Cudgen
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Cudgen (/kʌdʒən/) is a town in north-eastern New South Wales, Australia. It sits within the Tweed Shire local government area and it is 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) from the regional centre of Tweed Heads.
It is built on the land of the Coodjingburra clan of the Minyungbal people of the Yugambeh nation.[2][3] The name Cudgen is derived from the Yugambe language word kidhin which means 'red clay'.[4][5]
Demographics
In the 2016 Census,[6] Cudgen recorded a population of 857 people, 50% female and 50% male.
The median age of the Cudgen population was 39 years, 2 years above the national median of 37.
85.4% of people living in Cudgen were born in Australia. The other top responses for country of birth were England 3.1%, New Zealand 1.5%, Thailand 0.6%, Scotland 0.5%, Japan 0.5%.
94.1% of people spoke only English at home; the next most common languages were 0.9% Japanese, 0.4% Turkish, 0.4% Italian, 0.4% Thai, 0.4% Czech.
Sport and recreation
The Cudgen Hornets is the local rugby league club that competes in the Northern Rivers Regional Rugby League competition.
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander". www.tweed.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 5 September 2025.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Aboriginal cultural heritage". museum.tweed.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 5 September 2025.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Rankin, T (1898). "Aboriginal Place Names and Other Words, with their Meanings, Peculiar to the Richmond and Tweed River Districts". Science of man and journal of the Royal Anthropological Society of Australasia. Retrieved 5 September 2025 – via Trove.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."NSW Place and Road Naming Proposals System". proposals.gnb.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 5 September 2025.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."2016 Census QuickStats: Cudgen". censusdata.abs.gov.au. Retrieved 8 November 2017.
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