Elizabeth Hills is a

suburb A suburb (more broadly suburban area) is an area within a metropolitan area. They are oftentimes where most of a metropolitan areas jobs are located with some being predominantly residential. They can either be denser or less densely populated ...

of western

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, in the state of

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. It is located 39 kilometres south-west of the

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, in the

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. Elizabeth Hills was gazetted as a suburb on 18 December 2009. Like the neighbouring suburb of

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, Elizabeth Hills had previously been part of the suburb of

Cecil Hills Cecil Hills is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Cecil Hills is located 38 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Liverpool and is part of the Greater We ...

History

Formerly farmlands, it is now a predominantly residential estate with housing developments mostly beginning in 2014. The suburb was named after Lady Elizabeth Wylde, the wife of the first landowner in the area who occupied and managed a farm situated at Cecil Hills from 1816 until her death in 1864.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census, there were 3,208 people in Elizabeth Hills. 56.1% of people were born in Australia. The next most common country of birth was Iraq at 16.9%. 34.7% of people spoke only English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 13.8%, Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 9.0% (for a total of 22.8% of Sureth speakers), Arabic 8.5%, Vietnamese 4.8% and Serbian 4.3%. The most common responses for religion were Catholic 43.6%, Buddhism 8.1%, No Religion 8.0%, Assyrian Apostolic 8.0% and Christian, nfd 7.3%.

Transport

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operates the 827 bus route with services to Liverpool via Bonnyrigg Heights, Green Valley and Heckenberg. It also has connections with the M7 Motorway with the nearby Cowpasture Road exit to the south, and the Elizabeth Drive exit to the north. A pathway in the suburb's west also provides pedestrian and cyclist access to the

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Schools

Cecil Hills High School, established in 1996, is just outside Elizabeth Hills's boundaries in

which serves as the main secondary school. Cecil Hills Public School is also nearby.

References

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