26 Hartley Street, Turner ACT 2612, Australia
Turner School, a public preschool and primary school, is just 0.2 km away from 26 Hartley Street. It is within easy walking distance.
The Ipima Street and Macarthur Avenue light rail stations are each about 0.5 km from the property, providing convenient Metro access. Several major roads, including Northbourne Avenue, are also within 0.5 km.
Haig Park is approximately 0.8 km away, while Gazetted Park and Jandura Park are each about 0.5 km from the house. Rugby Park is also nearby at roughly 0.9 km.
Several hotels are within a kilometre, including Mantra MacArthur Canberra (0.4 km), Deco Hotel Canberra (0.5 km), and Pavilion on Northbourne (0.7 km). The Canberra Rex Hotel and Capital Executive Apartment Hotel are also nearby, each about 0.6‑0.9 km away.
Turner was designed as a garden‑city in the 1940s‑1950s, featuring wide nature strips, generous road widths and a mix of detached houses, townhouses and flats. The area is close to Canberra’s CBD and the Australian National University, making it highly walkable.
Turner has a youthful and professional population, with 48 % aged 20‑34 and 45 % working as professionals. A large proportion of households are single‑person (38 %) and many residents have no religious affiliation.
The suburb sits on calcareous shales of the Canberra Formation, overlain by Quaternary alluvium, which is part of the original “Limestone Plains”. Several inactive fault lines, including the Acton Fault, also pass through the area.
