.4% |
Australia | 74.1%
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| England | 4.9% | England | 4.3% |
England | 4.0% |
England | 3.1% |
India | 2.4%
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| New Zealand | 1.3% | New Zealand | 1.0% |
New Zealand | 1.1% |
New Zealand | 1.3% |
England | 2.3%
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| Italy | 0.9% | Italy | 0.9% |
Italy | 0.9% |
India | 0.9% |
New Zealand | 1.5%
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| Scotland | 0.9% | Scotland | 0.8% |
Scotland | 0.8% |
Philippines | 0.7% |
Philippines | 1.3%
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| China | 0.5% | China | 0.5% |
China | 0.5% |
Fiji | 0.7% |
Iraq | 1.1%
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| Language, top responses (other than English) | |||||||||
| 2001[4] | 2006[5] | 2011[6] | 2016[3] | 2021[1] | |||||
| Italian | 1.7% | Italian | 1.6% |
Italian | 1.5% |
Arabic | 1.4% |
Arabic | 2.3%
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| Spanish | 0.7% | Spanish | 0.8% |
Spanish | 0.9% |
Italian | 1.3% |
Spanish | 1.6%
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| Cantonese | 0.7% | Arabic | 0.7% |
Arabic | 0.8% |
Spanish | 1.3% |
Hindi | 1.5%
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| Arabic | 0.6% | Cantonese | 0.7% |
Cantonese | 0.6% |
Hindi | 0.9% |
Punjabi | 1.1%
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| Maltese | 0.5% | Croatian | 0.5% | Maltese | 0.4% |
Mandarin | 0.7% |
Italian | 1.1%
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| Religious affiliation, top responses | |||||||||
| 2001[4] | 2006[5] | 2011[6] | 2016[3] | 2021[1] | |||||
| Catholic | 33.5% | Catholic | 34.7% |
Catholic | 35.4% |
Catholic | 34.4% |
Catholic | 31.7%
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| Anglican | 30.9% | Anglican | 29.1% |
Anglican | 28.3% |
Anglican | 21.4% |
No Religion | 25.1%
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| No Religion | 9.6% | No Religion | 11.3% |
No Religion | 12.9% |
No Religion | 18.9% |
Anglican | 13.9%
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| United Church | 4.8% | United Church | 4.0% |
United Church | 3.5% |
Not Stated | 6.6% |
Islam | 4.8%
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| Presbyterian and Reformed |
3.0% | Presbyterian and Reformed |
2.6% |
Presbyterian and Reformed |
2.4% |
Uniting Church | 2.4% |
Not Stated | 4.3%
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Council
Current composition and election method
Camden Council is composed of nine councillors elected proportionally as three separate wards, each electing three councillors. All councillors are elected for a fixed four-year term of office. The mayor is elected by the councillors at the first meeting of the council. The most recent election was held on 4 December 2021, and the makeup of the council is as follows:[7][8][9]
| Party | Councillors | |
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| Liberal Party | 4 | |
| Labor | 3 | |
| Independents | 2 | |
| Total | 9 | |
The current Council, elected in 2021, in order of election by ward, is:
| Ward | Councillor | Party | Notes | |
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| Central Ward[7] | Therese Fedeli | Liberal | Deputy Mayor[10] | |
| Ashleigh Cagney | Labor | Mayor[10] | ||
| Peter McLean | Independent | |||
| North Ward[8] | Lara Symkowiak | Liberal | ||
| Cindy Cagney | Labor | |||
| Usha Dommaraju | Liberal | |||
| South Ward[9] | Eva Campbell | Independent | ||
| Paul Farrow | Labor | |||
| Russel Zammit | Liberal | |||