Villawood, New South Wales: Difference between revisions

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| type = suburb

| name = Villawood

| city = Sydney

| state = nsw

| image = Villawood shops.JPG

| caption = Woodville Shopping CentreVillage (now demolished)

| pop_footnotes = <ref name=census>{{Census 2016 AUS|id=SSC14074|name=Villawood (State Suburb)|accessdateaccess-date=12 April 2018|quick=on}}</ref>

| area elevation = 25

| area =
| stategov = [[Electoral district of Bankstown|Bankstown]]

| fedgov = [[Division of Blaxland|Blaxland]]

| near-nw = [[Old Guildford]]
| near-n = [[Guildford, New South Wales|Old Guildford]]

| near-nne = [[Guildford,Chester New South Wales|GuildfordHill]]

| near-new = [[Chester HillCarramar, New South Wales|Chester HillCarramar]]

| near-we = [[CarramarChester Hill, New South Wales|CarramarChester Hill]]

| near-esw = [[Chester HillLansdowne, New South Wales|Chester HillLansdowne]]

| near-sws = [[Lansdowne, New SouthBass Wales|LansdowneHill]]

| near-sse = [[Bass Hill, New South Wales|Bass Hill]]

| dist1dir1 = 22west

'''Villawood''', a [[suburb]] of [[Local government in Australia|local government areaareas]]s [[City of Canterbury-Bankstown]] and [[City of Fairfield]], is 2227 kilometres west of the [[Sydney central business district]], in the state of [[New South Wales]], [[Australia]], and is a part of the [[Greater Western Sydney]] region.

The [[Indigenous Australian|Aboriginal]] tribe of Gandangara once lived in the area. European settlement began in the early 1840s. During the 1860s, Villawood was used as pastoral land, but it was overrun with wild dogs. Woodville Road, which runs through Villawood, was once named Dog Trap Road because many farmers set dog traps for these wild dogs. A train station opened in 1922 to service the area was originally known as Woodville Road. Unfortunately, there was confusion with another place called [[Woodville, New South Wales|Woodville]] in the [[Hunter Region|Hunter Valley]] and thus the name was transposed into 'Villawood'.<ref>''The Book of Sydney Suburbs'', Compiled by Frances Pollon, ''[[Angus & Robertson Publishers]]'', 1990, Published in Australia {{ISBN|0-207-14495-8}}, page 260</ref>

The Villawood area is home to a large [[Public housing|public housing in Australia|public housing]] estate constructed around the 1950s-1970s consisting of detached cottages, semi-detached townhouses, walk up apartments on Urana street, and formerly a [[Radburn design housing]] complex onwithin thea sightprecinct ofbetween ThurinaVillawood parkRoad, Kamira Avenue & Kamira Circuit (behind the Woodville Shopping Village), which became infamous for serious social issues, such as drugs and anti-social youth crime, even eventually breeding a gang called “the"the Bronx boys”boys", dabbling in the drug trade and car-rebirthing before the eventual demolition of the complex in 1998.

[[Villawood East Public School]] and Sacred Heart Primary School are located in the suburb. There are also day and community centres, several Christian churches and a Mosque conducts Islamic services in the old post office building on Woodville roadRoad at the shopping centre.

Villawood Place was once a major shopping centre, serving the surrounding areas. After nearby [[Bass Hill, New South Wales|Bass Hill]] Plaza opened, many Villawood businesses went into decline, leaving a legacy of abandoned shop fronts and buildings, including the abandoned [[Franklins]] supermarket and large [[Australia Post]] office. There has been rejuvenation and renovation of Woodville (Villawood) Place since with construction of the new [[Aldi]] supermarket, [[Bunnings]]and homegoods stores, a bakery, chemists, grocers and other shops. It is located in proximity to [[Villawood railway station]]. A business park in Villawood holds enterprises concerning hardware products, furniture, auto parts and second-hand goods. [[Leightonfield railway station]] services an industrial area in the eastern part of Villawood.

[[Villawood railway station]] and [[Leightonfield railway station]] are on the [[BankstownMain Southern railway line|Bankstown Line]] of the [[Sydney Trains]] network.

==PopulationDemographics==

At the {{CensusAU|2016}}, Villawood recorded a population of 6,032. Of these:<ref name=census/>

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