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Maryvale
Maryvale
	Maryvale Maryvale
	Coordinates: 26°09′11″S 28°05′13″E / 26.153°S 28.087°E
Country	South Africa
Province	Gauteng
Municipality	City of Johannesburg
Main Place	Johannesburg
Area
• Total	0.06 km2 (0.02 sq mi)
Population (2011)
• Total	85
• Density	1,400/km2 (3,700/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)
• Black African	62.8%
• Coloured	8.1%
• White	29.1%
First languages (2011)
• English	42.9%
• Northern Sotho	15.5%
• Zulu	11.9%
• Southern Ndebele	8.3%
• Other	21.4%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
Postal code (street)	2192

Maryvale is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region 3. It is a tiny triangular suburb surrounded by the suburbs of Orchards and Sydenham.

History

The suburb was founded in 1939 and borders Louis Botha Avenue.^[2]^: 292 It was surveyed around 1912 and developed from 1921 on land originally on the farm Klipfontein.^[3] The suburb's land was owned by Ockert Jacobus van Wyk and was named after his wife Mary.^[3] The suburb consists mainly of businesses and a small number of houses.^[2]^: 292 The suburb is also the home of Maryvale College, a Catholic primary and high school formed in the same year as the suburb though the red bricked church on the grounds was built a year earlier.^[2]^: 295

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Sub Place Maryvale". Census 2011.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Orange Grove Precinct. Heritage Impact Assessment & Conservation Management Plan. Report Phase 3. Volume 3" (PDF). Johannesburg Development Agency (published 16 May 2016). 19 February 2017.
^ ^a ^b Raper, Peter E.; Moller, Lucie A.; du Plessis, Theodorus L. (2014). Dictionary of Southern African Place Names. Jonathan Ball Publishers. p. 1412. ISBN 9781868425501.