This is a list of suburbs in the Australian Capital Territory, in Australia.
Suburbs are listed according to the districts in which they are located. Town centres, Group Centres, or suburbs containing group centres, appear in bold. (Some group centres or town centres have names differing from those of the suburbs in which they are located, in which case there may be a separate article listed beside the suburbs.) The date of gazettal of the suburb is appended to its entry.
For a description of Australian Capital Territory's suburbs and urban hierarchy, including districts, town centres and suburbs, see Suburbs of the Australian Capital Territory
- Aranda 1967
- Belconnen – Belconnen Town Centre – Emu Ridge 1983
- Bruce 1968
- Charnwood 1973
- Cook 1968
- Dunlop
- Evatt 1972
- Florey 1975
- Flynn 1971
- Fraser 1974
- Giralang 1974
- Hawker 1972
- Harrison 1968
- Higgins 1968
- Holt – Kippax Centre 1970
- Kaleen 1974
- Latham 1971
- Lawson 2015
- Macgregor 1971
- Macnamara 2016
- Macquarie – Jamison Centre 1967
- McKellar 1974
- Melba 1972
- Page 1968
- Scullin 1968
- Spence 1972
- Strathnairn
- Weetangera 1968
- Acton 1928
- Ainslie 1928
- Barton 1922
- Braddon 1928
- Campbell – Duntroon 1928
- Capital Hill 1913
- City (also referred to as Civic) 1928
- Deakin 1928
- Dickson – Dickson Centre 1928
- Downer 1960
- Forrest 1928
- Fyshwick 1918
- Griffith – Manuka 1927
- Hackett 1960
- Kingston – The Causeway
- Lyneham – North Lyneham 1928
- Narrabundah 1947
- O'Connor 1928
- Parkes 1922
- Red Hill 1928
- Reid 1928
- Russell
- Turner 1928
- Watson 1960
- Yarralumla 1928
- ^ denotes suburbs which have been planned, but not yet been opened or settled
- Beard
- Harman 1939
- Hume
- Oaks Estate 1984
- Symonston
- Canberra Airport
- Pialligo 1982
Planned suburbs as of 18 June 2012[1][2]
- ^ denotes suburbs which have been planned, but not yet been opened or settled
- Banks 1987
- Bonython 1986
- Calwell 1975
- Chisholm 1975
- Conder
- Fadden 1975
- Gilmore 1975
- Gordon 1987
- Gowrie
- Greenway – Tuggeranong Town Centre 1986
- Isabella Plains 1975
- Kambah – Kambah Village Centre 1974
- Macarthur 1982
- Monash 1975
- Oxley 1982
- Richardson 1975
- Theodore 1975
- Wanniassa – Erindale Centre 1974
- Chifley
- Curtin – Curtin Centre 1962
- Farrer
- Garran 1966
- Hughes 1962
- Isaacs 1966
- Lyons
- Mawson – Southlands Centre 1966
- O'Malley 1973
- Pearce
- Phillip – Woden Town Centre – Swinger Hill 1966
- Torrens 1966
Former suburbs
editIn 1927 the provisional suburbs of the Australian Capital Territory were renamed to honour the leaders of Federation, and to retain the earlier names in the district; with the exception of Mugga (the proposed renaming of Red Hill) the new names were gazetted in 1928.[3]
- Ainslie was renamed Braddon
- South Ainslie was renamed Reid
- North Ainslie was renamed Ainslie
- Blandfordia was renamed Forrest
- Causeway became part of Kingston
- Eastlake was renamed Kingston
- Manuka and South Blandfordia were combined and renamed Griffith
- Telopea Park was renamed Barton
- Westridge was renamed Yarralumla
Other
edit- Hall, District of Hall (technically a separate town)
- Harman, District of Jerrabomberra (navy base)
- Pierces Creek (former forestry settlement)
- Tharwa, District of Paddys River (technically a separate town)
- Uriarra (former forestry settlement)
- Williamsdale, small town in the district of Tuggeranong
References
edit- ^ Barr, Andrew. "First three suburbs of Molonglo named" (Press release). Retrieved 25 July 2013.
- ^ Corbell, Simon. "Canberra's heritage reflected in new suburb names" (Press release). Retrieved 25 July 2013.
- ^ "The Suburbs – Proposed New Names". The Canberra Times. 16 December 1927. Retrieved 7 July 2010.