Erasmia

Erasmia
Erasmia  Erasmia shown within Gauteng
Coordinates: 25°48′51″S 28°5′35″E / 25.81417°S 28.09306°ECoordinates: 25°48′51″S 28°5′35″E / 25.81417°S 28.09306°E
Country	South Africa
Province	Gauteng
Municipality	City of Tshwane
Area[1]
• Total	2.93 km^2 (1.13 sq mi)
Population (2011)[1]
• Total	6,932
• Density	2,400/km^2 (6,100/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)[1]
• Black African	12.6%
• Coloured	1.8%
• Indian/Asian	77.0%
• White	7.0%
• Other	1.6%
First languages (2011)[1]
• English	75.3%
• Afrikaans	12.5%
• Northern Sotho	2.5%
• Tswana	1.2%
• Other	8.5%
Postal code (street)	0183
PO box	0023

Erasmia is a suburb, southwest of central Pretoria in the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality. Originally a whites-only area under apartheid, increasing numbers of Indians from neighbouring Laudium moved in, following the abolition of segregation in the early 1990s, and the construction of a direct link road between the two areas. Erasmia lies west of the R55 route In 2001, 65.72% of the population was Indian,^[2] and by 2011, Indians made up 77.03% of the population.^[1] The area called Christoburg although technically a different suburb, is for census ^[1] and other purposes usually treated as part of Erasmia.

References

1. "Sub Place Erasmia". Census 2011.
2. Sub Place Erasmia Census 2001