Immaculate top floor one bedroom apartment located in a small boutique complex. Spacious kitchen, with electric cooking, dishwasher and stone bench tops. Good size bedroom which opens out onto the balcony, ideal for your morning coffee. Two way bathroom and laundry. Full length windows to the living areas, reverse cycle air conditioning and security access. One underground car space plus storage.
Just one block from the Dickson restaurants, shops and amenities, and only 6km to the Canberra centre and ANU.
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Suburb Snapshot
Dickson (postcode: 2602) is a suburb in the Inner North of Canberra, Australia. It is named after Sir James Dickson (18321901) who was a Queensland advocate of Australian Federation and one of the founders of the Australian Constitution.
History
Between 1926 and 1928, a small runway called Northbourne Aviation Ground was located where the Dickson Library and playing fields are now. This was Canberra’s original airport. Dickson was gazetted on 28 September 1928, but the suburb was not settled until the 1960s
Geography
The suburb is bounded by Northbourne Avenue, Antill Street, Phillip Avenue, Majura Avenue, Limestone Avenue and Wakefield Avenue. Dickson contains no hills or significant slopes. The east arm of Sullivans Creek passes through the middle of Dickson draining storm water from east to west.
Dickson wetlands
The suburb contains the Dickson Centre, a significant commercial centre in Canberras Inner North containing the Woolworths Supermarkets outlet with the greatest turnover in Australia. The centre contains an ambulance station, office buildings, many shops and the Dickson Baptist Church.
Outside the Dickson Centre, the suburb contains the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Canberra radio and television studios. Two colleges are located in the suburb, Dickson College, a public senior secondary school, and Daramalan College, a Catholic high school. The Daramalan Junior school was once located in Dickson, which operated between 1986 and 1997. It was a school for boys in years 5 and 6, and was near St. Brigid’s Church.
Dickson has large playing fields with several ovals, which are used to play many sports including soccer, cricket and rugby, as well as the venue for schools carnivals, and are a popular place on weekends. Organisations calling the playing fields home including the Majura Junior Soccer Club and Corroboree Little Athletics. Near the playing fields is a walking track between rows of pine, oak and gum trees which leads to the Dickson shopping centre. Hawdon Street is where the Canberra Space Dome and Observatory used to be located before being destroyed by fire in 2010. The street is cut in half by the eastern branch of Sullivans Creek, which runs in a concrete drain. On the south side of Sullivans Creek at this point is the Dickson Wetlands, which was completed in December 2011.
Character
The suburb is characterised by leafy streets, detached single dwelling houses, and double story duplex townhouses. The western part of the suburb is beginning to be redeveloped under a policy permitting two and three-storey flats.[6] Redevelopment with eight to ten-storey flats is permitted on properties near Northbourne Avenue and one such block of flats has been built near the ABC studios.
Demographics
At the 2016 census, the population of Dickson was 2,149, including 28 (1.3%) Indigenous persons and 1,392 (66.2%) Australian-born persons. 48.6% of dwellings were separate houses (compared to the Australian average of 72.9%), while 23.1% were semi-detached, row or terrace houses (Australian average: 12.7%) and 27.8% were flats, units or apartments (Australian average: 13.1%). 40.3% of the population were professionals, compared to the Australian average of 22.2%. Notably 20.7% worked in central government administration, compared to the Australian average of 1.2%, although the ACT-wide average is a very similar 18.4%. Dickson is favoured by students and young adults with 18.6% of its population in the 15 to 24-year-old age group (compared to the Australian average of 12.8%). 49.5% of the population had no religion, compared to the ACT average of 36.2% and the Australian average of 29.6%.
66.2% of people living in the suburb of Dickson were born in Australia. The other top responses for country of birth were 4.7% China, 2.9% England, 1.4% Vietnam, 1.2% Bhutan and 1.1% New Zealand.
70.6% of people living in Dickson speak English only. The other top languages spoken are 4.4% Mandarin, 2.1% Vietnamese, 1.3% Italian, 1.2% other Southern Asian languages and 1.1% German.
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