Tarcutta is a town in south-western New South Wales, Australia. The town is 438 kilometres south-west of Sydney, 3 kilometres east of the Hume Highway, It was proclaimed as a village on 28 October 1890. As of 2016, the town had a population of 446. It serves a local farming community relying for its prosperity mainly on sheep and cattle, and the interstate truckies who use the town as a halfway change-over point in the trade between the state capital cities of Sydney and Melbourne.