Woodbine is a suburb of Sydney, in the declare of New South Wales, Australia. It is 55Â kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government Place of the City of Campbelltown and is portion of the Macarthur region. Woodbine shares the postcode of 2560 past Campbelltown.
Officially the broadcast Woodbine comes from a local cottage which was house to a prominent local family, the Paytens, from the 1870s to the 1960s. James Payten’s cottage sat upon the hill now known as Payten Reserve. His daughter Rose Payten, was a NSW Tennis Champion and Campbelltown’s first sports star. From 1901-04 and once again in 1907 she held the NSW Triple Crown, Singles, Doubles and Mixed Doubles Champion. The road that connects Woodbine and Leumeah, Rose Payten Drive is named after her. It has then been suggested that, during a Council argument about the publish of the suburb, a disgruntled councillor suggested it be named after the cigarettes of his chain-smoking colleagues, and it was from this off-the-cuff remark that serious consideration was unmovable to the name Woodbine. Originally the suburb was going to be named Kiddlea in honour of John Kidd, a local MP from 1877-1904. Many councillors did not past the idea and in the same way as the Woodbine Cottage mention brought taking place in council, the publicize was changed to Woodbine.[citation needed]
For exceeding 30,000 years the area that is now Woodbine belonged to the Tharawal people. The surrounding land still contains reminders of their bearing in mind lives in rock engravings, cave paintings, axe grinding grooves and shell middens. A local park Kanbyugal Reserve is named after a Tharawal leader who met with explorer George Caley in the area in the into the future 19th century.
British settlers began touching into the area in the further on 19th century, establishing farms and orchards in the area. Rose Payten died in 1951 and her aging Woodbine cottage was demolished in the 1960s. The progress of Sydney motto development of the local Place in the 1970s.
Australia’s First Underground Display Home was built in Ettalong Place by Jewan Constructions in 1981.
In the 2016 Australian Bureau of Statistics Census, Woodbine had a population of 2,741 people. 62.6% of residents were Australian born but there were a substantial number of languages new than English spoken including Arabic (8.4%), Hindi (2.9%), Spanish (2%), Samoan (1.5%) and Urdu (1.5%). The majority of families were couples considering children (49.7%), and the median age for the suburb is 36, with the largest allowance age work being infants/toddlers at 7.8%. Virtually all the homes in the area were separate houses (95.3%) with the majority (75%) owned outright or under mortgage. Approximately 55% of the suburb followed a Christian religion. Woodbine matches the national average income per household. Within the suburb itself, there were no Housing Commission properties. Unemployment in the area (6.6%) was demean than the national average bearing in mind clerical, sales and sustain workers the most common occupation.
