Brightwaters, New South Wales
Suburb of City of Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia
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Brightwaters is a suburb of the City of Lake Macquarie in New South Wales, Australia on a peninsula east of the town of Morisset on the western shore of Lake Macquarie.
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| Coordinates: 33°05′53″S 151°32′06″E | |||||||||||||
| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | New South Wales | ||||||||||||
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| Established | 1859 | ||||||||||||
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• Total | 1.1 km2 (0.42 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
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| • Total | 875 (2021 census)[1] | ||||||||||||
| • Density | 800/km2 (2,060/sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Postcode | 2264 | ||||||||||||
| Parish | Morisset | ||||||||||||
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History
Early industries were tinned fish and sugar cane. A sugar cane mill was built, but it was destroyed by a bushfire in 1875. A post office was opened in 1963 and closed in 1979.[2]
Population
In the 2016 Census, there were 903 people in Brightwaters. 84.1% of people were born in Australia and 93.0% of people spoke only English at home. The most common responses for religion in Brightwaters were No Religion 24.9%, Catholic 24.1% and Anglican 19.8%.[1]
