Burringbar, New South Wales
The Northern Rivers Rail Trail passes through it.
Demographics
In the 2011 census, Burringbar recorded a population of 858 people, 48.6% female and 51.4% male.
The median age of the Burringbar population was 41 years, 4 years above the national median of 37.
81.2% of people living in Burringbar were born in Australia. The other top responses for country of birth were England 4.1%, New Zealand 1.5%, Scotland 0.9%, Germany 0.9%, Canada 0.7%.
90.4% of people spoke only English at home; the next most common languages were 1.4% Italian, 0.5% Lithuanian, 0.5% Spanish, 0.3% German, 0.3% Maltese.
The novelist Jessica Cole, otherwise known as Jessie Cole, comes from Burringbar, which is also the setting for many of her novels.
Gallery
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Main street of Burringbar, June 2024 -
Main street of Burringbar, June 2024 (detail) -
Burringbar Broadway, New South Wales, August 2024 (detail of shops) -
Entrance to Masterson Park, October 2024 -
WW1 and post-WW1 memorials, October 2024 -
WW1 memorial (detail), October 2024 -
The former Elwood Cafe in Burringbar, 2020 (lost in fire 2022) -
Burringbar Primary School
References
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (25 October 2007). "Burringbar (L) (Urban Centre/Locality)". 2006 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 11 July 2011.
- ^ "Places". Northern Rivers Rail Trail. Retrieved 25 June 2024.
- ^ Chenery, Susan (1 August 2014). "Jessie Cole: Life in a secret world". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 15 December 2019.
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