East Lindfield is a suburb on the

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, Australia. East Lindfield is located 13 kilometres north-west of the

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. Lindfield is a separate suburb to the west sharing the postcode of 2070.

History

Lindfield means "lime tree field". The Lindfield area was settled in the 1850s. The name derives from the native town of early landowner Mr List, who named his house after Lindfield,

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. When the railway line came through the area in the 1890s, the name of the property was used to identify the station and neighbourhood. Suburban development in East Lindfield occurred mostly in the 1950s and 1960s, so most of the houses in East Lindfield are newer and have a different style to those of Lindfield, which mostly pre-date

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. East Lindfield became a separate suburb from Lindfield when it was gazetted on 5 August 1994. Meadow Lea Meadow Lea, is the grand five-bedroom East Lindfield art deco estate identified by its distinctive Meadow Lea paint colour. It was built in the early 1940's for the prominent margarine industrialist James Armstrong. The home boasts a grand foyer, dining room and a sprung floor ballroom, with a thermostatically controlled two-zone cellar that can hold 2,500 bottles.

Transport

Lindfield railway station Lindfield railway station is a suburban railway station located on the North Shore line, serving the Ku-ring-gai suburb of Lindfield. It is served by Sydney Trains T1 North Shore line and T9 Northern line services. History Lindfield stati ...

is the nearest station on the

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network.

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run bus routes 206, 207, 208 and 209 to East Lindfield. At the , 2.6% of employed people used public transport as at least one of their methods of travel to work and 26.7% travelled by car.

Education

The suburb has a primary school, Lindfield East Public School established in 1929. The suburb also has a community preschool, Lindfield East Community Preschool, established in 1976.

Population

According to the , there were 3,710 residents in East Lindfield, with 91.3% occupied private dwellings, mostly (87.9%) living in a separate house. The median age was 43 and average number of children was 2 (1.1 for all households). * Many were families: there was a high rate of married people in East Lindfield, with 61.9% of residents aged 15 years and over being married (the national average was 46.5%), and children under 15 constituted 20.9% of the population (the national average is 18.2%). * The most common ancestries in East Lindfield were English 30.5%, Australian 23.6%, Chinese 30.4%, Irish 9.2% and Scottish 8.9%. 58.5% of people in East Lindfield were born in Australia. The most common countries of birth outside Australia were China (excluding SAR and Taiwan) 11.2%, England 5.5% and Hong Kong 3.7%. 64.5% of people only spoke English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Mandarin 14% and Cantonese 9.4%, Korean, Japanese and German were also represented. * The most common responses for religion were No Religion 41.8%, Anglican 17% and Catholic 16.3%, Buddhism was 3.8% and 3.5% were Not stated. * East Lindfield residents had higher than the national average incomes, with a median weekly household income of $3,457 compared to the national average of $1,746. Residents of East Lindfield were above the national average of 14.1% in voluntary work with 23.2% participating in voluntary work through an organisation or group in the prior 12 months. * Health wise, East Lindfield residents had 68.5% with no long term health conditions (vs 60.2% in the national average).

Notable residents

Iven Mackay Lieutenant General Sir Iven Giffard Mackay, (7 April 1882 – 30 September 1966) was a senior Australian Army officer who served in both world wars. Mackay graduated from the University of Sydney in 1904 and taught physics there fr ...

, army officer *

Steven Solomon Steven Solomon (born 16 May 1993) is an Australian Olympic sprinter. He is a six-time defending Australian 400 metres champion. In 2011, he broke the 30-year-old national junior record in the 400m. At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London at ...

, Olympic sprinter

References

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