Rockville, Queensland
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Rockville is a suburb of Toowoomba, Queensland
, Australia
, located 4 kilometres (2 mi) north-west of the city centre.
Rockville was named after Rockville Estate, consisting of 114 allotments in the area ranging from 2000 square metres (21,527.8 sq ft) to 20000 square metres (215,278.2 sq ft), which itself was named after Rockville House. The suburb was officially named in 1981.
The eastern edge of the suburb is home to an industrial area. Rockville State School (1922), Leslie Research Centre and St Andrew's Private Hospital are other features within its boundaries.
score of 908, placing it below all other suburbs in the district except Harlaxton
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Queensland
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, Australia
Australia
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, located 4 kilometres (2 mi) north-west of the city centre.
Rockville was named after Rockville Estate, consisting of 114 allotments in the area ranging from 2000 square metres (21,527.8 sq ft) to 20000 square metres (215,278.2 sq ft), which itself was named after Rockville House. The suburb was officially named in 1981.
The eastern edge of the suburb is home to an industrial area. Rockville State School (1922), Leslie Research Centre and St Andrew's Private Hospital are other features within its boundaries.
Demographics
Rockville is among the least socio-economically advantaged suburbs of Toowoomba; at the 2006 census, residents had a median individual income of $388, compared with $448 for the Toowoomba statistical district, and a median family income of $921 compared to $1,116. The suburb had a SEIFASEIFA
Socio-Economics Indexes for Areas is a product of the Australia's national statistical agency, the Australian Bureau of Statistics, which measures and ranks areas according to socio-economic and positional disadvantage based on information derived from the five-yearly Census of Population and...
score of 908, placing it below all other suburbs in the district except Harlaxton
Harlaxton, Queensland
Harlaxton is a suburb of Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, located north of the city centre.The name originates from Harlaxton House, probably named for Harlaxton in Lincolnshire, England, and built in 1869 in what is now Munro Street as the residence of Francis Thomas Gregory...
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