Balmain
Facts
17 properties- Instance of
- suburb
- Located in
- New South Wales, Inner West, Municipality of Leichhardt, Petersham
- Coordinate location
- 🗺️ -33.848°, 151.168°[14]
- Coordinates
- 🗺️ -33.848°, 151.168°
- Described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- Elevation above sea level
- 13.0
- Female population
- 5433.0
- Located in the administrative territorial entity
- New South Wales, Inner West (2016–present), Municipality of Leichhardt (?–2016), Petersham[2][3][4]
- Located in/on physical feature
- Balmain peninsula[15]
- Male population
- 5019.0
- Named after
- William Balmain[12]
- Population
- 10,453, 10,454
- Postal code
- 2041[13]
- Shares border with
- Rozelle, Balmain East, Birchgrove[9][10][11]
- VIAF cluster ID
- 132696289
- Library of Congress authority ID
- n96113085
- Image (Wikimedia Commons)
- Balmain Court House Post Office.JPG ↗
- ArchINFORM location ID
- 45335
- Australian Statistical Geography 2011 ID
- SSC10090
- Australian Statistical Geography 2016 ID
- SSC10164
- Australian Statistical Geography 2021 ID
- SAL10165
- Dictionary of Sydney ID
- place/balmain
- Domain suburb profile ID
- balmain-nsw-2041
- Freebase ID
- /m/02q0xt
- GNS Unique Feature ID
- -1557183
- GeoNames ID
- 2177052
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- Geographical Names Board of NSW ID
- MaIOBKZT
- MusicBrainz area ID
- 8cc3a5af-504e-4f59-aaa2-593f3497326b
- National Library of Israel J9U ID
- 987007535515605171
- OpenStreetMap relation ID
- 5680947
- Topic's main category
- Category:Balmain, New South Wales
- UN/LOCODE
- AUBLM
- Who's on First ID
- 101929449
- WorldCat Entities ID
- E39PBJyxgHpPGwQW7XFHxwQKBP
- Yale LUX ID
- place/beee4c8c-eb52-47c6-9d4d-10a37a715452
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- Source
- GeoNames
- Edition
- 20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Credit
- CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
- Bronze
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- 4ort-mint · lake · version not recorded
People born here 9
Located in the administrative territorial entity 3
Shares border with 3
← Shares border with 3
Associated electoral district 1
Country 1
Described by source 1
Instance of 1
Located in or next to body of water 1
Located in this place 1
People who died here 1
Residents 1
SNARC ID 1
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Summary
Balmain is a suburb[1].
Body
Geography
Located in include New South Wales[2], a state of Australia[16], in Australia[17], founded in 1788[18]; Inner West[3], a local government area of New South Wales[19], in Australia[20], founded in 2016[21]; and Petersham[4], a parish of New South Wales[22], in Australia[23]. Adjacent water bodies include White Bay[6], a bay[24], in Australia[25]; Mort Bay[7], a bight[26], in Australia[27]; and Iron Cove[8], a bay[28], in Australia[29].
Physical Characteristics
Balmain's elevation above sea level is recorded as 13 m[30]. Population counts include {'amount': '+10453'}[31] and {'amount': '+10454'}[32].