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Cattai is an historic suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located 44 kilometres north-west of the Sydney central business district and 30 kilometres north-west of Parramatta. It is in the local government areas of The Hills Shire and City of Hawkesbury.Gregory's Sydney Street Directory, Gregory's Publishing Company, 2007 Cattai's state electoral district is Hawkesbury, and its federal electoral divisions are Berowra and Macquarie.
Cattai is bounded in the north-west by the Hawkesbury River and is traversed by Cattai Creek. It encompasses the heritage-listed Cattai Estate, located within Cattai National Park at the junction of the Creek and the Hawkesbury River.The Heritage of Australia, Macmillan Company, 1981, p. 2/12 The Georgian house was built between 1804 and 1821 by former Magistrate Thomas Arndell, with further additions being made in the 1860s. Cattai is also home to a historic rural Primary school that was founded in 1886. The suburb was originally home to the Darug Indigenous Australians before being settled in the early nineteenth century. (2026). 9781863350174, Common Ground Publishing. ISBN 9781863350174
The name Cattai was originally thought to have derived from an Aboriginal word with an unknown meaning. However, it was more likely named by the First Fleet Assistant Surgeon and Magistrate Thomas Arndell who built a homestead called 'Caddie'. The homestead is now called Cattai Estate and resides in Cattai National Park. The suburb of Cattai has henceforth been considered a misnomer of 'Caddie'.
Cattai Post Office opened on 26 November 1906 and closed in 1994.
Cattai Public School was established in 1886. Arndell Anglican College was an independent secondary college that was established in Cattai in 1990, until it moved to its current site of Oakville in 1994.
The majority of people spoke only English language at home (89.8%). The second most spoken language was Punjabi language (0.9%) followed by Maltese language and Croatian (both 0.7%).
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