Green Square, New South Wales

Green Square
SydneyNew South Wales
Green Square Town Centre
Green Square is located in New South Wales
Green Square
Green Square
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Coordinates33°54′22″S 151°12′11″E / 33.90611°S 151.20306°E / -33.90611; 151.20306
Population34,253 (2021 census)
 • Density12,321/km2 (31,910/sq mi)
Postcode(s)2017 (Under review by the Geographical Names Board of NSW)
Area2.78 km2 (1.1 sq mi)
Time zoneAEST (UTC+10)
 • Summer (DST)AEDT (UTC+11)
Location3.5 km (2 mi) south of Sydney CBD
LGA(s)City of Sydney
State electorate(s)Heffron
Federal division(s)Sydney
Localities around Green Square:
Alexandria Waterloo Zetland
Alexandria Green Square Kensington
Alexandria Beaconsfield Rosebery

Green Square is an inner-southern locality of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The locale is at a five-way intersection where the four suburbs of Alexandria, Zetland, Waterloo and Beaconsfield meet.[1] The precincts are linked by Ebsworth Street, Sydney's first new high street in a century,[2] and Zetland Avenue west, a new tree-lined boulevard inspired by avenues in Manhattan with a long row of aligned traffic lights.[3]

The Green Square Town Centre is undergoing one of the largest urban renewal projects undertaken in Australia. The urban renewal project, spanning 278 hectares,[4] has received criticism for projections that its population will peak at around 60,000 residents and 21,000 workers by 2030.[5]

However, this level of population density would not rank in the top 200 densely populated districts in the world.[6][circular reference] At 21,500 residents per square kilometre in the year 2030, Green Square's population density would be approximately one-third of Yorkville on the Upper East Side of Manhattan at over 60,000 residents per square kilometre, one-half of the Roquette district in Paris at over 40,000 residents per square kilometre, and in line with Tribeca or Midtown Manhattan at approximately 20,000 residents per square kilometre.

  1. ^ "Green Square". Retrieved 30 August 2022.
  2. ^ "Sydney's first new high street in a century revealed at Green Square". 27 August 2015. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
  3. ^ "Zetland Avenue west". Retrieved 31 August 2022.
  4. ^ "Green Square". City of Sydney. Archived from the original on 14 February 2014. Retrieved 16 March 2013.
  5. ^ "Billion dollar Green Square project starts with a bang". Government News. Archived from the original on 4 April 2012.
  6. ^ "List of city districts by population density". Wikipedia. Retrieved 14 August 2022.