List of towns and cities in Australia by year of settlement

Old Government House, Parramatta, circa 1799

Old Military Barracks, now Legislative Assembly Chambers, Kingston, Norfolk Island

Historic Ross Bridge with the Uniting Church in the background

This is a list of towns and cites in Australia by year of settlement.

18th Century

Year	Town/City	State	Notes
1788	Sydney	New South Wales	[1]
1788	Parramatta	New South Wales	Second oldest settlement in Australia.[2] Now a part of Sydney.
1788	Kingston	Norfolk Island
1791	Windsor	New South Wales	Third-oldest place of British settlement on the Australian continent
1798	Liverpool	New South Wales	[3]

1800s

Year	Town/City	State	Notes
1803	Hobart	Tasmania	[4]
1804	George Town	Tasmania
1804	Newcastle	New South Wales
1806	Launceston	Tasmania
1807	New Norfolk	Tasmania
1808	Sorell	Tasmania

1810s

Year	Town/City	State	Notes
1812	Ross	Tasmania
1813	Longford	Tasmania
1814	Bathurst	New South Wales	Oldest inland settlement in Australia
1818	Penrith	New South Wales

1820s

Year	Town/City	State	Notes
1820	Maitland	New South Wales
1821	Port Macquarie	New South Wales
1823	Gosford	New South Wales
1823	Richmond	Tasmania
1824	Redcliffe	Queensland	First European settlement in Queensland
1825	Brisbane	Queensland
1826	King George's Sound (Albany)	Western Australia	Oldest settlement in the western half of Australia
1827	Burnie	Tasmania
1829	Perth	Western Australia
1829	Fremantle	Western Australia
1829	Guildford	Western Australia

1830s

Year	Town/City	State	Notes
1830	Augusta	Western Australia
1830	Berrima	New South Wales
1830	Port Arthur	Tasmania	[5]
1831	Taree	New South Wales
1832	Busselton	Western Australia
1833	Northam	Western Australia
1833	Goulburn	New South Wales
1833	Muswellbrook	New South Wales
1834	Portland	Victoria
1834	Wollongong	New South Wales
1835	York	Western Australia	[6][7]
1835	Melbourne	Victoria
1836	Adelaide	South Australia
1836	Bunbury	Western Australia
1836	Gawler	South Australia
1836	Holbrook	New South Wales
1836	Kempsey	New South Wales
1836	Sunbury	Victoria
1836	Wauchope	New South Wales
1837	Bungendore	New South Wales
1837	Dandenong	Victoria
1837	Southport	Tasmania	Most southern township in Australia
1837	Yass	New South Wales
1838	Ballarat	Victoria
1838	Geelong	Victoria
1838	Gundagai	New South Wales
1838	Queanbeyan	New South Wales
1839	Albury	New South Wales
1839	Mount Barker	South Australia
1839	Port Lincoln	South Australia
1839	Seymour	Victoria

1840s

Year	Town/City	State	Notes
1840s	Benalla	Victoria
1840s	Dalby	Queensland
1840s	Traralgon	Victoria
1840s	Toowoomba	Queensland
1842	Ballina	New South Wales	[8]
1843	Boydtown	New South Wales
1843	Eden	New South Wales
1843	Wangaratta	Victoria
1844	Bacchus Marsh	Victoria
1844	Tweed Heads	New South Wales
1845	Jimboomba	Queensland
1845	Port Pirie	South Australia
1846	Ipswich	Queensland
1846	Orange	New South Wales
1847	Maryborough	Queensland
1847	Rockingham	Western Australia
1847	Wagga Wagga	New South Wales
1849	Armidale	New South Wales
1849	Cooma	New South Wales
1849	Dubbo	New South Wales

1850s

Year	Town/City	State	Notes
1850	Cessnock	New South Wales
1850	Geraldton	Western Australia
1850	Warwick	Queensland
1850	Tamworth	New South Wales
1851	Bega	New South Wales	[9]
1851	Bendigo	Victoria
1851	Castlemaine	Victoria
1851	Grafton	New South Wales
1851	Hamilton	Victoria
1851	Sale	Victoria
1851	Tenterfield	New South Wales
1852	Bordertown	South Australia
1852	Daylesford	Victoria
1852	Glen Innes	New South Wales
1852	Lismore	New South Wales
1852	Mount Gambier	South Australia
1852	Nowra	New South Wales
1852	Port Augusta	South Australia
1852	Wodonga	Victoria
1853	Beechworth	Victoria
1853	Goolwa	South Australia
1853	Port Gregory	Western Australia
1854	Colac	Victoria
1854	Echuca	Victoria
1854	Devonport	Tasmania
1854	Gladstone	Queensland
1855	Gatton	Queensland
1855	Warrnambool	Victoria
1856	Inverell	New South Wales
1857	Ararat	Victoria
1857	Ulverstone	Tasmania
1858	Laidley	Queensland
1858	Rockhampton	Queensland
1858	Corowa	New South Wales
1859	Hay	New South Wales
1859	Walgett	New South Wales

