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The suburb of Corrimal is located in the Local Government area of Wollongong and covers an area of approximately 5.1 Sq Km.

The surrounding suburbs include Cataract, Russell Vale and Fernhill.

In 2006, the population of Corrimal was 6,232 people, with the main age group being people between 40 and 49 years of age.

The largest segment of the population is not in Labour Force, in general those in employment work as Professionals with most people travelling to work by driving a car.

There are approximately 2,485 dwellings, with the majority of these (66%) being house. 39.8% of properties in the area are fully owned, with 26.7% of the properties being purchased and 69% being owner occupied.

Married people account for 70% of the population and households in Corrimal are mainly couples with no children.

There are 16 Parks, 5 Child Care Centres and 3 Primary Schools.

Local Amenities include 2 Clubs, a Post Office, a Swimming Pool and 5 Churches of different denominations.

Currently, the median sale price of Houses, Units and Vacant Land in Corrimal is $382,914 compared to $387,055 for the Local Government Area of Wollongong.

Corrimal is a northern suburb of the city of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. Corrimal's CBD is situated on the Princes Highway, and several streets adjacent to it. The main shopping centres are Stockland Corrimal and Corrimal Park Mall next to the park on the highway. Outside this centre is an old locomotive that Corrimal is known for, the welcome signs featuring it. It ran on the Bulli Colliery Line (no longer existent) to Bellambi Haven from 1909 to 1967. To the west is a lawn bowls club and a wealthy foothill neighbourhood of residences bordering bushland.

Corrimal is served by Corrimal railway station on the South Coast Line, located on Railway Street which connects the station to the heart of the town.

Immediately west of Corrimal railway station is the Corrimal Cokeworks, open to the public on Tuesdays. The towers are a prominent local sight and can be seen from Wollongong. The railway crosses the first level crossing north of Wollongong immediately north of the station.

On the second Sunday in September Corrimal hosts the annual Spring Into Corrimal festival, which includes market stalls on the closed main streets, a parade, contest and other activities. 2009 was the 30th anniversary of the parade. In the 2007 festival the world's largest skateboard was displayed.

Corrimal has four primary schools and one high school. St Columbkille's Corrimal is Corrimal's leading Catholic School.There is also Corrimal Public School, The Illawarra Advestist School, Corrimal High and The South Coast School For Children with Autism.

The suburb takes its name from a point on the bordering Illawarra escarpment which was known as Mount Corrimal (named after the Aboriginal Dreamtime warrior Kurimul) and now called Broker's Nose.

The first industry and settlement at Corrimal was that of logging, followed by mining operations. In 1830 the first grant of land was made, to James Martin, of 50 acres (200,000 m2). Corrimal was first recorded in 1839 when a grant was sold at Corrimal.

In 1834 the Bulli Parish road was made with convict labour, directed by Major Mitchell. In 1883 Thomas Bertram opened the Corrimal colliery, also known as the Corrimal-Balgownie Colliery. Corrimal station opened in 1887. In 1887 bullock teams stopped transporting coal from the mine to the railway, being replaced by a private colliery mine constructed by the Southern Coal Company, which had taken over operations from Bertram. In 1889 Broker's Nose Colliery was renamed Corrimal Colliery.

Streets ice cream was founded there in the 1930s.

The colliery closed in 1985.