City of Liverpool (New South Wales)

For other uses, see City of Liverpool (disambiguation).

This article is about the local government area. For the suburb, see Liverpool, New South Wales.

The City of Liverpool is a local government area, administered by Liverpool City Council, located to the south-west of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. The area encompasses 305.5 square kilometres (118.0 sq mi) and its administrative centre is located in the suburb of Liverpool.

City of Liverpool New South Wales
Location in Metropolitan Sydney
Coordinates	33°56′S 150°55′E / 33.933°S 150.917°E / -33.933; 150.917
Population	204,326 (2016 census)^[1] (18th (Australia); 9th (NSW)) 223,304 (2018 est.)^[2]
• Density	668.82/km^2 (1,732.25/sq mi)
Established	27 June 1872 (1872-06-27) (as a municipal district)
Area	305.5 km^2 (118.0 sq mi)
Time zone	AEST (UTC+10)
• Summer (DST)	AEDT (UTC+11)
Mayor	Ned Mannoun
Council seat	Liverpool
Region	Greater Western Sydney
State electorate(s)	Badgerys Creek Cabramatta Holsworthy Leppington Liverpool Macquarie Fields Wollondilly
Federal division(s)	Fowler Hughes Hume Werriwa
Website	City of Liverpool
LGAs around City of Liverpool: Penrith Fairfield Canterbury-Bankstown Wollondilly City of Liverpool Canterbury-Bankstown Camden Campbelltown Sutherland

The mayor of the City is Cr. Ned Mannoun, a member of the Liberal Party.

Suburbs and localities in the local government area

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

• Ashcroft
• Austral
• Badgerys Creek
• Bringelly (shared with Camden)
• Busby
• Carnes Hill
• Cartwright
• Casula
• Cecil Hills
• Cecil Park (shared with Fairfield)
• Chipping Norton
• Denham Court (shared with Campbelltown)
• Edmondson Park
• Green Valley
• Greendale
• Hammondville
• Heckenberg
• Hinchinbrook
• Holsworthy
• Horningsea Park
• Hoxton Park
• Kemps Creek (shared with Penrith)
• Leppington (shared with Camden)
• Liverpool
• Luddenham (shared with Penrith)
• Lurnea
• Middleton Grange
• Miller
• Moorebank
• Mount Pritchard (shared with Fairfield)
• Pleasure Point
• Prestons
• Rossmore (shared with Camden)
• Sadleir
• Voyager Point
• Wallacia (shared with Penrith)
• Warwick Farm
• Wattle Grove
• West Hoxton

Demographics

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 City of Liverpool 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 City of Liverpool 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%
		Serbian			10.9%	5.2
		Italian			6.1%	5.4%
		Indian			4.9%	1.2%
		Lebanese			4.3%	4.8%
Language, top responses (other than English)
		Serbian	22.8%	18.1%	15.4%	2.7%
		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%
Religious affiliation
Religious affiliation, top responses		Catholic	35.9%	34.0%	32.4%	28.6%
		Islam	7.5%	8.3%	10.7%	12.7%
		Orthodox	12.3%	12.8%	13.5%	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%

Council

Current composition and election method

Liverpool City Council is composed of eleven councillors, including the mayor, for a fixed four-year term of office. The mayor is directly elected while the ten other Councillors are elected proportionally as two separate wards, each electing five councillors. The most recent election was held on 4 December 2021, and the makeup of the council, including the mayor, is as follows:^[7][8][9]

 

Party		Councillors
	Liberal Party	5
	Australian Labor Party	4
	Liverpool Community Independents Team	2
	Total	11

The current Council, elected in 2021, in order of election by ward, is:

Ward	Councillor		Party	Notes
Mayor		Ned Mannoun	Liberal	Elected 2021–present, 2012–2016.^[10]
North Ward^[11]		Mazhar Hadid	Liberal	Elected 2008. Deputy Mayor 2012–2014, 2020–2021.^[12]
		Nathan Hagarty	Labor	Elected 2016.
		Ali Karnib	Labor	Elected 2008, 1999–2004.^[13] Deputy Mayor 2016–2017, 2018–2020.^[14]^[15]
		Mel Goodman	Liberal	Elected 2021.
		Peter Harle	Community Independents	Elected 2008.
South Ward^[16]		Charishma Kaliyanda	Labor	Elected 2016.
		Fiona Macnaught	Liberal	Elected 2021.
		Richard Ammoun	Liberal	Elected 2021.
		Betty Green	Labor	Elected 2021.
		Karress Rhodes	Community Independents	Elected 2016. Deputy Mayor 2021–present.^[17]

