Karuah (/kəruːə/) is a locality[3] in both the Port Stephens and Mid-Coast Councils, the Port Stephens lga side is part the Hunter Region while the Mid-Coast lga is in the Mid North Coast region of New South Wales, Australia.

[8] In 1824 the Australian Agricultural Company purchased a million acres to create the township.

It includes the largest Aboriginal community in the Port Stephens LGA and, at the 2006 Census, had a population of approximately 857.

[9] The rest of the suburb's population live in the rural properties which surround the village.

[10] In 2004, the Karuah Bypass was opened which, as part of the AusLink program, speeds up car and truck travel times past the township but left the town a backwater.