Piccadilly, Western Australia

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Piccadilly
Kalgoorlie-Boulder,  Western Australia
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Piccadilly
Coordinates 30°44′33″S121°27′50″E / 30.74255°S 121.46398°E / -30.74255; 121.46398 Coordinates: 30°44′33″S121°27′50″E / 30.74255°S 121.46398°E / -30.74255; 121.46398
Population 2,263 (2016 census) [1]
Postcode(s) 6430
LGA(s) City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder
State electorate(s) Kalgoorlie
Federal Division(s) O'Connor
Suburbs around Piccadilly:
Lamington Lamington / Mullingar Mullingar
Lamington Piccadilly Mullingar / Kalgoorlie
West Lamington West Lamington / Kalgoorlie Kalgoorlie

Piccadilly is a residential suburb of Kalgoorlie-Boulder, a city in the Eastern Goldfields region of Western Australia. At the 2016 census, it had a population of 2,263 people, [1] down from 2,597 in 2011. [2]

The Eastern Goldfields is part of the Western Australian Goldfields in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia. The region encompasses the towns of Kalgoorlie, Boulder, Coolgardie, Kambalda, Southern Cross and other smaller settlements within this area.

Western Australia State in Australia

Western Australia is a state occupying the entire western third of Australia. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, and the Southern Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east, and South Australia to the south-east. Western Australia is Australia's largest state, with a total land area of 2,529,875 square kilometres, and the second-largest country subdivision in the world, surpassed only by Russia's Sakha Republic. The state has about 2.6 million inhabitants – around 11 percent of the national total – of whom the vast majority live in the south-west corner, 79 per cent of the population living in the Perth area, leaving the remainder of the state sparsely populated.

Piccadilly contains the Kalgoorlie Health Campus (formerly Kalgoorlie Hospital), which is the main hospital for Kalgoorlie-Boulder and the surrounding region. It also includes the city's main sporting venue, the Sir Richard Moore Sporting Complex. Piccadilly is roughly rectangular in shape, and most of its streets are on a grid pattern. The locality is bounded by Hare Street to the north-west, Hawkins Street to the south-west, and Eastern Goldfields Railway to the south-east and north-east. [3]

Eastern Goldfields Railway

The Eastern Goldfields Railway was built in the 1890s by the Western Australian Government Railways to connect Perth with the Eastern Goldfields at Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie.

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References

  1. 1 2 Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Piccadilly (State Suburb)". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 1 February 2018. Blue pencil.svg
  2. Australian Bureau of Statistics (31 October 2012). "Piccadilly (State Suburb)". 2011 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 10 February 2017. Blue pencil.svg
  3. Piccadilly WA 6430, Google Maps. Retrieved 14 February 2017.