| Suttontown South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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  Suttontown | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 37°48′14″S140°46′26″E / 37.803932°S 140.7739410°E [1] | ||||||||||||||
| Population | 583 (2016 census) [2] | ||||||||||||||
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| Region | Limestone Coast [3] | ||||||||||||||
| County | Grey [1] | ||||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Mount Gambier [4] | ||||||||||||||
| Federal Division(s) | Barker [5] | ||||||||||||||
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| Footnotes | Adjoining localities [1] | ||||||||||||||
Suttontown (originally Sutton Town) is a hamlet located immediately north of Mount Gambier in the south-east of South Australia.
Mount Gambier is the second most populated city in South Australia with an estimated urban population of 28,684. The city is located on the slopes of Mount Gambier (volcano) in the south east of the state, about 450 kilometres (280 mi) south-east of the capital Adelaide and just 17 kilometres (11 mi) from the Victorian border, it is the most important settlement in the Limestone Coast region and the seat of government for both the City of Mount Gambier and the District Council of Grant.
South Australia is a state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the most arid parts of the country. With a total land area of 983,482 square kilometres (379,725 sq mi), it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories by area, and fifth largest by population. It has a total of 1.7 million people, and its population is the second most highly centralised in Australia, after Western Australia, with more than 77 percent of South Australians living in the capital, Adelaide, or its environs. Other population centres in the state are relatively small; Mount Gambier, the second largest centre, has a population of less than 30,000.
Boundaries for the locality were created in February 1999 for the “long established name.” [6] [7] It was originally a private subdivision of sections 259 and 265 of the Hundred of Blanche, [6] [8] which were adjacent to the Wandilo and Wireless W roads level crossing of the Kalangadoo railway line. [9]
Kalangadoo is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located about 348 kilometres (216 mi) south-east of the state capital of Adelaide and about 31 kilometres (19 mi) north of the regional centre of Mount Gambier.
The dwelling known as ‘Pine Hall’ is listed as a state heritage place on the South Australian Heritage Register. [10]
The South Australian Heritage Register is a statutory register of historic places in South Australia. It extends legal protection regarding demolition and development under the Heritage Places Act 1993. It is administered by the South Australian Heritage Council. As a result of the progressive abolition of the Register of the National Estate during the 2000s and the devolution of responsibility for state-significant heritage to state governments, it is now the primary statutory protection for state-level heritage in South Australia.
The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Suttontown had a population of 583 people. [2]
The 2016 Australian census was the seventeenth national population census held in Australia. The census was officially conducted with effect on Tuesday, 9 August 2016. The total population of the Commonwealth of Australia was counted as 23,401,892 – an increase of 8.8 per cent or 1,894,175 people since the 2011 census. Norfolk Island joined the census for the first time in 2016, adding 1,748 to the population.
Suttontown is located within the federal division of Barker, the state Electoral district of Mount Gambier and the local government areas of the District Council of Grant and the City of Mount Gambier. [5] [4] [1]
The Division of Barker is an Australian Electoral Division in the south-east of South Australia. The division was established on 2 October 1903, when South Australia's original single multi-member division was split into seven single-member divisions. It is named for Collet Barker, an early explorer of the region at the mouth of the Murray River. The 63,886 km² seat currently stretches from Morgan in the north to Port MacDonnell in the south, taking in the Murray Mallee, the Riverland, the Murraylands and most of the Barossa Valley, and includes the towns of Barmera, Berri, Bordertown, Coonawarra, Keith, Kingston SE, Loxton, Lucindale, Mannum, Millicent, Mount Gambier, Murray Bridge, Naracoorte, Penola, Renmark, Robe, Tailem Bend, Waikerie, and parts of Nuriootpa and Tanunda.
Mount Gambier is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. It covers the far south-east corner of the state containing the City of Mount Gambier and District Council of Grant local government areas. It is centred on the city and extinct volcano of Mount Gambier.
The District Council of Grant is a local government area located in the Limestone Coast region of South Australia, and is the southernmost council in the state.
