Cuthbert is a town and
locality
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of the
City of Albany
The City of Albany is a local government area in the Great Southern region of Western Australia, about south-southeast of Perth, the capital of Western Australia. It covers an area of , including the Greater Albany metropolitan area and the ...
in the
Great Southern region of Western Australia.
Cuthbert is about west of the
Albany city center.
Cuthbert was originally established as a siding on the
Great Southern Railway and called Eastwood at the time. In 1909 the decision was made to establish a town site at Eastwood but the name was already in use in three other Australian states and therefore deemed unsuitable. The alternative names of Karajinup and Atwell were considered but, eventually, Werillup was chosen and the townsite was gazetted in 1914. Werillup, meaning "place of swamps", was rejected as a name the following year and the town was officially renamed to Cuthbert in September 1916, after an early European settler.
Demographics
As of the
2021 Australian census
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, 157 people resided in Cuthbert,
up from 156 in the .
The
median
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age of persons in Cuthbert was 48 years. There were fewer males than females, with 48.1% of the population male and 51.9% female. The average household size was 2.5 people per household.
References
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City of Albany, Western Australia