Bruce
Suburb
Apartments on Thynne Street
Bruce Location inCanberra
Coordinates:35°14′31″S149°04′37″E / 35.242°S 149.077°E /-35.242; 149.077
Country	Australia
State	Australian Capital Territory
City	Canberra
District	Belconnen
Location	8 km (5.0 mi) WNW ofCanberra CBD
Established	1968
Government
• Territory electorate	Ginninderra
• Federal division	Canberra
Area
• Total	5.8 km2 (2.2 sq mi)
Elevation	622 m (2,041 ft)
Population
• Total	7,520 (SAL2021)[2]
Postcode	2617
Suburbs around Bruce Lawson Kaleen Lyneham Belconnen Bruce O'Connor Macquarie Aranda Black Mountain

Bruce is asuburb of theBelconnen district ofCanberra, that is located within theAustralian Capital Territory,Australia. The suburb was gazetted on 6 June 1968 and named forThe Viscount Bruce of Melbourne (1883–1967), the eighthPrime Minister of Australia and the first Chancellor of theAustralian National University.^[3]

At the2021 census, Bruce had a population of 7,520 people,^[4] an increase from 6,390 in 2011^[5] and 3,012 in 2001.^[6] 58.1% of people were born in Australia. The next most common countries of birth wereChina (6.2%),India (4.9%),Nepal (3.5%),England (2.1%) andVietnam (1.6%). 62.7% of people spoke onlyEnglish at home. Other languages spoken at home includedMandarin (6.7%),Nepali (3.5%),Cantonese (2.0%) andVietnamese (1.8%). The most common responses for religion were No Religion (44.1%) andCatholic (15.3%). 20.7% of dwellings were separate houses, 45.8% were semi-detached, row or terrace houses or townhouses and 33.4% of were units or apartments.^[4]

• Canberra Stadium is the home of theCanberra Raidersrugby league andBrumbiesrugby union sides, and occasionally hosts national and international sporting events
• Canberra International Sports and Aquatic Centre
• TheUniversity of Canberra (UC) has an enrolment of over 10,000 students and is one of four major universities in Canberra
• TheAustralian Institute of Sport (AIS)
• Calvary Public Hospital
• Bruce Campus of theCanberra Institute of Technology
• Radford College

The Fern Hill section of the suburb was originally planned as a hub for information and communications technology businesses, with some low-rise office buildings being developed off Thynne Street, along with a small commercial centre including a cafe. However, the area has seen considerable residential development, with densities ranging from detached houses through to four-story apartment buildings, with commercial ground floor uses.

Many of the streets in Bruce are named after people and places associated with Australian tertiary education, including:^[3]

• Agar Street –Wilfred Eade Agar, professor of zoology
• Battye Street –James Battye, chancellor
• Braybrooke Street – Ernest Kingston Braybrooke, professor of law
• College Street – Canberra College of Advanced Education, now theUniversity of Canberra
• Crisp Circuit –Finlay Crisp, professor and Rhodes Scholar
• Funder Street –Kathleen Funder, writer, teacher, and educational psychologist
• Jaeger Circuit –John Conrad Jaeger, professor of geophysics and mathematics
• Leverrier Street – Frank Leverrier, vice-chancellor
• Mugglestone Place – Donald Mugglestone, professor of physics
• Purdie Street – Alexander Purdie, professor of geology
• Thynne Street –Andrew Joseph Thynne, government minister and university chancellor and vice-chancellor (who pronounced his name "thin")

The suburb is also relatively well-served bypublic transport, with routes R2, R3 andR4 running through it via the Calvary Hospital,Radford College, and theUniversity of Canberra.^[7][8][9] Route R9 connects the suburb to theGungahlin light rail atDickson.^[10] Additionally, a number of cycle routes provide links to the Inner North,Belconnen Town Centre, andKaleen.

For the purposes ofAustralian federal elections for theHouse of Representatives, Bruce is in theDivision of Canberra.^[11]

For the purposes of Australian Capital Territory elections for theACT Legislative Assembly, Bruce is in theGinninderra electorate.^[12]

Bruce is dominated by thegreywacke of theOrdovician Pittman Formation. Bands of the black ActonShale Member are found under the University of Canberra and theCalvary Hospital. Glebe FarmAdamellite is a coarse porphyritic micro adamellite of theSilurian age. It intrudes in the west north and southeast and southwest of University of Canberra. A triangle ofSilurian age calcareous shale of the Canberra formation is in the north east of Bruce.^[13]

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  Canberra Stadium
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  Australian Institute of Sport
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  University of Canberra
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  Canberra Institute of Technology
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  Residential area within Bruce
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  The Hub apartment complex
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  Apartments, Braybrooke Street

Wikimedia Commons has media related toBruce, Australian Capital Territory.

• Raggatt, Matthew (11 April 2014)."A weekend in your suburb: 36 hours in Bruce".The Canberra Times. Archived fromthe original on 18 April 2014.

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