Cattle numbers – as at June 2015
Natural Resource Management Region
National cattle numbers
27.4 million head
Northern Territory 2,114,568 head
Cape York 90,737 head
NT
2.1
million
WA
2.4 million
Northern Gulf 780,927 head
Southern Gulf 1,190,908 head
Qld
11.3 million
SA
1.1 million
Wet Tropics 174,058 head
Burdekin 1,140,127 head
NSW
5.6 million
Desert Channels 1,402,449 head
Rangelands 1,282,621 head
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Mackay Whitsunday 145,299 head
Fitzroy 2,893,669 head
Vic
7
5
4.1 million
South West Qld 551,758 head
2
Burnett Mary 921,320 head
Tas
0.7 million
Top 20 cattle regions
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NRM region
Fitzroy
Northern Territory
Desert Channels
Rangelands
Southern Gulf
Border Rivers
Maranoa-Balonne
Burdekin
Burnett Mary
Glenelg Hopkins
Northern Rivers
West Gippsland
Northern Gulf
Central West
Border Rivers-Gwydir
South East
Namoi
Murrumbidgee
Goulburn Broken
Hunter-Central Rivers
South West Queensland
Border Rivers Maranoa Balonne
1,182,726 head
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State Total head
QLD 2,893,669
2,114,568
NT
QLD 1,402,449
1,282,621
WA
QLD 1,190,908
QLD 1,182,726
3
Condamine 518,280 head
4
South East Qld 354,742 head
8
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Northern
Agricultural
220,663 head
Northern Rivers 856,046 head
Border Rivers-Gwydir 749,354 head
Western 132,959 head
(incorporating Lower Murray Darling)
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14
10
QLD
QLD
VIC
NSW
VIC
QLD
NSW
NSW
SA
NSW
NSW
VIC
NSW
QLD
1,140,127
921,320
896,104
856,046
843,667
780,927
763,214
749,354
700,163
664,667
653,829
588,290
555,381
551,758
Perth (Swan)
4,461 head
16
13
Avon
100,561 head
17
South West
461,360 head
South Coast
297,062 head
Alinytjara Wilurara 506 head
SA Arid Lands 176,995 head
15
Eyre Peninsula 20,884 head
Northern and Yorke 28,286 head
Kangaroo Island 19,264 head
Adelaide and Mount Lofty Ranges 87,344 head
SA Murray Darling Basin 108,655 head
South East 700,163 head
18
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Namoi 664,667 head
Hunter-Central Rivers 555,381 head
19
Central West 763,214 head
Hawkesbury-Nepean 120,045 head
(incorporating Greater Sydney)
Lachlan 471,944 head
Southern Rivers 237,113 head
Murrumbidgee 653,829 head
ACT 6,367 head
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Murray 387,247 head
North East 395,811 head
East Gippsland 157,362 head
Goulburn Broken 588,290 head
Mallee 13,539 head
Wimmera 78,064 head
Glenelg Hopkins 896,104 head
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North Central 373,634 head
Corangamite 444,785 head
Port Phillip and Westernport 337,281 head
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West Gippsland 843,667 head
North 329,814 head
South 57,301 head
North West 328,662 head
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics and Australian Government Land and Coasts