Nudgee Beach, Queensland
Template:Use Australian English Template:Use dmy dates Template:Side box Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Nudgee Beach is a suburb and beach in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.[2][3] In the Template:CensusAU, Nudgee Beach had a population of 308 people.[1]
Geography
The suburb is Script error: No such module "convert". north-west of the Brisbane central business district. The suburb is bounded to the north-east by Moreton Bay, to the south-west by Kedron Brook (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".), to the south-west by the Gateway Motorway, and to the north-west by Nundah Creek (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".).[4] Directly to the south is Brisbane Airport.[4]
Nudgee Creek rises in Nudgee to the west and meanders through Nudgee Beach where it enters Moreton Bay at Script error: No such module "Coordinates"..[4]
There is a small residential area (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".) in the east of the suburb near the beach (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".).[4]
There is a Brisbane City Council waste transfer station (known by the council as a resource recovery centre) in the south of the locality (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".). The remainder of the locality is mangrove wetlands with the northern part of the suburb being part of the Boondall Wetlands.[4]
There is a network of bike tracks which connect through to Toombul shopping centre.[4]
History
The name Nudgee comes from the Yuggera word in the Yugarabul dialect, nardha meaning place of ducks, from nar meaning duck and dha meaning place.[2]
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Nudgee Beach Provisional School opened on 1 April 1926. In 1946, it became Nudgee Beach State School in the former Woolooman State School building which was relocated to Nudgee Beach.[5][6] It closed on 25 March 1988.[7] In 1989, the school building reopened as Nudgee Beach Field Study Centre. In 1992, it was renamed Nudgee Beach Environmental Education Centre.[8]
Demographics
At the Template:CensusAU, Nudgee Beach had a population of 261 people. In the Template:CensusAU, Nudgee Beach had a population of 261 people; 48.7% female and 51.3% male. The median age of the Nudgee Beach population was 45 years of age, 8 years above the Australian median. Children aged under 15 years made up 13.8% of the population and people aged 65 years and over made up 17.7% of the population. 77.9% of people living in Nudgee Beach were born in Australia, compared to the national average of 69.8%; the next most common countries of birth were England 4.6%, New Zealand 4.2%, Ireland 2.7%, Germany 1.1%, Papua New Guinea 1.1%. 88.8% of people spoke only English at home; the next most popular languages were 1.9% German, 1.9% Vietnamese, 1.5% Thai, 1.2% Pacific Austronesian Languages. The median weekly household income in Nudgee Beach was $1,224, very similar to the national median of $1,234. Nearly all households in Nudgee Beach (97.0%) were separate houses, there were no semi-detached, row or terrace houses, townhouses etc., and no flats, units or apartments, and 3.0% were classified as "other dwellings". The average household size was 2.5 people.[9]
In the Template:CensusAU, Nudgee Beach had a population of 263 people.[10]
In the Template:CensusAU, Nudgee Beach had a population of 308 people.[1]
Education
Nudgee Beach Environmental Education Centre is an Outdoor and Environmental Education Centre at 1588 Nudgee Road (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".).[11][12]
There are no schools in Nudgee Beach. The nearest primary and secondary school is Earnshaw State College in Banyo.[4]
Amenities
There is a boat ramp and floating walkway at Nudgee Beach Road (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".) providing access to Kedron Brook.[13]
There are four canoe ramps:[14]
- from Fortitude Street into Moreton Bay (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".)
- from O'Quinn Street into Nudgee Creek (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".)
- from Mangrove boardwalk into Nudgee Creek (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".)
- from Boondal Wetlands into Nundah Creek (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".)
References
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