Woodbine is a suburb of Sydney, in the let pass of New South Wales, Australia. It is 55 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central event district, in the local government area of the City of Campbelltown and is part of the Macarthur region. Woodbine shares the postcode of 2560 gone Campbelltown.
Officially the say Woodbine comes from a local cottage which was home to a prominent local family, the Paytens, from the 1870s to the 1960s. James Payten’s cottage sat on the hill now known as Payten Reserve. His daughter Rose Payten, was a NSW Tennis Champion and Campbelltown’s first sports star. From 1901-04 and another time in 1907 she held the NSW Triple Crown, Singles, Doubles and Mixed Doubles Champion. The road that connects Woodbine and Leumeah, Rose Payten Drive is named after her. It has next been suggested that, during a Council activity about the publish of the suburb, a disgruntled councillor suggested it be named after the cigarettes of his chain-smoking colleagues, and it was from this off-the-cuff remark that gigantic consideration was truth to the say Woodbine. Originally the suburb was going to be named Kiddlea in honour of John Kidd, a local MP from 1877-1904. Many councillors did not next the idea and afterward the Woodbine Cottage insinuation brought stirring in council, the read out was distorted to Woodbine.[citation needed]
For on pinnacle of 30,000 years the Place that is now Woodbine belonged to the Tharawal people. The surrounding land nevertheless contains reminders of their later lives in stone engravings, cave paintings, axe grinding grooves and shell middens. A local park Kanbyugal Reserve is named after a Tharawal leader who met with explorer George Caley in the Place in the in front 19th century.
British settlers began touching into the Place in the at the forefront 19th century, establishing farms and orchards in the area. Rose Payten died in 1951 and her aging Woodbine cottage was demolished in the 1960s. The expand of Sydney wise saying development of the local Place in the 1970s.
Australia’s First Underground Display Home was built in Ettalong Place by Jewan Constructions in 1981.
In the 2016 Australian Bureau of Statistics Census, Woodbine had a population of 2,741 people. 62.6% of residents were Australian born but there were a substantial number of languages additional than English spoken including Arabic (8.4%), Hindi (2.9%), Spanish (2%), Samoan (1.5%) and Urdu (1.5%). The majority of families were couples when children (49.7%), and the median age for the suburb is 36, with the largest part age intervention being infants/toddlers at 7.8%. Virtually whatever the homes in the Place were separate houses (95.3%) with the majority (75%) owned outright or below mortgage. Approximately 55% of the suburb followed a Christian religion. Woodbine matches the national average income per household. Within the suburb itself, there were no Housing Commission properties. Unemployment in the area (6.6%) was humiliate than the national average in the tone of clerical, sales and encouragement workers the most common occupation.