| Black Hill Ballarat, Victoria | |||||||||||||||
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 Corner of Napier and Peel Street. The Post Office is on the left and the Black Hill Hotel on the right. | |||||||||||||||
  Black Hill | |||||||||||||||
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| Coordinates | 37°33′36″S 143°52′21″E / 37.5600°S 143.8726°E | ||||||||||||||
| Population | 2,124 (2021 census)[1] | ||||||||||||||
| • Density | 1,221/km2 (3,162/sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 3350 | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 1.74 km2 (0.7 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Location | 2 km (1 mi) from Ballarat Central | ||||||||||||||
| LGA(s) | City of Ballarat | ||||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Wendouree | ||||||||||||||
| Federal division(s) | Ballarat | ||||||||||||||
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Black Hill is a suburb of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia in the northeast of the city. It is named after the major landmark, Black Hill, on which there was extensive and highly profitable open-cut gold mining from the early 1850s during the Victoria gold rush. The hill was originally given its indigenous name, Bowdun, by surveyor William Urquhart.[2]
This is a suburb that many locals claim to be the ‘Fitzroy of Ballarat’, due to its high house price, large blocks of land and distance to the CBD.
The population at the 2021 census was 2,124.[1]
- ^ a b Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Black Hill (Vic) (State Suburb)". 2021 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 3 November 2022.
- ^ Weston Bate, Lucky City: The first generation at Ballarat: 1851-1901 (1978), p.25-26.
