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An immigrant, George Guthrie (1828-1910) opened Epsom\u2019s best-known industry, Bendigo Pottery, in 1858.<\/p>\n
Guthrie\u2019s pottery coincided with the opening of religious and civic institutions at Epsom, an Anglican school (1856-81), a Catholic school (1856-76), a Wesleyan church (1859) and a police station (1862).<\/p>\n
Gold mining was the main industry of the 1860s, with 16 crushing mills and 12 horse puddling machines, and remained so until the late 1880s when the diggings were nearly all worked out after which selectors took up farms, including vineyards and orchards.<\/p>\n
Epsom was an agricultural and industrial town until after the 1950s.<\/p>\n
As the iron foundry gave out market gardens supplied tomatoes to a pulp processing factory. Throughout all of Epsom\u2019s industrial history, however, the Bendigo Pottery has continued. Until the 1930s the pottery manufactured household wares, pipe ware, bricks, tiles, bottles and demijohns.<\/p>\n
During subsequent years pipework became more important for sewerage schemes but by the 1950s plasticware overtook much of the ceramic houseware and the pottery remained technologically unadvanced.<\/p>\n
In 1968 the possibility of reintroducing household pottery was taken up, and the new era of handmade Epsomware began.<\/p>\n
Tourism soon followed and the former stables became a pottery gallery, and along with the kilns and other structures were placed on the Australian and Victorian historic buildings registers.<\/p>\n
CoreLogic data indicates that the predominant age group in Epsom is 0-9 years with households in Epsom being primarily couples with children and are likely to be repaying $1400 – $1799 per month on mortgages. In general, people in Epsom work in a professional occupation.<\/p>\n
In 2011, 70.4 per cent of the homes in Epsom were owner-occupied compared with 73.3 per cent in 2016.<\/p>\n
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Epsom was thought to be named after the horse racing town of Epsom Downs, Surrey, England.<\/p>\n
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Population: 14,324<\/p>\n
Male: 48.2%<\/p>\n
Female: 51.8%<\/p>\n
Median age: 31<\/p>\n
5-year population change: 60.9%<\/p>\n
House median value: $574,000<\/p>\n
Change in Median Price: (5yrs) is 50%<\/p>\n
Median asking rent per week: $400<\/p>\n
Average length of ownership: 9 years<\/p>\n
Owner occupiers:75%<\/p>\n
Renters: 25%<\/p>\n
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House median sale price:<\/p>\n
October 2021: $510,000<\/p>\n
October 2020: $415,000<\/p>\n
October 2019: $360,000<\/p>\n
October 2018: $349,750<\/p>\n
October 2017: $351,000<\/p>\n
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House sales per annum:<\/p>\n
Period ending October 2021: 111<\/p>\n
Period ending October 2020: 82<\/p>\n
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Land median sale price:<\/p>\n
October 2021: $220,500<\/p>\n
October 2020: $240,000<\/p>\n
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Land sales per annum:<\/p>\n
Period ending October 2021: 13<\/p>\n
Period ending October 2020: 17<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Epsom is approximately 10.7 square kilometres and has three parks covering nearly 2.2 per cent of total area. The population in 2011 was 2687 people and by the 2016 Census had boomed to 4324, showing major growth of 60.9 per cent in the area during that time. Epsom is a developing outlying northern suburb of […]<\/p>\n