Abstract: Objective To study the dwellers' health care consciousness and community nursing demand in suburb of Jiujiang city.Methods Dwellers from two different villages were interviewed at their home with questionnaires during March to May of 2008.Results The dwellers were deficient in health care consciousness.There were five most urgent needs of community nursing programs:simple hand ling of the comm on diseases(87.2%),first aid in community(86.6%); community health education(86.2%),chronic illness nursing for old peop le(83.1%)and basic nursing at home (80.0%).Conclusion The dwellersπhealth care consciousness ought to be improved.Dwellersπdem and of community nursing is enormous.Suburb commuity nursing ought to be streng thened according to district's characteristic.