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Cattai

Historic suburb of Sydney, Australia

Field	Value
type	suburb
name	Cattai
city	Sydney
state	nsw
image	Cattai national park arndells cottage.jpg
caption	Arndell's cottage
alternative_location_map	Australia NSW metro Sydney
pushpin_map_caption	Location in metropolitan Sydney
coordinates
local_map	yes
zoom	12
pop	1,077
pop_year
pop_footnotes
pop2	790
pop2_year
pop2_footnotes
postcode	2756
elevation	27
dist1	63
dir1	north-west
location1	Sydney CBD
lga	The Hills Shire
lga2	City of Hawkesbury
stategov	Hawkesbury
fedgov	Macquarie
fedgov2	Berowra
near-n	South Maroota
near-ne	Canoelands
near-e	Glenorie
near-se	Maraylya
near-s	Maraylya
near-sw	Pitt Town
near-w	Wilberforce
near-nw	Ebenezer

Cattai is an historic suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located 44 kilometres north-west of the Sydney central business district and 30 kilometres north-west of Parramatta. It is in the local government areas of The Hills Shire and City of Hawkesbury. Cattai's state electoral district is Hawkesbury, and its federal electoral divisions are Berowra and Macquarie.

Cattai is bounded in the north-west by the Hawkesbury River and is traversed by Cattai Creek. It encompasses the heritage-listed Cattai Estate, located within Cattai National Park at the junction of the Creek and the River. The Georgian house was built between 1804 and 1821 by former Magistrate Thomas Arndell, with further additions being made in the 1860s. Cattai is also home to a historic rural public primary school that was founded in 1886. The suburb was originally home to the Darug Indigenous Australians before being settled in the early nineteenth century.

History

Indigenous Peoples

Main article: Darug

The locality of Cattai was the home of the Darug people who occupied a large expanse of Greater Western Sydney. The Darug people are thought to have occupied the locality of Cattai for more than 20,000 years.

The name Cattai was originally thought to have derived from an Aboriginal word with an unknown meaning. However, it was more likely named by the First Fleet Assistant Surgeon and Magistrate Thomas Arndell who built a homestead called 'Caddie'. The homestead is now called Cattai Estate and resides in Cattai National Park. The suburb of Cattai has henceforth been considered a misnomer of 'Caddie'.

Settlement

Main article: European settlement of Australia

European settlers moved into the area in 1794 to sustain the food shortages of Sydney. Following protests by the Dharug people over the loss of their traditional hunting and fishing lands, soldiers were sent to the area in 1795.

Cattai Post Office opened on 26 November 1906 and closed in 1994.

Cattai Public School was established in 1886. Arndell Anglican College was an independent secondary college that was established in Cattai in 1990, until it moved to its current site of Oakville in 1994.

Heritage listings

Cattai has a number of heritage-listed sites, the most notable being Cattai Estate on Wisemans Ferry Road.

Demographics

Population

At the , there were 1,077 people in Cattai. The median age was 40.

Culture and language

The majority of people from Cattai were born in Australia (85.0%). The most common responses for religion was No Religion (31.0%), followed closely by Catholic (28.7%) and Anglican (21.2%).

The majority of people spoke only English at home (89.8%). The second most spoken language was Punjabi (0.9%) followed by Maltese and Croatian (both 0.7%).

Wealth

Cattai is an affluent suburb in the growing north-west of Sydney. The median weekly household income is A$2,878, which is 164.8% greater than the national average. 47.3% of the households have an income greater than A$3,000 per week.

Landmarks

Parks and sights

Thomas Arndell's Cottage
Cattai National Park
Mitchell Park

Education facilities

Cattai Public School is an historic rural school founded in 1886. Campus facilities:
- 4 classrooms with interactive whiteboards
- Computers, including a specialised computer room with access to the internet and classes that allow for more individualised tuition
- School Library
- 1 Administration Building
- An upgraded playground with rubber-based Soft Fall and mini goal posts for student use
- Sports oval, with complementary large grass areas
Arndell Anglican College was originally established in 1990 at Threlkeld Drive, Cattai. It has since been relocated to Oakville, New South Wales. The school is of Anglican denomination.

Other

Riverside Oaks Golf Resort
Hawkesbury River
Cattai Joinery

References

{{Census 2021 AUS
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Gregory's Sydney Street Directory, Gregory's Publishing Company, 2007
Australian Electoral Commission. "Profile of the Electoral Division of Berowra (NSW)".
Australian Electoral Commission. "Profile of the Electoral Division of Macquarie (NSW)".
{{cite NSW SHR. 5014094. Cattai Estate
The Heritage of Australia, Macmillan Company, 1981, p. 2/12
Fletcher, Jim. (1985). "Cattai Public School: A Centenary History".
NSW Environment & Heritage. "Cattai Estate".
(2000). "The other Sydney : communities, identities and inequalities in Western Sydney". Common Ground Publishing.
"Cattai, NSW - Aussie Towns". Aussie Towns.
"Baulkham Hills City Council Origin of Suburb Names". 300 Purple Toasters.
Premier Postal History. "Post Office List".
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{{cite NSW SHR. 5014094. Cattai Estate
(March 2018). "Market Trends for Cattai NSW".
http://www.riversideoaks.com.au

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