Lalor Park is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Lalor Park is located 35 kilometres (22 mi) west of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of the City of Blacktown. Lalor Park is part of the Greater Western Sydney region. Lalor Park is commonly abbreviated as 'L.P'.

Population

According to the 2021 census of Population, there were 7,834 people in Lalor Park.

  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people made up 3.8% of the population.
  • 63.8% of people were born in Australia. The most common other countries of birth were India 3.9%, Philippines 3.4%, New Zealand 2.2%, England 1.5% and South Korea 1.3%.
  • 64.6% of people only spoke English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Arabic 3.9%, Tagalog 2.0%, Punjabi 1.9%, Korean 1.7% and Tamil 1.5%.
  • The most common responses for religion were No Religion 26.0%, Catholic 25.1% and Anglican 11.0%.[1]

Community Facilities

Lalor Park Library, decorated with bright, colourful murals all around its exterior, is the centerpiece of the community precinct
Lalor Park Community Garden, where numerous kinds of fruits, vegetables, and flowers are cultivated by volunteers

Lalor Park has a small but strong presence of community centres, which cluster around the Chiefly Reserve block along Freeman Street and include:

Commercial areas

Many painted murals adorn the exterior walls around Lalor Park shops, and are the works of local artists

Serving the primarily residential suburb of Lalor Park is an outdoor shopping precinct with a few dozen retailers and small businesses, located at the junction of Northcott Road and Freeman Street. Although the exterior walls of the buildings were vandalised, the graffiti has since been covered by murals painted by Danielle RG of Creative Groundz and Nathan Marshall of Common Groundz Cafe.[2]


Education

Lalor Park is the location of a number of educational institutions including:

Sport

Lalor Park Kookaburras Rugby League Club was established in 1959. They compete in the Parramatta Junior Rugby League. The club's colours are blue, brown and white. Home ground for the Kookaburras is Cavanagh Reserve (Venn Ave, Lalor Park). Lalor Park juniors that have played 1st grade in Australia include Mick Delroy, Feleti Mateo and Jorge Taufua and Brett Delaney.

Transport

The suburb is served by the Blacktown-Parklea branch of the North-West T-way and Sydney Trains Seven Hills railway station.

References

  1. ^ a b Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Lalor Park (State Suburb)". 2021 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 14 September 2024. Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ Vella, Joanne (9 May 2014). "Danielle Rawnsley-Galistan calls for locals to participate in documentary about Lalor Park". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 16 February 2025.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

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