Nerang is a suburb on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia, that lies upon the Nerang River. At the 2011 Census, Nerang had a population of 16,256. Nerang, like Mudgeeraba, is the very remnant of those townships that characterise the rural hinterland of the Gold Coast. Together with Advancetown and Tallebudgera its settlement was brought together with the construction of the Gold Coast railway in the later years of the 19th century. It was not until the 20th century that the coastal lands became dominant. Subdivision was conventional and buildings were traditional rural or rural commercial.