CITY OF FAIRFIELD

The 'City of Fairfield' is a Local Government Area in the south-west of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

Contents

Suburbs in the local government area

History

Population

Land Use

Environment

Schools

Culture

Sister cities

External links

Suburbs in the local government area

Suburbs in the City of Fairfield are:

★ Abbotsbury

★ Bonnyrigg

★ Bonnyrigg Heights

★ Bossley Park

★ Cabramatta

★ Cabramatta West

★ Canley Heights

★ Canley Vale

★ Carramar

★ Cecil Park

★ Edensor Park

★ Fairfield

★ Fairfield East

★ Fairfield Heights

★ Fairfield West

★ Greenfield Park

★ Horsley Park

★ Lansvale

★ Mount Pritchard

★ Old Guildford

★ Prairiewood

★ Smithfield

★ St Johns Park

★ Villawood

★ Wakeley

★ Wetherill Park

★ Yennora

History

For more than 30,000 years, Aboriginal people from the Cabrogal-Gandangara tribe tribe have lived in the area.
European settlement began in the mid 19th century supported by railway construction in 1856. At the turn of the century the area had a population of 2,500 people and with fertile soils, produced crops for distribution in Sydney.
Rapid population increase after World War II saw the settlement of many ex-service men and European migrants. Large scale Housing Commission development in the 1950s swelled the population to 38,000. By 1979, the population had reached 120,000 and the City was becoming one of the larger Local Government Areas in NSW.
On 4 September 2006, Fairfield Council announced that it had banned spitting in public, which is now punishable with a fine of up to $1100. This is the only ruling of its kind in New South Wales. This also applies to people who spit their chewing gum onto the floor.

Population

Fairfield City is home to approximately 182,000 people. The City of Fairfield is Australia's fifth largest city and the third largest in the Sydney metropolitan area (after Blacktown and Sutherland).
A large portion of Fairfield's residents are migrants and their descendants, notably from former Yugoslavia and more recently from Cambodia, Laos and especially Vietnam, the latter concentrated around the suburb of Cabramatta. Large Assyrian, African, Italian and Spanish-speaking populations also reside in Fairfield and surrounding suburbs such as Bossley Park, Wetherill Park and Smithfield.
While Fairfield City has a comparatively young population with many young families, the greatest growth is occurring in the number of older residents, those aged 65 years or more.

Land Use

Fairfield City is mainly residential in nature with large-scale industrial estates at Wetherill Park and Smithfield. There are four major business and retail centres at Fairfield, Cabramatta, Bonnyrigg and Prairiewood, as well as a large number of suburban shopping malls. Fairfield has three major shopping malls; Fairfield Forum, Neeta City and Fairfield Chase. There has been significant development in Neeta city with greater commercial opportunities. Due to Fairfield's culturally diverse population there are over twenty different multicultural cafés and restaurants including Italian, Assyrian, Spanish and Thai
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