7-744: Cororooke is a rural locality in Victoria , Australia , situated in the Shire of Colac Otway . Cororooke is home to the highly successful Cororooke Tennis Club who are the reigning premiers of the PDTA of the 2023-24 season The town has a post office and general store The town has an arts complex, the Red Rock Regional Theatre and Gallery (RRTAG). Which also has a restaurant the Stage Bistro The Cororooke hall
14-718: A process to formally define their boundaries and to gazette them, which is almost complete. In March 2006, only South Australia and the Northern Territory had not completed this process. The CGNA's Gazetteer of Australia recognises two types of locality: bounded and unbounded. Bounded localities include towns, villages, populated places, local government towns and unpopulated town sites, while unbounded localities include place names, road corners and bends, corners, meteorological stations, ocean place names and surfing spots. Sometimes, both localities and suburbs are referred to collectively as "address localities". In
21-579: Is located in the Main Street of Cororooke Cororooke has ‘The Shop’ which is a OP shop in the town. The ‘Cororooke Open Space’ is home to a playground and barbecue area in the CBD of the town As of the 2021 Australian census , 358 people resided in Cororooke, up from 310 in the 2016 census . The median age of persons in Cororooke was 46 years. There were fewer males than females, with 49.9% of
28-400: Is used in rural areas, while the term suburb is used in urban areas. Australian postcodes closely align with the boundaries of localities and suburbs. This Australian usage of the term "suburb" differs from common American and British usage, where it typically means a smaller, frequently separate residential community outside, but close to, a larger city. The Australian usage is closer to
35-840: The American or British use of "district" or "neighbourhood", and can be used to refer to any portion of a city. Unlike the use in British or American English, this term can include inner-city, outer-metropolitan and industrial areas. Localities existed in the past as informal units, but in 1996 the Intergovernmental Committee on Surveying and Mapping and the Committee for Geographical Names in Australasia (CGNA) decided to name and establish official boundaries for all localities and suburbs. There has subsequently been
42-438: The first instance, decisions about the names and boundaries of suburbs and localities are made by the local council in which they are located based on criteria such as community recognition. Local council decisions are, however, subject to approval by the state's geographical names board. The boundaries of some suburbs and localities overlap two or more local government areas (LGAs). Examples of this are Adamstown Heights , which
49-525: The population male and 50.1% female. The average household size was 2.6 people per household. This article about a location in Barwon South West (region) is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Suburbs and localities (Australia) Suburbs and localities are the names of geographic subdivisions in Australia , used mainly for address purposes. The term locality
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