Melrose Estate | |
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Coordinates: 26°08′42″S 28°03′04″E / 26.145°S 28.051°E | |
Country | South Africa |
Province | Gauteng |
Municipality | City of Johannesburg |
Main Place | Johannesburg |
Area | |
• Total | 0.59 km2 (0.23 sq mi) |
Population (2011)[1] | |
• Total | 730 |
• Density | 1,200/km2 (3,200/sq mi) |
Racial makeup (2011) | |
• Black African | 34.1% |
• Coloured | 2.1% |
• Indian/Asian | 5.9% |
• White | 57.1% |
• Other | 0.8% |
First languages (2011) | |
• English | 68.2% |
• Zulu | 7.7% |
• Afrikaans | 5.6% |
• Northern Sotho | 3.8% |
• Other | 14.7% |
Time zone | UTC+2 (SAST) |
Melrose Estate is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region 3[needs update]. Until the early 2000s, the suburb had many fine traditional houses, which are rapidly giving way to cluster house complexes. While probably inevitable, this is slowly defacing the suburb. With the expected building of the Gautrain station in nearby Rosebank, the suburb is likely to disappear as a tree-covered residential area.