Blayney is a farming town and administrative centre with a population of 2,997 in 2021, in the Central West region of New South Wales, Australia.

There is a 24-hour public toilet in Adelaide Street (the Mid-Western Highway) just before leaving the town heading west.

The arrival of the railway in 1874 boosted development and Blayney replaced Carcoar as the major service centre to local farmlands.

[11] In the late 1970s or early '80s a meat canning factory was built on farmland land East of Blayney.

In 1994, Blayney became home to Australia's largest inland container terminal, which is situated beside the railway station.

It consists of 15 wind turbine generators on elevated ridges between Carcoar Dam and Mount Macquarie.

Summers are warm and dry with severe thunderstorms, while winters are cool and partly cloudy, with a few occurrences of snow each year.

The town's railway station is served by the daily NSW TrainLink XPT service between Sydney and Dubbo and the weekly Outback Xplorer to Broken Hill, as well as several NSW TrainLink Coach and private company bus services connecting with Bathurst and Orange.