Lalor Park 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 ...

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, in the state of

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. Lalor Park is located west of the

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in the

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of the

City of Blacktown Blacktown City Council is a Local government in Australia, local government area in Western Sydney, situated on the Cumberland Plain, approximately west of the Sydney central business district, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Esta ...

. Lalor Park is part of the

Greater Western Sydney Greater Western Sydney (GWS) is a large region of the metropolitan area of Greater Sydney, New South Wales (NSW), Australia that generally embraces the north-west, south-west, central-west, far western and the Blue Mountains sub-regions with ...

region. Lalor Park is commonly abbreviated as 'L.P'.

Population

According to the of Population, there were 7,834 people in Lalor Park. * Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people made up 3.8% of the population. * 63.8% of people were born in Australia. The most common other countries of birth were India 3.9%, Philippines 3.4%, New Zealand 2.2%, England 1.5% and South Korea 1.3%. * 64.6% of people only spoke English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Arabic 3.9%, Tagalog 2.0%, Punjabi 1.9%, Korean 1.7% and Tamil 1.5%. * The most common responses for religion were No Religion 26.0%, Catholic 25.1% and Anglican 11.0%.

Community Facilities

Lalor Park has a small but strong presence of community centres, which cluster around the Chiefly Reserve block along Freeman Street and include:
Lalor Park Public Library
- administered by Blacktown City Council
Lalor Park Community Garden
- an outdoor garden run by volunteers
Creative Groundz Art Studio
- run by Danielle RG, the artist of the colourful mural paintings that decorate the walls of Lalor Park Library and the nearby shops
Lalor Skate Park
- a small outdoor skatepark and neighboring playground

Commercial areas

Serving the primarily residential suburb of Lalor Park is an outdoor shopping precinct with a few dozen retailers and small businesses, located at the junction of Northcott Road and Freeman Street. Although the exterior walls of the buildings were vandalised, the graffiti has since been covered by murals painted by Danielle RG of Creative Groundz and Nathan Marshall of Common Groundz Cafe.

Education

Lalor Park is the location of a number of educational institutions including:
Lalor Park Preschool
- A community based preschool
Lalor Park Public School
- K-6 public primary school founded in 1959
St Bernadette's Primary
- systemic Catholic K-6 Primary School founded 1960 by the Sisters of St Joseph
Kids' Early Learning Lalor Park
owned and operated by Blacktown City Council

Sport

Lalor Park Kookaburras Rugby League Club was established in 1959. They compete in the Parramatta Junior Rugby League. The club's colours are blue, brown and white. Home ground for the Kookaburras is Cavanagh Reserve (Venn Ave, Lalor Park). Lalor Park juniors that have played 1st grade in Australia include Mick Delroy, Feleti Mateo and Jorge Taufua and Brett Delaney.

Transport

The suburb is served by the Blacktown-Parklea branch of the

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and

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Seven Hills railway station.

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