Lorentzville

Lorentzville
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Location within Greater Johannesburg  Lorentzville
Coordinates: 26°11′24″S 28°04′08″E / 26.190°S 28.069°E / -26.190; 28.069Coordinates: 26°11′24″S 28°04′08″E / 26.190°S 28.069°E / -26.190; 28.069
Country	South Africa
Province	Gauteng
Municipality	City of Johannesburg
Main Place	Johannesburg
Established	1892
Area
• Total	0.40 km2 (0.15 sq mi)
Population (2011)
• Total	3,032
• Density	7,600/km2 (20,000/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)
• Black African	90.0%
• Coloured	4.8%
• Indian/Asian	2.8%
• White	2.3%
• Other	0.1%
First languages (2011)
• Zulu	27.5%
• English	19.2%
• Southern Ndebele	10.2%
• Xhosa	7.4%
• Other	35.6%
Postal code (street)	2094

Lorentzville is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is a small suburb found on the eastern edge of the Johannesburg central business district (CBD), tucked between the suburbs of Bertrams and Judith's Paarl, with Troyeville to the south. It is located in Region F.

The suburb was founded on one of the original farms on the Witwatersrand, after a strip of land was sold from the farm Doornfontein. The suburbs name has its origins in the name of the Lorentz family, who had lived both in Pretoria and on the Witwatersrand in the Bezuidenhout Valley. It was laid out from 1892.