West Wollongong, New South Wales

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West Wollongong
Wollongong, New South Wales

Population:

4,144^[1]

Postcode:

2500

Coordinates:

34°25′S 150°52′E / -34.417, 150.867Coordinates: 34°25′S 150°52′E / -34.417, 150.867

Location:

2 km (1 mi) from Wollongong

LGA:

Wollongong

State District:

Keira

Federal Division:

Cunningham

Suburbs around West Wollongong:
Mount Keira	Keiraville	Mount Ousley
Figtree	West Wollongong	Wollongong
Figtree	Mangerton	Coniston

West Wollongong is the innermost western suburb of the coastal city of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. It is mainly residential, with public and private schools and a small commercial strip with a music store, chicken shop, electric goods store and carpet store along the Princes Highway with several petrol stations, two restaurants, a liquor store, a chemist and a flower shop. It is the location of the Mount Keira Road turnoff from the Princes Highway, incidentally the westernmost end of Crown Street.

The suburb is mostly lower-middle class and has much cheap or government housing. There has also been a recent rise in Sudanese and South African refugees living in the area in government housing. It is mostly on a low raised area, with a smooth rise up to Hospital Hill in the east, though north of the highway the low foothill ridges of Mount Keira form ripples. In recent years upgrading has improved it, including the 2006 installment of lights outside West Wollongong Public School, and the 2007 upgrading of sidewalks in the vicinity.

Most residences are single storey or two-three storey units. One notable exception is the circular aged housing facility, a prominent sight, the highest building west of Wollongong in the plain, Diment Towers. It is, contrary to its name, a single tower with a base rather than multiple units. Diment Towers is just southwest of Wollongong Hospital.

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