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Terranora, New South Wales

Terranora is a town in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, Australia. It is a part of the Tweed Shire local Government area and it is a suburb of Tweed Heads.

There are two schools: Terranora Public School and the senior campus of Lindisfarne Anglican Grammar School.

At the , Terranora had a population of 3,365 people.

The Ngandowal and Minyungbal speaking people of the Bundjalung people are the traditional owners of Terranora and the surrounding areas.

Origin of place name

Early European arrivals to the area, mostly cedar-getters, called the area Taranora and it was first colonised by them in the 1850s.

Taranora and the "modern" Terranora are believed to have been derived from a Bundjalung language word meaning .

Demographics

At the , Terranora recorded a population of 3,365 people, 49.4% male and 50.6% female.

The median age was 42, 4 years above the national median of 38.

82.3% of people living in Terranora were born in Australia. The other top responses for country of birth were England 4.0%, New Zealand 2.4%, India 0.6%, South Africa 0.4%, and Philippines 0.4%.

91.8% of people spoke only English at home; the next most common languages were 0.3% German, 0.3% Russian, 0.3% Malayalam, 0.3% Punjabi, and 0.3% Thai.

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