Cossack is a suburb of the town of

Katherine Katherine (), also spelled Catherine and Catherina, other variations, is a feminine given name. The name and its variants are popular in countries where large Christian populations exist, because of its associations with one of the earliest Ch ...

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. It is within the Katherine Town Council

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. The area was officially defined as a suburb in April 2007, adopting the name from

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farmers who settled in the area. The locality consists mostly of rural land holdings mixed with some smaller farms and residences, however there is also a small industrial area and

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close to the

Stuart Highway Stuart Highway is a major Australian highway. It runs from Darwin, Northern Territory, Darwin, in the Northern Territory, via Tennant Creek and Alice Springs, to Port Augusta in South Australia; it has a distance of . Its northern and souther ...

Demographics

As of the

2021 Australian census The 2021 Australian census, simply called the 2021 Census, was the eighteenth national Census of Population and Housing in Australia. The 2021 Census took place on 10 August 2021, and was conducted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). ...

, 1,293 people resided in Cossack, up from 1,223 in the . The

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age of persons in Cossack was 39 years. There were more males than females, with 51.1% of the population male and 48.9% female. The average household size was 2.8 people per household.

References

Suburbs of Katherine, Northern Territory {{NorthernTerritory-geo-stub