City of Liverpool (New South Wales)

The following suburbs and localities are located within the Liverpool City Council:

At the 2016 census there were 204,326 people in the Liverpool local government area, of these 49.6 per cent were male and 50.4 per cent were female. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people made up 1.5 per cent of the population; significantly below the NSW and Australian averages of 2.9 and 2.8 per cent respectively. The median age of people in the Liverpool City Council was 33 years; significantly lower than the national median of 38 years. Children aged 0 – 14 years made up 22.7 per cent of the population and people aged 65 years and over made up 10.4 per cent of the population. Of people in the area aged 15 years and over, 51.8 per cent were married and 11.0 per cent were either divorced or separated.[1]

Population growth in the Liverpool City Council between the 2001 census and the 2006 census was 7.14 per cent and in the subsequent five years to the 2011 census, population growth was 9.44 per cent. At the 2016 census, the population in the City increased by 13.24 per cent. When compared with total population growth of Australia for the same period, being 8.8 per cent, population growth in the Liverpool local government area was significantly higher than the national average.[1][3][4][5] The median weekly income for residents within the City of Liverpool was lower than the national average.

At the 2016 census, the area was linguistically diverse, with a significantly higher than average proportion (57.2 per cent) where two or more languages are spoken (national average was 22.2 per cent); and a significantly lower proportion (41.4 per cent) where English only was spoken at home (national average was 72.7 per cent). The proportion of residents who stated a religious affiliation with Islam was in excess of four times the national average; and the proportion of residents with no religion slightly less than one–third the national average.[1]

Selected historical census data for Liverpool local government area
Census year			2001[3]	2006[4]	2011[5]	2016[1]
Population		Estimated residents on census night	153,633	164,603	180,143	204,326
		LGA rank in terms of size within New South Wales		16th	12th	9th
		% of New South Wales population			2.60%	2.73%
		% of Australian population	0.82%	0.83%	0.83%	0.87%
Cultural and language diversity
Ancestry, top responses		Australian			15.5%	13.4%
		English			12.6%	11.3%
		Italian			6.1%	5.4%
		Indian			4.9%	5.2%
		Lebanese			4.3%	4.8%
Language, top responses (other than English)		Arabic	6.4%	7.6%	9.5%	11.4%
		Hindi	3.2%	3.8%	4.5%	4.0%
		Vietnamese	3.6%	4.1%	4.4%	4.9%
		Spanish	3.2%	3.1%	2.8%	2.5%
		Serbian	n/c	n/c	n/c	2.4%
Religious affiliation
Religious affiliation, top responses		Catholic	35.9%	34.0%	32.4%	28.6%
		Islam	7.5%	8.3%	10.7%	12.7%
		No religion, so described	6.3%	6.8%	7.5%	11.3%
		Not stated, so described	n/c	n/c	n/c	9.2%
		Anglican	15.2%	12.3%	10.7%	7.4%
Median weekly incomes
Personal income		Median weekly personal income		A$440	A$510	A$584[6]
		% of Australian median income		94.4%	88.4%	88.2%
Family income		Median weekly family income		A$1,082	A$1,401	A$1,663
		% of Australian median income		105.4%	94.6%	95.9%
Household income		Median weekly household income		A$1,155	A$1,299	A$1,550
		% of Australian median income		98.6%	105.7%	107.8%

It is one of the oldest urban settlements in Australia, founded in 1810 as an agricultural centre by Governor Lachlan Macquarie. He named it after Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of Liverpool, who was then the Secretary of State for the Colonies and the British city of Liverpool upon which some of the city's architecture is based.

Liverpool is at the head of navigation of the Georges River and combined with the Great Southern Railway from Sydney to Melbourne reaching Liverpool in the late 1850s, Liverpool became a major agricultural and transportation centre as the land in the district was very productive. A large army base was established in Liverpool during World War I, and exists to this day as the Holsworthy Barracks. There are a number of other military establishments in neighbouring Moorebank.

Until the 1950s, Liverpool was still a satellite town with an agricultural economy based on poultry farming and market gardening. However the tidal surge of urban sprawl which engulfed the rich flatlands west of Sydney known as the Cumberland Plain soon reached Liverpool, and it became an outer suburb of metropolitan Sydney with a strong working-class presence and manufacturing facilities. Liverpool also became renowned for its vast Housing Commission estates housing thousands of low-income families after the slum clearance and urban renewal programs in inner-city Sydney in the 1960s.

The City of Liverpool is home to the largest municipal library in Australia,[37]

• List of local government areas in New South Wales
• Local government areas of New South Wales

• Liverpool City Council website