Eungella, New South Wales
Town in New South Wales, Australia
Eungella is a town in north-eastern New South Wales, Australia, in the Tweed Shire. It is located on the Oxley River and on the Tyalgum Road from Murwillumbah to Tyalgum.
The Ngandowal and Minyungbal speaking people of the Bundjalung people are the traditional owners of the Tweed region, including Eungella, and the surrounding areas.
Demographics
In the 2011 census, Eungella recorded a population of 285 people, 48.4% female and 51.6% male.
The median age of the Eungella population was 40 years, 3 years above the national median of 37.
81.8% of people living in Eungella were born in Australia. The other top responses for country of birth were New Zealand 3.8%, England 3.5%, Germany 1%, Croatia 1%, Myanmar (Burma) 1%.
93.4% of people spoke only English at home; the next most common languages were 1% Tamil, 1% Croatian, 1% French, 1% Bengali, 1% Greek.
“Eungella, New South Wales” enters the record as town in New South Wales, Australia. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Eungella, South and Wales can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16891166. Authority coordinates are -28.348, 153.301. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2011.
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