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ADVANTAGE
PHARMACY
HAWTHORN
52 Church Street, Hawthorn
First settled in 1830, Hawthorn in Melbourne’s Inner East is one of the surviving
regions of post-Gold Rush expansion and is today one of the city’s most
affluent suburbs.
There’s no shortage of old money in Hawthorn, with property values among
some of the highest in Australia. Streets such as Hawthorn Grove in the
suburb's northern edge and Yarra Park's Coppin Grove in the west are home to
some of Melbourne’s most sought-after Victorian heritage homes, with hefty
price tags to match.
LOCATION
DETAILS
Hawthorn is an inner suburb of Melbourne,
Australia, 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) east of
Melbourne's central business district situated
in the City of Boroondara. At the 2016 Census,
Hawthorn recorded a population of 23,511.
Glenferrie Road, Hawthorn, is designated as
one of 82 Major Activity Centres in
the Melbourne 2030 Metropolitan Strategy
The area was first settled in the late 1830s. The
Boroondara Roads Board, the first municipal
authority, was set up in the 1850s and covered
a remarkably similar area to the present City of
Boroondara. Boroondara is an aboriginal word
reputed to mean place of shade. However, the
Hawthorn Roads Board and the Kew Roads
Board split from the rest of Boroondara in
1860. The HRB evolved into the Town of
Hawthorn and the City of Hawthorn. The state
government amalgamated the Cities
of Camberwell, Hawthorn and Kew in 1994 to
form the City of Boroondara..
In the 2016 Census, there were 23,511 people in
Hawthorn. 60.5% of people were born in
Australia. The next most common countries of
birth were India 4.6%, China 4.0%, England
3.0%, Malaysia 1.9% and New Zealand 1.8%.
68.5% of people spoke only English at home.
Other languages spoken at home included
Mandarin 5.1%, Vietnamese 1.7%, Hindi 1.4%,
Cantonese 1.4% and Arabic 1.3%. The most
common responses for religion were No
Religion 38.9% and Catholic 18.8%.
Glenferrie Road is a major shopping strip, with
two supermarkets, all major banks and many
chain and specialty stores. There are also
shopping centres at the corner of Burwood
Road and Power Street, in Church Street, in
Auburn Road (the western side of which is
within the Hawthorn postcode, while the
eastern side is in Hawthorn East), the corner of
Glenferrie Road and Riversdale Road and the
corner of Auburn Road and Riversdale
Road.Hawthorn is particularly noted for the
number, range and quality of its restaurants,
many of which reflect the strong ethnic
diversity of the region.