Hume, Australian Capital Territory

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Hume
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory

Population:

13 (2001 census)

Postcode:

2620

Property Value:

AUD $292,000 (2005)[1]

LGA:

Tuggeranong

Assembly Electorate:

Molonglo

Federal Division:

Canberra

Suburbs around Hume:

	Hume
Gilmore

Hume is a suburb of Canberra in the district of Tuggeranong. The suburb is named after the explorer Hamilton Hume and streets are named after Australian industrialists and businessmen. Hume is a light-industrial suburb and there is no significant housing development, the population as of the 2001 census was 13 people.

[edit] Geology

Deakin Volcanics from the Silurian Era underlie Hume. Cream and purple rhyodacite are found in the south and including Tralee, New South Wales. A mixture of purple and green tuff, ashstone, shale, and coarse sandstone in the north east Coarse dark purple rhyodacite is in the north end near Queanbeyan turn off.