Fadden is a suburb in the Canberra, Australia district of Tuggeranong. The suburb is named after Sir Arthur Fadden, Prime Minister of Australia briefly in 1941.
It was gazetted on 5 August 1975. Its streets are named after Queensland politicians. It is surrounded by Macarthur, Gowrie and Wanniassa. It is bounded by Erindale Drive, the Wanniassa Hills Nature Reserve, Fadden Pine Plantation and Sternberg Crescent. (source)
Median property value for Fadden 2904 (source)
2001 | $283k |
2011 | $613k |
| 2016 | $660k |
Statistics about Fadden (source)
Area of Fadden | 3.1 sq Kms |
People | 2,949 |
Male | 1,463 |
Female | 1,486 |
Median age | 44 |
Families | 867 |
Average children per family | 1.8 |
All private dwellings | 1,100 |
Average people per household | 2.8 |
Median weekly household income | 2,757 |
Median monthly mortgage repayments | 2,299 |
Median weekly rent | 500 |
Average motor vehicles per dwelling | 2.1 |
The most common ancestries in Fadden were
English | 27.1% |
Australian | 26.0% |
Irish | 10.7% |
Scottish | 7.9% |
German | 3.1% |
