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Verulam has 30 residential suburbs, 4 Industrial and 12 Rural areas.The residential areas being :- 1. Barrs Flats 2. Brindhaven 3. Canelands 4. Charnwood 5. Coniston 6. Cordoba Gardens 7. Dawncrest 8. Everset Heights 9. Fairview Park 10. Grange 11. Hammonds Farm 12. Lotusville 13. Mission Station 14. Mountview 15. Mount Veron 16. Oaklands 17. Ottawa 18. Parkgate 19. Redcliffe 20. Riet River 21. Riverview 22. Riyadh 23. Sanaa 24. South Ridge 25. Suriya Heights 26. Temple Valley 27. Trenance Park 28. Umhloti Drift 29. Umhloti Heights 30. Waterloo

Industrial Areas:- 1. Canelands, Lotusville, Missionlands and Riverview.

The rural areas are 1. Amoatana 2. Buffelsdraai 3. Cottonlands 4. Hilltop 5. Imbali 6. Inanda 7. Khutala 8. New Glasgow 9. Oakford 10. Osindisweni 11. Quarry Heights 12. Zwelitsha.

Of the residential areas, the largest township is Trenance Park with a population of 8564 ( census 2001, Stats SA) and Waterloo a close second Largest, with a population of 7801. The last of the township to be built was Waterloo, altho7ugh presently ( 2013) there is a low cost extension to Trenance Park, which will remain the largest township.

Further information can be researched at the Veruram Documentation Centre based at the basement of the Verulam Municipal Library where a large amount of historical information in the archives can be gleaned.

Verulam was the only town that was lead by Indians for a period of time during the apartheid era ( pre 1994), after being colonised by the British, not after a rule of the place by the Wesleyans, the founders of this place.

A band of settlers gathered here from the old Roman town of Verulamium, after which the place was named. It was nicknamed the "City of Saints" due to the religious intentions of the settlers. The first building that was built by the settlers was a church.