Cootamundra vs Gundagai - Junee - Harden

Cootamundra and Gundagai - Junee - Harden are two nearby New South Wales areas with very different layouts. Cootamundra is more walkable, with 61.2% of homes in a 15-minute-city walkshed compared to 37.6% in Gundagai - Junee - Harden. This is seen in the higher number of homes within a short walk of health services (57.3% versus 33.5%), groceries (50.6% versus 35.3%) and parks (76.9% versus 58.7%). In contrast, Gundagai - Junee - Harden has a far larger number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, with 972 compared to 575 in Cootamundra.

Everyday life for First Nations people in both places shares similar patterns, with the unemployment rate sitting at 11.8% in Cootamundra and 10.9% in Gundagai - Junee - Harden. Both areas also have similar rates of people speaking a First Nations language, at 2.4% and 2.7%. While First Nations year 12 completion is far below the national figure in both locations, it is well higher in Cootamundra at 23.1% compared to 16.9% in Gundagai - Junee - Harden.