Burringbar, New South Wales

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

Burringbar
New South Wales
Burringbar main street (2024)
Burringbar is located in New South Wales
Burringbar
Burringbar
Coordinates28°25′S 153°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

Demographics edit

 
Main street of Burringbar, June 2024 (detail)
 
Burringbar Primary School
 
The former Elwood Cafe in Burringbar, 2020 (lost in fire 2022)

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.[2]

References edit

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