Community hub
Recent from talks
Contribute something to knowledge base
Content stats: 0 posts, 0 articles, 1 media, 0 notes
Members stats: 0 subscribers, 0 contributors, 0 moderators, 0 supporters
Subscribers
Supporters
Contributors
Moderators
Hub AI
Fairfield West AI simulator
(@Fairfield West_simulator)
Hub AI
Fairfield West AI simulator
(@Fairfield West_simulator)
Fairfield West
Fairfield West is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Fairfield West is located 27 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of the City of Fairfield. Fairfield West is part of the Greater Western Sydney region.
Fairfield West shares the postcode of 2165 with the separate suburbs of Fairfield, Fairfield Heights and Fairfield East.
When British settlers first arrived in Sydney, the area that is now known as Fairfield West was inhabited by the Cabrogal tribe. A railway station was built at neighbouring Fairfield in 1856 leading to substantial population growth around the station which eventually to Fairfield West being subdivided in the 1870s. At the time it was mostly small farms but a Progress Association was established leading to a post office, school and a sportsground being built in the community. Timber cutting became a significant local industry and the sawmills brought other businesses into the new town, which was well established by the end of the 1800s. Fairfield West Public School was built there in 1925.
Fairfield West residents have the option of sending their children to Westfields Sports High School, Fairvale High School, or to a extent Fairfield High School, and Patrician Brothers' College, Fairfield
The Endeavour Sports Reserve, located near the confluence of Orphan School Creek and Green Valley Creek, is a large floodlit urban park and a sports ground that features shared soccer, cricket, league and hockey fields, and four tennis courts. The vegetation along the creek side has been identified by the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service as a Cumberland Plain Endangered Ecological Community. The narrow woodland strip, which border the creek, feature a walking/cycling path, and are dominated by Eucalyptus moluccana and Eucalyptus tereticornis trees. Although not in the suburb, Brenan Park is adjacent to the northeastern vicinity of Fairfield West.
At the 2021 census, there were 12,981 residents in Fairfield West.
The most common ancestries were Vietnamese (17.7%), Assyrian (11.9%), Chinese (8.8%), Australian (8.4%) and English (8.4%).
38.1% of people were born in Australia. The next most common countries of birth were Iraq (18.0 %), Vietnam (12.7%),Syria (4.7%), Cambodia (2.9%) and Lebanon (1.3%).
Fairfield West
Fairfield West is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Fairfield West is located 27 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of the City of Fairfield. Fairfield West is part of the Greater Western Sydney region.
Fairfield West shares the postcode of 2165 with the separate suburbs of Fairfield, Fairfield Heights and Fairfield East.
When British settlers first arrived in Sydney, the area that is now known as Fairfield West was inhabited by the Cabrogal tribe. A railway station was built at neighbouring Fairfield in 1856 leading to substantial population growth around the station which eventually to Fairfield West being subdivided in the 1870s. At the time it was mostly small farms but a Progress Association was established leading to a post office, school and a sportsground being built in the community. Timber cutting became a significant local industry and the sawmills brought other businesses into the new town, which was well established by the end of the 1800s. Fairfield West Public School was built there in 1925.
Fairfield West residents have the option of sending their children to Westfields Sports High School, Fairvale High School, or to a extent Fairfield High School, and Patrician Brothers' College, Fairfield
The Endeavour Sports Reserve, located near the confluence of Orphan School Creek and Green Valley Creek, is a large floodlit urban park and a sports ground that features shared soccer, cricket, league and hockey fields, and four tennis courts. The vegetation along the creek side has been identified by the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service as a Cumberland Plain Endangered Ecological Community. The narrow woodland strip, which border the creek, feature a walking/cycling path, and are dominated by Eucalyptus moluccana and Eucalyptus tereticornis trees. Although not in the suburb, Brenan Park is adjacent to the northeastern vicinity of Fairfield West.
At the 2021 census, there were 12,981 residents in Fairfield West.
The most common ancestries were Vietnamese (17.7%), Assyrian (11.9%), Chinese (8.8%), Australian (8.4%) and English (8.4%).
38.1% of people were born in Australia. The next most common countries of birth were Iraq (18.0 %), Vietnam (12.7%),Syria (4.7%), Cambodia (2.9%) and Lebanon (1.3%).
Recent media
Recent media