Cringila, New South Wales

Cringila Wollongong, New South Wales
Aerial photo from east
Cringila
Coordinates	34°28′16″S 150°52′19″E / 34.47111°S 150.87194°E / -34.47111; 150.87194
Population	2,156 (2021 census)[1]
• Density	829/km2 (2,150/sq mi)
Established	1928
Postcode(s)	2502
Elevation	12 m (39 ft)
Area	2.6 km2 (1.0 sq mi)
Location	90 km (56 mi) from Sydney 6 km (4 mi) from Wollongong 28 km (17 mi) from Kiama
LGA(s)	Wollongong City Council
State electorate(s)	Wollongong
Federal division(s)	Whitlam
Suburbs around Cringila: Unanderra Spring Hill Berkeley Cringila Port Kembla Berkeley Lake Heights Warrawong

Cringila (/krɪndʒɪlə/) is a southern suburb of the city of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. The suburb is bounded by Berkeley, Unanderra, Lake Heights and Warrawong.

The suburb is planned on a north-south residential/commercial strip and the east west streets that adjoin it, making a rectangular pattern.

Cringila Community Park is a 78 ha site purchased by Wollongong City Council after residents defeated a proposal by BHP to use the land as a dump for industrial waste. Its main purpose is to regenerate the local area's natural wildlife. Surrounding Cringila's primary school is a protected rain forest.

A fraction of Cringila is the Port Kembla steelworks, which is a major local employer. This led to an influx of ethnic groups, primarily Macedonian, Portuguese, Turks and Lebanese. This in turn transformed the demographics of Cringila significantly and at the 2001 census more people lived in households where Macedonian was spoken (31.8%) than in households where only English was spoken (24.6%), making it the only suburb in Australia where this was true.^[2] However, at the 2021 census only 16.2% of the population lived in households where Macedonian was spoken and 40.8% lived in households where only English was spoken.^[1]