Lucas

Lucas is a suburb of the City of Ballarat. It was created on 23 June 2011 from a former part of Cardigan. The population at the 2021 census was 2,994.

Type: Residential area
Description: locality in Victoria, Australia
Also known as: “Lucas, Victoria” and “Lucas, Victoria, Australia”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Ballarat High School and Arch of Victory.

Ballarat High School

School

Ballarat High School is a government secondary school located in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. Ballarat High School is situated 4 km east of Lucas.

Arch of Victory

Monument

Photo: Lobster1, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Arch of Victory is a monument, which is situated 3½ km east of Lucas.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Haddon and Miners Rest.

Haddon is a township in the Golden Plains Shire, 12 km west of Ballarat. The population at the 2016 census was 1,194. 84.4% of people were born in Australia and 90.8% of people spoke only English at home. Haddon is situated 7 km southwest of Lucas.

Miners Rest

Suburb

Miners Rest is a suburb north of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia on the north-western rural-urban fringe of the city, 11 kilometres northwest of the Central Business District. Miners Rest is situated 8 km north of Lucas.

Ballarat

Photo: Tiimta, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Ballarat is a city about 110 km north-west of Melbourne in the Goldfields region of Victoria. Ballarat is most noted as a former goldmining town with excellent examples of Australian colonial architecture, and as the site of the famous miners' revolt at the Eureka Stockade in 1854.

Lucas

Category: locality
Location: City of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude

-37.54855° or 37° 32′ 55″ south

Longitude

143.77303° or 143° 46′ 23″ east

Population

987

Elevation

447 metres (1,467 feet)

Open location code

4RJ5FQ2F+H6

OpenStreetMap ID

way 239035547

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=residential

GeoNames ID

10109462

Wikidata ID

Q6696061

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