Bossley Park is a

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, in the state of

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. Bossley Park is located 36 kilometres west of the

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in the

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of the

City of Fairfield The Fairfield City Council is a local government area in the west of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. The council was first incorporated as the "Municipal District of Smithfield and Fairfield" on 8 December 1888, and the coun ...

. Bossley Park is part of the

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region.

History

Bossley Park was named after John Brown Bossley (1810–72), an English chemist who purchased a large block of land on Smithfield Road. He named his property ''Edensor'' after a

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. When the area north of Edensor was subdivided in 1890, it became known as Bossley Park. The public school was built in 1890 and a post office in 1895. After

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, Bossley Park received many migrants from

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, who have since played a large role in the local community. Bossley Park and its surrounding suburbs were rural areas until the 1970s, when they were developed into a residential settlement.

Demographics

According to the 2021 census of population, there were 15,492 residents in Bossley Park. 41.4% of people were born in Australia. The most common other countries of birth were

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(22.4%),

(3.5%),

Vietnam Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., group="n" is a country in Southeast Asia, at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of and population of 96 million, making i ...

(3.8%),

Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...

(2.8%) and

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(1.8%). 29.9% of people only spoke English at home. Other languages spoken at home included

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(

Assyrian Assyrian may refer to: * Assyrian people, the indigenous ethnic group of Mesopotamia. * Assyria, a major Mesopotamian kingdom and empire. ** Early Assyrian Period ** Old Assyrian Period ** Middle Assyrian Empire ** Neo-Assyrian Empire * Assyrian ...

/ Chaldean) (23.1%),

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(10.5%),

Italian Italian(s) may refer to: * Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries ** Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom ** Italian language, a Romance language *** Regional Ita ...

(4.5%), and

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(4.4%). The most common reported ancestries were

/ Chaldean (23.1%),

(11.4%),

Australian Australian(s) may refer to: Australia * Australia, a country * Australians, citizens of the Commonwealth of Australia ** European Australians ** Anglo-Celtic Australians, Australians descended principally from British colonists ** Aboriginal Au ...

s (9.4%), Iraqi (8.6%). The most common responses for religion in Bossley Park were

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(49.3%), Assyrian Apostolic (8.0%), No religion (8.0%),

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(6.4%), and not stated (5.8%). Christianity was the largest religious group reported overall (78.8%).

Education

Bossley Park has a number of government schools including

Bossley Park High School Bossley Park High School (abbreviated as BPHS) is a government-funded co-educational comprehensive secondary day school, located in Bossley Park, a western suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Established in 1988, the school enrolle ...

, Bossley Park Public School and Prairievale Public School. There is also the Catholic run Mary Immaculate Primary School.

Places of worship

* Mary Immaculate Catholic Church * St Thomas the Apostle Chaldean Catholic Church * St Barnabas' Anglican Church Bossley Park residents are predominantly Catholic (Latin and Eastern), Assyrian Orthodox and Anglican.

Sport and recreation

The

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football club was founded in the area by Italian immigrants in the 1960s with the

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being built there in 1972 along with ongoing development of the licensed club. The eastern boundary of the suburb is adjacent to a large recreational park

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Climate

Like most of Sydney, Bossley Park has a

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(''Cfa'') with warm to hot summers and cool winters. Most of the precipitation falls in the first four months of the year, with fewer rainfall amount during the middle of the year.

Notable residents

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–

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goalkeeper and World Cup player.

References

{{Sydney Fairfield suburbs Suburbs of Sydney City of Fairfield