15 Collicott Circuit, Macquarie ACT 2614, Australia
The address is a detached house situated on a 468 m² block. It offers a typical residential lot size for the Macquarie suburb.
The Jamison Centre, a major shopping mall, is about 0.4 km away, while the Big Splash waterpark with its outdoor slide is roughly 0.3 km from the house. A small shopping centre on Lachlan Street, featuring a medical centre, chemist, coffee shop and a Vietnamese restaurant, is also nearby.
ACTION bus route 32 connects Macquarie to Belconnen Town Centre and Civic, providing convenient access to the wider Canberra region.
Macquarie sits on a band of Ordovician greywacke from the Pittman Formation and is traversed by the Deakin Fault, which changes direction within the suburb. The area also contains green‑grey dacitic porphyry under the Jamison Centre and green‑grey rhyodacite of the Walker Volcanics in the centre and west.
At the 2016 census, Macquarie had a population of about 2,700 people with an average age of 36, slightly above the Canberra average. Around two‑thirds of residents were Australian‑born, and the next most common birthplace was China at 4%.
Nearby community facilities include the Big Splash waterpark (0.3 km), the Jamison Centre market held on Sundays (0.4 km), and the National Health Co‑op branch (0.5 km). The Macquarie Island Magnetic Observatory is also situated just 0.3 km away.
Macquarie was gazetted in 1967 in honour of Major‑General Lachlan Macquarie, a former Governor of New South Wales, and many streets are named after his contemporaries.