1860s

Year	Town/City	State	Notes
1860	Bairnsdale	Victoria	[10]
1860	Barnawartha	Victoria
1860	Shepparton	Victoria
1861	Bowen	Queensland
1861	Bowral	New South Wales
1862	Moree	New South Wales
1862	St George	Queensland
1862	Tharwa	Australian Capital Territory	Oldest official settlement in the Australian Capital Territory
1863	Cossack	Western Australia	First town in northwest Australia
1863	Tambo	Queensland	Oldest town in western Queensland
1863	Victor Harbor	South Australia
1863	Walhalla	Victoria
1864	Northampton	Western Australia
1864	Ingham	Queensland
1864	Mitchell	Queensland
1865	Burketown	Queensland	[11]
1865	Charleville	Queensland
1865	Townsville	Queensland
1867	Cloncurry	Queensland
1867	Gympie	Queensland
1867	Nambucca Heads	New South Wales
1867	Normanton	Queensland
1867	Roma	Queensland
1868	Cunnamulla	Queensland
1868	Yeppoon	Queensland
1869	Darwin	Northern Territory

1870s

Year	Town/City	State	Notes
1870s	Beaudesert	Queensland
1870s	Coffs Harbour	New South Wales
1870s	Lithgow	New South Wales
1870s	Mackay	Queensland
1870s	Morwell	Victoria
1870	Bundaberg	Queensland
1870	Nagambie	Victoria
1870	Nambour	Queensland
1870	Oakey	Queensland
1871	Charters Towers	Queensland
1871	Landsborough	Queensland
1871	Southport	Queensland
1871	Tewantin	Queensland
1872	Adelaide River	Northern Territory
1872	Esk	Queensland
1872	Stanthorpe	Queensland
1872	Alice Springs	Northern Territory
1873	Cooktown	Queensland
1873	Parkes	New South Wales
1876	Cairns	Queensland
1876	Pittsworth	Queensland
1876	Winton	Queensland
1877	Chinchilla	Queensland
1877	Warragul	Victoria
1878	Farina	South Australia
1878	Killarney	Queensland
1878	Miles	Queensland
1879	Boulia	Queensland
1879	Emerald	Queensland
1879	Innisfail	Queensland
1879	Katoomba	New South Wales
1879	Moe	Victoria

1880s

Year	Town/City	State	Notes
1883	Broome	Western Australia
1883	Derby	Western Australia
1882	Ary	Queensland
1882	Boonah	Queensland
1882	Hall	Australian Capital Territory
1882	Mount Morgan	Queensland
1883	Broken Hill	New South Wales
1883	Caloundra	Queensland
1883	Captains Flat	New South Wales
1883	Narromine	New South Wales
1884	Camooweal	Queensland
1885	Batemans Bay	New South Wales
1885	Childers	Queensland
1885	Old Onslow	Western Australia	Abandoned 1925
1885	Wallangarra	Queensland
1886	Wyndham	Western Australia
1887	Birdsville	Queensland
1887	Blackbutt	Queensland
1887	Mildura	Victoria
1887	Mittagong	New South Wales
1888	Goondiwindi	Queensland
1888	Kilcoy	Queensland
1888	Longreach	Queensland

1890s

Year	Town/City	State	Notes
1890s	Kingaroy	Queensland
1891	Maleny	Queensland
1892	Coolgardie	Western Australia	[12]
1893	Kalgoorlie	Western Australia
1896	Esperance	Western Australia
1896	Port Hedland	Western Australia

Post Federation

Year	Town/City	State	Notes
1904	Kyogle	New South Wales
1904	Renmark	South Australia
1911	Berri	South Australia
1913	Canberra	Australian Capital Territory
1913	Leeton	New South Wales
1915	Coober Pedy	South Australia
1916	Griffith	New South Wales
1917	Quilpie	Queensland
1920	Port Augusta	South Australia
1920	Whyalla	South Australia
1923	Mount Isa	Queensland
1924	Onslow	Western Australia	Moved from Old Onslow
1924	Biloela	Queensland
1924	Monto	Queensland
1924	Murray Bridge	South Australia
1926	Katherine	Northern Territory
1961	Kununurra	Western Australia
1961	Weipa	Queensland
1965	Dampier	Western Australia
1967	Exmouth	Western Australia
1968	Karratha	Western Australia
1969	Moranbah	Queensland
1980s	Joondalup	Western Australia
1981	Palmerston	Northern Territory
1982	Jabiru	Northern Territory
1987	Roxby Downs	South Australia

See also

• History of Australia
• List of cities by time of continuous habitation

Notes

1. Colwell 2000, p. 13.
2. Rolfe 1969, p. 214.
3. "Liverpool timeline". Liverpool City Council. Retrieved 11 November 2015.
4. Colwell 2000, p. 36.
5. Colwell 2000, p. 9.
6. "Government Notice". The Perth Gazette and Western Australian Journal. 11 July 1835. p. 526. Retrieved 22 January 2016.
7. "Perth Surrounds". State Heritage Office. Government of Western Australia. 10 June 2013. Retrieved 22 January 2016.
8. "The Shire's European History at a Glance". Ballina Shire Council. January 2013. Retrieved 16 April 2015.
9. "Travel: Bega". Sydney Morning Herald. Sydney: Fairfax Media. 26 June 2008. Retrieved 25 February 2015.
10. "Bairnsdale, Victoria". Australian Places. Monash University. 1999. Archived from the original on 4 April 2004. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
11. Eussen 2007, p. 33.
12. Ford 2001, p. 14.

References

• Colwell, Dan (2000). Australia. This Way. Hunter Publishing. ISBN 9782884521444.
• Eussen, Dick (2007). Australia's Savannah Way: Cairns to Broome. Australian Fishing Network. ISBN 9781865131115.
• Ford, Lyall (2001). Poorhouse to Paradise: The Adventures of a Pioneering Family in a North Queensland Town. Freshwater, Queensland: Taipan Press. ISBN 0646332546.
• Rolfe, Patricia (1969). The Sydney Guide Book. Sydney: Angus & Robertson. ISBN 9780207951534.