Penrose, New South Wales (Wollongong)
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City of Wollongong New South Wales |
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| Coordinates | 34°25′S 150°53′E / 34.417°S 150.883°ECoordinates: 34°25′S 150°53′E / 34.417°S 150.883°E | ||||||||||||||
| Population | 208,875 (2015) (17th) | ||||||||||||||
| • Density | 305.37/km2 (790.9/sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Established | 1942 (as the City of Wollongong) | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 684 km2 (264.1 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Lord Mayor | Gordon Bradbery | ||||||||||||||
| Council seat | Wollongong | ||||||||||||||
| Region | Illawarra | ||||||||||||||
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| Website | City of Wollongong | ||||||||||||||
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The City of Wollongong is a local government area in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia. The area is situated adjacent to the Tasman Sea, the Southern Freeway and the South Coast railway line.
Located 80 kilometres (50 mi) south of Sydney central business district, the City of Wollongong covers 714 square kilometres (276 sq mi) and occupies a narrow coastal strip bordered by the Royal National Park to the north, Lake Illawarra to the south, the Tasman Sea to the east and the Illawarra escarpment to the west.
The Lord Mayor of the City of Wollongong Council is Cr. Gordon Bradbery, an independent politician.
The area covers the northern and central suburbs of Wollongong, bounded by Helensburgh in the north, the Illawarra escarpment to the west, and by Macquarie Rivulet (Yallah, Haywards Bay) and the Lake Illawarra entrance (Windang) to the south.
At the 2011 census, there were 192,418 people in the City of Wollongong local government area, of these 49.5 per cent were male and 50.5 per cent were female. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people made up 2.2 per cent of the population, which was marginally lower than the national and state averages of 2.5 per cent. The median age of people in the City of Wollongong was 38 years, slightly above the national median. Children aged 0 – 14 years made up 18.5 per cent of the population and people aged 65 years and over made up 16.4 per cent of the population. Of people in the area aged 15 years and over, 48.0 per cent were married and 11.5 per cent were either divorced or separated.
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