Bexley is a suburb in

southern Sydney Southern Sydney, also commonly referred to as the Southern suburbs, is the southern metropolitan area of Greater Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Southern Sydney is a title for the regions and neighbourhoods which fall dire ...

, in the state of

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. Bexley is located south-west of the

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, in the

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of the

Bayside Council Bayside Council is a Local government in New South Wales, local government area in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is located around part of Botany Bay, to south of the Sydney central business district, Sydney CBD. It includes 29 subu ...

and is part of the

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area.

Commercial area

Transport

Bexley is currently served by

Transit Systems Transit Systems Group is an Australian-based public transport company, which also operates overseas through its subsidiary Tower Transit Group. Transit Systems Group is a subsidiary of the Kelsian Group, formerly SeaLink Travel Group. History ...

and

U-Go Mobility U-Go Mobility is a bus company in Sydney, Australia, that operates services in Region 10, which serves South Western Sydney, and Sutherland Shire. It is a 50:50 joint venture between UGL and Go-Ahead Group. History On 22 December 2022, U-Go Mo ...

bus services. A

steam tramway A tram (also known as a streetcar or trolley in Canada and the United States) is an urban rail transit in which Rolling stock, vehicles, whether individual railcars or multiple-unit trains, run on tramway tracks on urban public streets; some ...

opened on 13 October 1909 and operated from

Arncliffe railway station Arncliffe railway station is a heritage-listed railway station located on the Illawarra line, serving the Sydney suburb of Arncliffe in Bayside Council. It is served by Sydney Trains' T4 Eastern Suburbs & Illawarra Line services. It was adde ...

via Firth and Done Streets and then onto Wollongong, Forest and Stoney Creek Roads to Bexley Park, near Preddys Road. It closed on 1 January 1927.

Population

According to the of Population, there were 19,646 people usually resident in Bexley. 52.7% of people were born in Australia. The next most common countries of birth were China 6.7%,

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5.3%,

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3.8%,

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2.9% and

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1.8%. 38.2% of people only spoke English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Arabic 13.2%, Greek 7.1%, Macedonian 6.3%, Mandarin 6.0% and Cantonese 5.1%. The most common responses were Catholic 20.9%, No Religion 19.9%, Islam 16.3% and Eastern Orthodox 16.1%.

Notable residents

Patricia Carlon Patricia Bernadette Carlon (9 January 1927 - 29 July 2002) was an Australian crime fiction writer whose most notable works are fourteen suspenseful novels published between 1961 and 1970. She sometimes used the pen names Patricia Bernard and Bar ...

- crime fiction/thriller writer * Richard White - tech billionaire

Gallery

Houses

Image: Bexley house 3.JPG , Two-storey home, Gladstone Street Image: Bexley house 4.JPG , Single-storey

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cottage with wrought-iron detailing, Gladstone Street Image: Bexley house 7.JPG , Cottage with wrap-around verandahs and wrought-iron detailing, Harrow Road Image: Bexley house 6.JPG , Esperanza, Harrow Road

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bexley, New South Wales Bayside Council 1822 establishments in Australia Suburbs of Sydney Jewellery districts