City of Fairfield
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City of Fairfield New South Wales |
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Location in Metropolitan Sydney
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| Coordinates | 33°52′S 150°55′E / 33.867°S 150.917°ECoordinates: 33°52′S 150°55′E / 33.867°S 150.917°E | ||||||||||||
| Population | 204,442 (2015) (20th) | ||||||||||||
| • Density | 2,004/km2 (5,190/sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Area | 102 km2 (39.4 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Time zone | AEST (UTC+10) | ||||||||||||
| • Summer (DST) | AEDT (UTC+11) | ||||||||||||
| Mayor | Frank Carbone ([Independent]) | ||||||||||||
| Council seat | Wakeley | ||||||||||||
| Region | Metropolitan Sydney | ||||||||||||
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| Website | City of Fairfield | ||||||||||||
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The City of Fairfield is a local government area in the south-west of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. The City of Fairfield is 102 square kilometres (39 sq mi).
A few small areas of the original bushland remain, including examples of Cumberland Plain vegetation, which is listed under the Threatened Species Conservation Act. There are 580 parks (60 of which are major parks), including, one of the largest urban parks in the world, Western Sydney Parklands. Fairfield City is mainly residential in nature with large-scale industrial estates at Wetherill Park and Smithfield.
Fairfield is considered one of the most ethnically diverse suburbs in Australia. At the 2011 Census, the proportion of residents in the Fairfield local government area who stated their ancestry as Vietnamese and Assyrian, was in excess of sixteen times the national average. The area was linguistically diverse, with Vietnamese, Arabic, Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, or Cantonese languages spoken in households, and ranged from two times to seventeen times the national averages. The Mayor of the City of Fairfield is Cr. Frank Carbone, first Independent Mayor in Fairfield.
Suburbs in the City of Fairfield are:
At the 2011 Census, there were 187,766 people in the Fairfield local government area, of these 49.3% were male and 50.7% were female. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people made up 0.7% of the population. The median age of people in the City of Fairfield was 36 years. Children aged 0 – 14 years made up 20.4% of the population and people aged 65 years and over made up 12.0% of the population. Of people in the area aged 15 years and over, 49.6% were married and 11.6% were either divorced or separated.
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