Collinswood, South Australia
Suburb of Adelaide, South Australia
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Collinswood is a suburb in Adelaide, Australia, spanning the boundary of the Prospect and the Port Adelaide Enfield local government areas.
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| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | South Australia | ||||||||||||
| City | Adelaide | ||||||||||||
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• Total | 0.51 km2 (0.20 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
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| • Total | 1,496 (SAL 2021)[1] | ||||||||||||
| Postcode | 5081 | ||||||||||||
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The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) studios on the corner of North East Road and Galway Avenue opened in 1974.[2] The ABC plans to move operations from Collinswood to a new arts precinct on the site of the old Adelaide Central bus station in Franklin Street, Adelaide by 2031.[3] Country Arts SA, the State Theatre Company South Australia and State Opera South Australia who are also tenants of the ABC building will also move.[4]
Hampstead Post Office opened around 1927 and was renamed Collinswood in 1964.[5]
History
In 1838 George Fife Angas selected "country section" 474 in the later-proclaimed Hundred of Yatala. He had been given the right to make first choice of a country section, to which he and other early investors in South Australia were entitled by their purchase of land orders prior to settlement (see Lands administrative divisions of South Australia § Land division history). The bounds of section 474 correspond almost exactly with the present-day Collinwood, but the triangle of land was split, in the early days, between the suburb of Rosebery, in the south, and Collinswood, in the north.[6]
Population
In the 2016 Census, there were 1,384 people in Collinswood. 65.8% of people were born in Australia and 68.3% of people spoke only English at home. The most common responses for religion were No Religion 34.0%, Catholic 17.4% and Anglican 10.3%.[7]
