Minnie Water is a suburb of North Coast, New
South Wales and is about 496 kms north-northeast
of NSW's capital city of Sydney. In the 2011
Australian census the population of Minnie Water
was 189 when there were 91 Females and 98 Males
living there. The median age for people living in
Minnie Water was 53.
Minnie Water is one of the older fishing
settlements on the coast owing to the good
anchorage in lee of the prominent southern reef
and the presence of permanent water which
drains across the beach.