A mid north coast council has created a new section at a local cemetery to serve the needs of the region's growing Jewish community.

The Kempsey Shire Council has worked closely with the New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies and the Sydney Jewish Religious Court to create the section at the Frederickton cemetery.

The council's Jennifer Colling said there will be a formal consecration at the cemetery next Tuesday.

"Back in the late 1800s there was land allocated to the Jewish community, but over the years that was used by other denominations," she said.

"Now we're able to allocate this lovely piece of land that's in the general section of the Frederickton cemetery that will be the new Jewish section."

"From the stats from the Jewish community we currently have 17 members living in the Kempsey Shire," she said.

"So we are looking longterm and certainly like all other sections of the cemetery.

"If anyone chooses to be buries at our cemeteries we don't go off if they are residents of the shire or not, so it's open for the Jewish community."