Boolaroo, New South Wales

Infobox Australian Place | type = suburb
name = Boolaroo
city = Newcastle
state = nsw


caption =
lga = City of Lake Macquarie
postcode = 2284
pop = 954 (2006 census)
area = 4.1
est =
parish = Kahibah
stategov = Lake Macquarie
fedgov = Charlton
dist1 = 19
dir1 = W
location1= Newcastle
dist2 = 10
dir2 = WNW
location2= Charlestown
near-nw = Argenton
near-n = Argenton
near-ne = Cardiff
near-w = Teralba
near-e = Macquarie Hills
near-sw = Teralba
near-s = Speers Point
near-se = Lakelands

Boolaroo is a suburb of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, located convert|19|km|mi|0|lk=on west of Newcastle's central business district. It is part of the City of Lake Macquarie local government area.

It was at the epicenter of the 1989 Newcastle earthquake. Despite its relative obscurity, Boolaroo borders onto a number of well known towns and suburbs within the Lake Macquarie Region, including Warners Bay, Speers Point and Toronto, and, for a small strip of land, fronts onto Lake Macquarie itself.

Within Boolaroo, is Cockle Creek railway station, New South Wales, a small station on the Newcastle and Central Coast railway line, New South Wales. Also, Boolaroo previously housed a lead/zinc smelter, owned by the former Pasminco (now Zinifex) however the site has been cleared since the smelter ceased operations in 2003.

Boolaroo is home to several churches, of mixed denominations, as well as Boolaroo Public School, a library, a cinema (which was partially destroyed in the 1989 Newcastle Earthquake) and a number of shops.

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