Dee Why

Dee Why ( ) is a coastal suburb of northern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia, 18 kilometres north-east of the Sydney central business district. It is the administrative centre of the local government area of Northern Beaches Council.

Dee Why ( ) is a coastal suburb of northern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia, 18 kilometres north-east of the Sydney central business district. It is the administrative centre of the local government area of Northern Beaches Council. File:UnitingChurchDY.JPG|The oldest church in Dee Why, the Cecil Gribble Congregation, of the Uniting Church File:St-Johns-Dee-Why.jpg|St John's Anglican Church File:St-Kevins-Dee-Why.jpg|St Kevin's Catholic Church, with its distinctive tent-like architecture File:Dee-Why-Baptist.jpg|Dee Why Baptist Church File:StDavidsUnitingChurchDY.jpg|St David's Uniting Church

Population

According to the , there were 23,354 residents¹ in Dee Why. 51.9% of people were born in Australia. The most common other countries of birth were England (5.9%), Brazil (4.2%), China (3.6%), Nepal (3.2%) and India (3.2%). 61.6% of people only spoke English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Portuguese 4.6%, Nepali 3.1%, Tibetan 2.4%, Mandarin 2.1% and Spanish 2.0%. Dee Why's housing is higher density than average for Australia. Of occupied private dwellings in Dee Why, 81.9% were flats, units or apartments with 15.3% being separate houses and 2.4% being semi-detached. One famous resident of Dee Why was Edward (later Sir Edward) Hallstrom, who in 1923, after studying refrigeration and patents in the field, experimented in his backyard shed and developed the Icy Ball absorption refrigerator which ran on kerosene. Writing celebrating this beach is featured in “Guide to Sydney Beaches” Meuse Press.

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