Burnside, Dunedin
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Coordinates: 45°53′53″S 170°27′18″E / 45.898°S 170.455°E | |
Country | New Zealand |
City | Dunedin |
Local authority | Dunedin City Council |
Area | |
• Land | 192 ha (474 acres) |
Population (2018 Census)[2] | |
• Total | 141 |
Balaclava |
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Abbotsford |
Burnside
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Calton Hill |
Green Island | Concord |
Burnside is a mainly
Burnside is separated from the central urban area of Dunedin by the large ridge which surrounds the city's heart. This ridge is part of the crater wall of the long-extinct Dunedin Volcano. The ridge lies immediately to the east of Burnside, with the main pass over it, the
Major industries
Kempthorne Prosser & Co's New Zealand Drug Company
Kempthorne Prosser's Burnside Chemical Works that made fertilisers from Sulphuric acid opened in 1881 and were the first of its kind in the colony.[3] It closed in the early 1960s and was sold to Dominion Fertiliser before being demolished.
New Zealand Refrigerating Company
Burnside is the site of the former Burnside
Plans from 2009 to turn the site into an industrial city are yet (as of 2021) to come to fruition.[6]
Otago Iron Rolling Mills
Previously Smellie Brothers' Iron Rolling Mills. The rolled metal was manufactured from scrap iron. Heated to a white-hot mass before being put under a steam hammer the metal was then rolled and converted to square, angle, flat, rolled and standard iron sold to wholesale merchants throughout the country.[7]
Other industries
A tannery, flour mill, and several fellmongeries.[7]
Another former landmark industry in the area was the Burnside Cement Factory, which also operated until the 1980s. A warehouse for a fire manufacturer was built on the site in 2018.[8]
Among other industries in the area are numerous small manufacturing plants and wholesalers, and several car sales yards, all in lower Kaikorai Valley Road.
To its west and northwest Burnside is predominantly rural hillsides which contain one of the city's main reservoirs, the Southern Reservoir, which is stocked with rainbow trout.[9]
Burnside's location means that there are several major transport routes associated with it. A large motorway interchange lies in Burnside, with
Demographics
Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
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2006 | 108 | — |
2013 | 123 | +1.88% |
2018 | 141 | +2.77% |
Source: [2] |
Burnside covers 1.92 km2 (0.74 sq mi),
Ethnicities were 83.0% European/Pākehā, 17.0% Māori, 6.4% Pacific peoples, 6.4% Asian, and 2.1% other ethnicities (totals add to more than 100% since people could identify with multiple ethnicities).
Although some people objected to giving their religion, 66.0% had no religion, 17.0% were Christian, 4.3% were Hindu, 2.1% were Buddhist and 4.3% had other religions.
Of those at least 15 years old, 18 (15.8%) people had a bachelor or higher degree, and 24 (21.1%) people had no formal qualifications. The median income was $34,100, compared with $31,800 nationally. The employment status of those at least 15 was that 72 (63.2%) people were employed full-time, 15 (13.2%) were part-time, and 3 (2.6%) were unemployed.[2]
References
- ^ a b "ArcGIS Web Application". statsnz.maps.arcgis.com. Retrieved 11 January 2021.
- ^ a b c "Statistical area 1 dataset for 2018 Census". Statistics New Zealand. March 2020. 7028408.
- ^ New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu Taonga. "New Zealand superphosphate". teara.govt.nz. Archived from the original on 3 February 2013. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
- ^ Farming Hocken Bulletin 50, July 2005
- ^ New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu Taonga. "Burnside freezing works". teara.govt.nz. Archived from the original on 27 April 2013. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
- ^ Harvey, Sarah (2 May 2009). "Plans for 'industrial city' at Burnside". Otago Daily Times. Retrieved 22 September 2011.
- ^ a b The Cyclopedia of New Zealand 1905
- ^ "Changing face of Burnside". Otago Daily Times Online News. 23 March 2018. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
- ^ "No need to cast about to find fishing close by". Otago Daily Times Online News. 30 December 2020. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
- ^ 2018 Census place summary: Kaikorai-Bradford