Burringbar, New South Wales

Burringbar New South Wales
Burringbar
Coordinates	28°25′S 153°20′E / 28.417°S 153.333°E / -28.417; 153.333Coordinates: 28°25′S 153°20′E / 28.417°S 153.333°E / -28.417; 153.333
Population	858 (2006 census)[1]
Postcode(s)	2483
Location	17 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.

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, and Burringbar is also the locale for much of her writing.^[2]

References[]

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