Liverpool, Australia

Liverpool Sydney, New South Wales
Westfield Liverpool Shopping Centre
Population	24,095 (2011 census)
• Density	3,825/km2 (9,910/sq mi)
Established	1810
Postcode(s)	2170
Area	6.3 km2 (2.4 sq mi)
Location	32 km (20 mi) south-west of Sydney CBD
LGA(s)	City of Liverpool
State electorate(s)	Liverpool, Holsworthy
Federal Division(s)	Fowler
Suburbs around Liverpool: Ashcroft Mount Pritchard Chipping Norton Cartwright Liverpool Warwick Farm Lurnea Casula Moorebank

St Lukes Anglican Church
St Lukes Anglican Church
33°55′14″S 150°55′24″E / 33.92065°S 150.92346°E / -33.92065; 150.92346 (St Lukes Anglican Church)
Location	City of Liverpool
Country	Australia
Denomination	Anglican Church
Website	http://www.stlukesliverpool.org.au/
History
Dedication	1820
Architecture
Architect(s)	Francis Greenway
Groundbreaking	1818

Liverpool is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located in Greater Western Sydney 32 kilometres (20 mi) south-west of the Sydney central business district. Liverpool is the administrative seat of the local government area of the City of Liverpool.

Liverpool is one of the oldest urban settlements in Australia, founded on 7 November 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 area'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.

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. The Liverpool area 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.