Burringbar, New South Wales

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Burringbar
New South Wales
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Burringbar Broadway (main street) (2024)
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Burringbar
Coordinates 28°25′S153°20′E / 28.417°S 153.333°E / -28.417; 153.333
Population858 (2006 census) [1]
Postcode(s) 2483
Location17 km (11 mi) SE of Murwillumbah
LGA(s) Tweed Shire
State electorate(s) Tweed
Federal division(s) Richmond

Burringbar is a village south-east of Murwillumbah in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, Australia.

Contents

The Northern Rivers Rail Trail passes through it. [2]

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. [3]

References

  1. Australian Bureau of Statistics (25 October 2007). "Burringbar (L) (Urban Centre/Locality)". 2006 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 11 July 2011.
  2. "Places". Northern Rivers Rail Trail. Retrieved 25 June 2024.
  3. Chenery, Susan (1 August 2014). "Jessie Cole: Life in a secret world". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 15 December 2019.