Lightning Ridge is a suburb of Regional NSW, New
South Wales and is about 586 kms north-
northwest of NSW's capital city of Sydney. In the
2011 Australian census the population of Lightning
Ridge was 2,492 when there were 1,111 Females and
1,381 Males living there. The median age for
people living in Lightning Ridge was 44.
Lightning Ridge is the outback mining town that's
famous for its rare black opals. Lightning Ridge, a
charismatic opal town on the edge of the NSW
outback, is the world's main source of the most
desirable of opals