53 Blackman Crescent, Macquarie ACT 2614, Australia
| Event | Date | Price | Price per m² |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sold | Jul 2000 | $173,500 | $147 |
| Sold | Aug 1993 | $152,000 | $128 |
Price per m² based on land size of 1180 m².
The property sits on a 1,180 m² land parcel. It provides ample space for outdoor activities and landscaping.
It is situated in the suburb of Macquarie, part of the Belconnen district in inner‑north Canberra. The suburb is bounded by Belconnen Way to the north, Bindubi Street to the east, Redfern Street to the south and Coulter Drive to the west.
ACTION bus route 32 runs through Macquarie, linking the area with Belconnen Town Centre and Civic. This provides convenient access to the wider city.
The Jamison Centre, a major shopping mall, is about 0.5 km away and includes a market on Sundays. Big Splash, a public swimming pool with an outdoor water slide, is roughly 0.4 km from the house.
Yes. Greywacke from the Ordovician Pittman Formation forms a band on the east side, and the Deakin Fault runs through the suburb. Under the Jamison Centre lies a porphyry of green‑grey dacitic intrusive, while green‑grey rhyodacite of the Walker Volcanics underlies the centre and western parts.
The suburb was named in honour of Major‑General Lachlan Macquarie, a former Governor of New South Wales. Many streets in the area are also named after his contemporaries.
At the 2016 census, Macquarie had about 2,700 residents with an average age of 36, slightly above the Canberra average. Approximately 65.7 % of people were Australian‑born, and the second most common birthplace was China (4 %).
