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{{Infobox Australian place
| type = town
| name = Aberdeen
| state = nsw
| image = Aberdeen NSW.JPG
| caption = [[New England Highway]], Aberdeen
| lga = Upper Hunter Shire
| postcode = 2336
| established =
| pop = 1872
| pop_year = {{CensusAU|2021}}
| pop_footnotes = <ref name="ABS" />
| coordinates = {{coord|32|10|06|S|150|53|36|E|display=inline,title}}
| elevation=
| maxtemp =
| mintemp =
| rainfall =
| stategov = [[Electoral district of Upper Hunter|Upper Hunter]]
| fedgov = [[Division of New England|New England]]
| dist1 = 242
| dir1 = N
| location1= Sydney
| dist2 = 139
| dir2 = NW
| location2= [[Newcastle, New South Wales|Newcastle]]
| dist3 = 12
| dir3 = N
| location3= [[Muswellbrook, New South Wales|Muswellbrook]]
}}
'''Aberdeen''' is a small town in the upper [[Hunter Region]] of [[New South Wales]], [[Australia]], in [[Upper Hunter Shire]]. It is 12 kilometres north of [[Muswellbrook]] on the [[New England Highway]].

==History==
In 1828 Thomas Potter McQueen was granted 10,000 acres, and named the small township after [[George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen]]. In 1837 Segenhoe Inn was built, which Potter McQueen named after Segenhoe Manor, in [[Bedfordshire]], where he was born in 1791.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://upperhunter.nsw.gov.au/f.ashx/documents/6013-HistoryofAberdeen.pdf |title=Upper Huntershire Council |access-date=5 September 2018 |archive-date=1 April 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180401080345/http://upperhunter.nsw.gov.au/f.ashx/documents/6013-HistoryofAberdeen.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Aberdeen Post Office opened on 1 August 1856.<ref name="Post Office">{{Cite web| title = Post Office List | publisher = Phoenix Auctions | url = http://www.phoenixauctions.com.au/cgi-bin/wsPhoenix.sh/Viewpocdwrapper.p?SortBy=NSW&filter=*Aberdeen* | access-date = 5 February 2021 }}</ref>

==Population==

{{Historical populations
|type= Australia
|1921|730
|1933|958
|1947|
|1954|1154
|1961|1056
|1966|1127
|1971|1118
|1976|1133
|1981|1410
|1986|1741
|1991|1797
|1996|1737
|2001|1708
|2006|1791
|2011|1837
|2016|1894
|2021|1872
|source=[[Australian Bureau of Statistics]] data.<ref name="ABS Census data">{{cite web |title=Statistics by Catalogue Number |publisher=Australian Bureau of Statistics |url=https://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/ViewContent?readform&view=ProductsbyCatalogue&Action=Expand&Num=2.2 |access-date=24 January 2024}}</ref><ref name="ABS Census data recent">{{cite web |title=Search Census data |publisher=Australian Bureau of Statistics |url=https://www.abs.gov.au/census/find-census-data/search-by-area |access-date=24 January 2024}}</ref>
}}

According to the [[2021 Australian census|2021 census]] of Population, there were 1,872 people in Aberdeen.
* Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people made up 10.6% of the population.
* 89.3% of people were born in Australia and 93.2% of people only spoke English at home.
* The most common responses for religion were Anglican 27.0%, Catholic 24.8% and No Religion 33.4%.<ref name="ABS">{{Census 2021 AUS|id=UCL115001|name=Aberdeen (Urban Centre/Locality)|accessdate=24 January 2024|quick=on}}</ref>

==Today==
Aberdeen has its own pre-school, which was founded in 1977. The town contains two schools: the Aberdeen Public School, catering from kindergarten to Grade 6; and St. Joseph's High School, a Catholic co-educational high school catering for Grades 7 through to 12.

Aberdeen has two churches – St Thomas's Catholic Church, and St Mark's Anglican Church. It once had a third church, St Paul's Uniting Church, which has now been turned into an art gallery called the Artemis Gallery.

St Joseph's Aberdeen High School is located next to St Thomas's Catholic Church.<ref>[http://www.abrdn.mn.catholic.edu.au St Joseph's Aberdeen School Website] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080718171355/http://www.abrdn.mn.catholic.edu.au/ |date=July 18, 2008 }}</ref>

The town has a local rugby league team, the [[Aberdeen Tigers]].

For travellers, there are two main areas for accommodation in the town: the Aberdeen Motel, which is on the southern edge of the town; and the Segenhoe Inn, which is situated towards the northern end of town. The Commercial Hotel is also available for budget accommodation.

== Transport ==
Aberdeen is on the [[Main North railway line, New South Wales|Main North railway line]], and is serviced by a daily Xplorer long-distance service in each direction between [[Sydney]] and [[Armidale, New South Wales|Armidale]], as well as two/three local services in each direction between [[Scone, New South Wales|Scone]] and [[Newcastle, New South Wales|Newcastle]].

Osborn’s Buses runs a bus service between Aberdeen, Scone and Muswellbrook. There are approximately 20 services per week in each direction.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://transportnsw.info/routes/details/newcastle-and-hunter-network/414/54414 |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=transportnsw.info}}</ref>

==Abattoirs==
Aberdeen is possibly best known for the former [[abattoir]]s in the town centre, which operated for well over 100 years, before the most recent owners - an American company called [[Conagra]] - decided to close down their New South Wales abattoirs and concentrate on their [[Queensland]] operations. One factor in closing down what was once a very important abattoir for Conagra, was that the financial cost of upgrading the Aberdeen Abattoir was deemed too high, thus the abattoir - which was the largest single employer in Aberdeen - was closed in 1999. Hundreds of people were left without work,<ref>{{cite web | url=https://australianabattoirs.com/2013/06/17/aberdeen/ | title=Aberdeen. #736. NSW | date=17 June 2013 }}</ref> and despite promises from both the New South Wales and Federal governments to encourage new businesses to open up in the area, beyond expansion of coal mining and associated industries, nothing of note eventuated.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.smh.com.au/environment/revealed-major-new-coal-mines-planned-for-the-upper-hunter-20150220-13ki4a.html | title=Revealed: Major new coal mines planned for the Upper Hunter | date=23 February 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-03/dartbrook-coal-mine-to-reopen-upper-hunter/12842478 | title=Controversial NSW coal mine poised to reopen | newspaper=ABC News | date=2 November 2020 }}</ref>

==Notable people==
* [[Katherine Knight]] (born 24 October 1955), murderer who killed her partner, skinned him and cooked his body parts<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WFNaD9ArVqwC&pg=PT129|title=Extreme Evil: Taking Crime to the Next Level|first1=Phil|last1=Clarke|first2=Tom|last2=Briggs|first3=Kate|last3=Briggs|date=August 2011|publisher=Canary Press eBooks|isbn=9781907795916|via=Google Books}}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}
{{more citations needed|date=November 2010}}

==External links==
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{{Suburbs of Upper Hunter Shire}}

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[[Category:Suburbs of Upper Hunter Shire]]
[[Category:Towns in the Hunter Region]]
[[Category:Hunter River (New South Wales)]]

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