106 Lachlan Street, Macquarie ACT 2614, Australia
| Event | Date | Price | Price per m² |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sold | Feb 2000 | $245,000 | $312 |
| Sold | Apr 1990 | $155,000 | $197 |
Price per m² based on land size of 785 m².
The property is a detached house positioned on a 785 m² parcel of land. Its generous lot size provides ample outdoor space for gardening or recreation.
A small shopping centre on Lachlan Street offers a medical centre, chemist, coffee shop and the Kinh Doh Vietnamese restaurant. A short walk further brings you to the Jamison Centre, which hosts a popular Sunday Rotary market and the adjacent Big Splash waterpark with an outdoor water slide.
ACTION bus route 32 runs through Macquarie, providing regular service to both Belconnen Town Centre and the Civic area. This makes commuting by bus convenient for residents.
Residents can enjoy Big Splash, one of Canberra’s few public swimming pools with an outdoor slide, situated about 1‑2 km away. The Sunday market at Jamison Centre also offers a lively community atmosphere.
The area includes a band of Ordovician Greywacke from the Pittman Formation along its eastern side, uplifted by the Deakin Fault. Beneath the Jamison Centre lies a green‑grey dacitic porphyry, and the centre‑west of Macquarie is underlain by green‑grey rhyodacite of the Walker Volcanics.
Macquarie was gazetted on 22 June 1967 to honour Major‑General Lachlan Macquarie, a former Governor of New South Wales. Many of the suburb’s streets are named after his contemporaries.
At the 2016 census, Macquarie had a population of roughly 2,700 people with an average age of 36, slightly above the Canberra average. Approximately 66 % of residents were Australian‑born, and the housing stock is predominantly separate houses (about 71 %).
