A State of the Environment (SoE) Report is an important management tool which aims to provide the community and Local Council with information on the condition of the environment in the local area to assist in decision-making. Since 2007, the Councils of the Greater Central West Region of NSW (see map) have joined to produce Regional SoE Reports as part of Council reporting requirements. NSW legislation means that Councils are not required to produce SoE reports each year, but in the year of the Council election. However, the participating Councils have decided to continue reporting on an annual basis so that they can provide a detailed SoE report that covers trends in the intervening years. The 2020 Council elections were postponed until 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Being the year of the Council election, this SoE report responds to the requirement in the Local Government Act 1993 that Councils measure and report on the progress of the environmental objectives in their Community Strategic Plan. This report provides a regional summary of trends (2016-2021) in selected environmental indicators across the 15 Local Councils in the Greater Central West Region. It was prepared in conjunction with reports on each Council’s environmental strategies, appropriate indicators to measure them and trends in these indicators since the last Council election (2016).