Type: | town |
Burringbar | |
State: | nsw |
Coordinates: | -28.4167°N 173°W |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Pop: | 858 |
Postcode: | 2483 |
Dist1: | 17 |
Dir1: | SE |
Location1: | Murwillumbah |
Lga: | Tweed Shire |
Stategov: | Tweed |
Fedgov: | Richmond |
Burringbar is a village south-east of Murwillumbah in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, Australia.
The Northern Rivers Rail Trail passes through it.[1]
In the, 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]