8 Skeats Street, Hackett ACT 2602, Australia
8 Skeats Street is a detached house offering three bedrooms and one bathroom. It sits on a 699 m² block and includes three dedicated parking spaces.
The suburb of Hackett, where the house is situated, lies roughly 4.5 km north‑east of Canberra’s CBD, providing a short drive to the city centre.
Within about 1–2 km you’ll find Calvert Park, Justice Robert Hope Park, Bill Pye Park and the Dickson District Playing Fields, offering open space for walking, sport and leisure.
The nearest bus stop is the Officer Crescent bus shelter, located approximately 1.6 km away, providing convenient access to Canberra’s bus network.
Skeats Street is named after English‑Australian geologist Ernest Willington Skeats, reflecting Hackett’s tradition of naming streets after notable scientists.
Hackett sits on calcareous shales from the Canberra Formation, overlain by Quaternary alluvium, and the eastern side rests on the lowermost layer of the Ainslie Volcanics, a grey dacite with agglomerate and tuff.
Hackett is a socially and economically advantaged suburb; over half its adult residents hold university degrees, unemployment is low (about 2.6 % in 2019), and median personal incomes are roughly 1.6 times the national average.
Hackett features its own neighbourhood oval and shopping centre, and is adjacent to the suburbs of Watson, Dickson and Ainslie, where additional retail and community services can be found.