Mayors

Mayor		Party	Term	Notes
	Ron Dunbier	Labor	December 1948 – 9 December 1952	^[18]^[19]^[20]^[21]
	Alex Grimson	Labor	9 December 1952 – 14 January 1953	^[22]^[23]^[24]
		Independent	14 January 1953 – December 1954
	John Macdonald		December 1954 – December 1955
	Bill Rynan		December 1955 – December 1956
	Ron Dunbier	Independent	December 1956 – December 1959	^[18]
	Joseph Bradshaw	Independent	December 1959 – December 1960	^[18]
	Ernie Smith		December 1960 – December 1961	^[18]
	Ron Dunbier	Independent	December 1961 – December 1962	^[18]
	Joseph Bradshaw	Independent	December 1962 – December 1963	^[18]
	Ernie Smith		December 1963 – December 1967	^[18]
	George Paciullo	Labor	December 1967 – December 1969	^[18]
	Joseph Bradshaw	Independent	December 1969 – September 1971	^[18]
	Kevin Napier	Labor	September 1971 – September 1972	^[18]
	Noel Short		September 1972 – September 1973	^[18]
	Joe Durrant		September 1973 – September 1974	^[18]^[25]
	Frank Oliveri	Independent	September 1974 – September 1975	^[18]
	Joseph Bradshaw	Independent	September 1975 – 31 March 1976	^[18]
Allen Henderson (Administrator)			31 March 1976 – 17 September 1977	^[26]^[27]
	Frank Oliveri	Independent	September 1977 – September 1978	^[18]
	Noel Short	Labor	September 1978 – September 1979	^[18]
	Ronald John Hollands		September 1979 – September 1980	^[18]
	Noel Short		September 1980 – September 1983	^[18]
	Frank Oliveri OAM	Independent	September 1983 – September 1984	^[18]^[28]
	Casey Conway	Labor	September 1984 – September 1986	^[18]
	Craig Knowles		September 1986 – September 1987	^[18]
	Casey Conway		September 1987 – September 1988	^[29]
	Gary Lucas	Independent	September 1988 – September 1989	^[18]
	Ronald John Hollands	Labor	September 1989 – September 1990	^[18]
	Colin Harrington	Independent	September 1990 – September 1991	^[18]
	Mark Latham	Labor	September 1991 – September 1994	^[30]
	George Paciullo		September 1994 – 16 March 2004	^[18]
Gabrielle Kibble AO (Administrator)			16 March 2004 – 13 September 2008	^[31]^[32]
	Wendy Waller	Labor	13 September 2008 – 8 September 2012	^[33]^[34]
	Ned Mannoun	Liberal	8 September 2012 – 10 September 2016	^[35]^[36]^[37]
	Wendy Waller	Labor	10 September 2016 – 21 December 2021	^[38]
	Ned Mannoun	Liberal	21 December 2021 – date

History

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.

Municipal history

On 19 September 1843, the Liverpool District Council was established by charter, with Captain Samuel Moore as its first magistrate and warden, and Thomas Valentine Blomfield, Thomas Harper, David Johnston, Joshua John Moore, Richard Sadlier and Edward Weston as councillors. Its area also included most of Sutherland Shire.^[39] The new form of government was not popular and fizzled out by 1850.^[40]

After 148 local residents lodged a petition with the governor on 4 September 1871, the Municipality of Liverpool was proclaimed on 27 June 1872.^[41][42][43] At its first election on 27 August 1872, Richard Sadleir was elected Mayor.

On 1 January 1949, the Municipality absorbed Riding B of the abolished Nepean Shire.^[44]

On 9 December 1960, the Municipality was proclaimed by Governor Eric Woodward as the City of Liverpool.^[45]

Regional history

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 one of the largest municipal libraries in Sydney.^{[46][better source needed]}

See also

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

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External links

• Liverpool City Council website