| Type: | suburb |
| Isaacs | |
| State: | act |
| City: | Canberra |
| Lga: | Woden Valley |
| Postcode: | 2607 |
| Est: | 1986 |
| Elevation: | 659 |
| Area: | 3.1 |
| Pop: | 2,379 |
| Coordinates: | -35.3675°N 149.1114°W |
| Stategov: | Murrumbidgee |
| Fedgov: | Bean |
| Dist1: | 14 |
| Dir1: | S |
| Location1: | Canberra CBD |
| Dist2: | 16 |
| Dir2: | W |
| Location2: | Queanbeyan |
| Dist3: | 103 |
| Dir3: | SW |
| Location3: | Goulburn |
| Dist4: | 300 |
| Dir4: | SW |
| Location4: | Sydney |
| Near-Nw: | Phillip |
| Near-N: | O'Malley |
Isaacs is a suburb in the district of Woden in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. The postcode is 2607.
The suburb was gazetted as a Division Name on 12 May 1966 but residential housing was not built until the late 1980s. Isaacs is next to the suburbs of O'Malley, Mawson and Farrer. It is bounded by Yamba Drive and Ngunawal Drive. Located in the suburb is the Canberra Nature Park of Isaacs Ridge and the Long Gully pine plantation.
The suburb is named after Sir Isaac Isaacs (1855–1948), politician, Chief Justice and the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia (1931–1936).[1]
In the, the population of Isaacs was 2,379, including 40 (1.7%) Indigenous persons and 1,466 (61.6%) Australian-born persons.
The suburb's theme is 'educationists': the streets[1] are therefore named after people associated with Australian education. Some of the main streets in Isaacs, and their honorees, are:
See also: Geology of the Australian Capital Territory.
Isaacs is built on Silurian age Deakin Volcanics. These are green-grey and purple coloured rhyodacite. The lower lying parts of the suburb are covered with Quaternary alluvium on top. Isaacs ridge has the same outcrops as the rest of the suburb.[3]