38 Swinden Street, Downer ACT 2602, Australia
| Event | Date | Price | Price per m² |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sold | May 2017 | $800,000 | — |
The property at 38 Swinden Street has three bedrooms. It is a three‑bedroom house in the suburb of Downer.
38 Swinden Street is a detached house. The home is part of the inner‑north residential fabric of Downer.
The nearest Canberra Metro station is on Swinden Street, roughly 0.4 km away. The Dickson Interchange, another Metro hub, is about 0.7 km from the property.
Within 0.5–0.7 km you’ll find the Dickson Library, the Dickson Centre precinct, a cafe and veterinary clinic in the refurbished local shopping centre, and the Quality Hotel Dickson. A local oval and sports fields are also nearby.
A bronze kangaroo sculpture was unveiled in May 2019 near the Downer shopping centre, replacing an earlier piece. The area also features historic trees originally planted for the CSIRO research facility in the 1930s.
Downer sits on calcareous shales from the Canberra Formation, which are overlain by Quaternary alluvium. This limestone‑based geology links to Canberra’s original title of “Limestone Plains.”
Downer is in the federal electorate of Canberra, represented by Alicia Payne of the Labor Party. At the territory level, it falls within the ACT Legislative Assembly electorate of Kurrajong.
