Kandos, New South Wales

Kandos is a rural town located within the Mid-Western Region in New South Wales, Australia. The area is the traditional home of the Dabee tribe of the Wiradjuri people. Kandos and neighboring town Rylstone (located 7 kilometers away) have a shared community that is connected through farming, events, the arts and Aboriginal culture. Kandos is within an hours drive of Mudgee, and within two of Lithgow and Bathurst. It is a three hour drive from Sydney (via the Blue Mountains and Castlereagh Highway); and Newcastle (via Bylong Valley Way). In the 2021 census, Kandos had a population of 1263.