Badgerys Creek, New South Wales
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Badgerys Creek, also known as Badgery's Creek or Aerotropolis, is a
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of
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, in the state of
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,
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, located approximately west of the
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, in the
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s of the City of Liverpool. It is part of the
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region and is adjacent to
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, Austral and the Blue Mountains. The suburb is best known as being the most favoured site for a
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. In April 2014, the
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confirmed the construction of the
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, initially scheduling construction in 2016, but construction actually began in September 2018 and is currently scheduled for completion in 2026.


History

James Badgery was a British-born farmer and
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who, in 1806, was granted in the suburb that bears his name today. His original land grant was on the north side of Elizabeth Drive; land which today is used for farming research by the
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and
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. Badgery named his property ''Exeter Farm'' but the creek running through the property became known as Badgery's Creek and that name was eventually applied to the local area. Badgery bought other land to the south of his grant and after he died, the area was subdivided in the 1880s, vastly increasing the local population. Badgerys Creek Post Office opened on 10 July 1894 and closed in 1989. A school was established in 1895 and the area gradually developed as a rural suburb which by 1981 had a population of . From 1954 until 1991, the Fleurs field station at Badgerys Creek was an important site for Australian
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, hosting several radio telescope arrays. The station was initially operated by
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, and then later by the
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. In 1986, the
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announced that the
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would be sited at Badgerys Creek. The government bought a number of properties for that purpose, and as a result of that, as well as concerns about living near an airport, many people moved away, meaning that by 1996 there were fewer than 500 residents. By the the population had further shrunk to 168. Construction of the airport had not started, but in 2012 an 8 million report into Sydney's aviation needs found that Badgerys Creek remained the best site, with construction subsequently scheduled to start in 2016. In March 2023, a south-eastern portion of Badgerys Creek became part of the newly-gazetted suburb of Bradfield.


Geography

Badgerys Creek Badgerys Creek, also known as Badgery's Creek or Aerotropolis, is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia, located approximately west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government areas of the City of ...
flows north into a reservoir in the suburb's north, as does South Creek, the suburb's eastern boundary. West of the reservoir lies Mills Hill, and south-west of that, by just over a kilometre, is Raymond Hill, . The western boundary is Oaky Creek, and then Cosgrove Creek after the two merge north of Elizabeth Drive, and to the south-west the hill known as Anchau ( AHD).


Climate

Badgerys Creek has a
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(''Cfa'') with hot summers, which vary from dry to humid, and cool winters. Due to its open grassy location, nighttime temperatures are slightly lower than the nearby suburban areas in western Sydney. There is the occasional frost in some winter mornings, where the months from April to September have recorded severe frost. Most of the rain falls in late summer and early autumn, which is usually accompanied by a
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. Due to the
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, the driest months are in late winter and early spring, which have days. On 4 January 2020, a heat logger registered a temperature of in the suburb, which was on the same day when Penrith recorded a temperature of .


Commercial area

North of Elizabeth Drive, a substantial amount of land is taken up by the
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Research Station, the
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MacGarvie Smith Veterinary Farm, and a landfill depot. Much of the research establishment is dotted with reservoirs. The southeast includes a brickworks, and land owned by
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, also featuring a number of reservoirs. The suburb is also home to the Hubertus Liverpool Rifle Club.''UBD CityLink Street Directory'' Sydney Maps 224, 225, 244 & 245, 19th Edition, Universal Publishers, 2007, Published in Australia South of Elizabeth Drive was also a settled area.


Schools

The suburb had one primary school, Badgerys Creek Public School, decommissioned in 2014 to make way for Sydney's second airport. Nearby there were two churches with cemeteries, also moved.


Demographics

In the , there were 168 people in Badgerys Creek. 51.2% of respondents were born in Australia; the next most common countries of birth included
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(excluding
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and
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) 13.1%,
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6.0%,
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4.8% and
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3.0%. 39.9% of people only spoke
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at home; the next most common languages spoken at home included
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20.8%,
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7.7%,
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5.4%, Khmer 5.4% and
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4.2%.


Parks

The suburb is home to Badgerys Creek Park.


Transport

The under-construction
Western Sydney Airport Western Sydney International (Nancy-Bird Walton) Airport , also known as Badgerys Creek Airport or Western Sydney Airport, is an international airport under construction in the suburbs of Luddenham and Badgerys Creek, New South Wales. Together ...
is located within the suburb of Badgerys Creek. The suburb will also be serviced by the
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and Airport Business Park stations of the Western Sydney Airport metro line. Both stations are located within the airport complex. The
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is currently under construction and is parallel to Elizabeth Drive. Both roads run east-west through the suburb. The airport, metro stations and M12 Motorway will be completed in 2026.


References

{{Sydney Penrith suburbs, state=collapsed Suburbs of Sydney City of Liverpool (New South Wales) City of Penrith Resumed localities in Australia