Lurnea, New South Wales

Infobox Australian Place | type = suburb
name = Lurnea
city = Sydney
state = nsw


caption =
lga = City of Liverpool
postcode = 2170
pop = 7500 (2006)
est =
area =
propval =
stategov = Macquarie Fields
fedgov = Werriwa
near-nw = Cartwright
near-n = Liverpool
near-ne = Liverpool
near-w = Prestons
near-e = Liverpool
near-sw = Prestons
near-s = Casula
near-se = Casula
dist1 = 35
dir1 = west
location1= Sydney

Lurnea is a suburb of Sydney in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Lurnea is located 35 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Liverpool.

History

Lurnea was originally home to the Cabrogal people who spoke the Darug language. Following British settlement of the area in the 1800s it was given the name Hillview which persisted until after World War I when the land was converted into a soldier settlement which provided the soldiers with enough room for a house and a small farm. It was renamed Lurnea which means "a resting place". In the 1970s the area was redeveloped again into a residential suburb which this time became home to a number of veterans from the Vietnam War. [ "The Book of Sydney Suburbs", Compiled by Frances Pollon, Angus & Robertson Publishers, 1990, Published in Australia ISBN 0-207-14495-8, page 159 ]

Transport

Hoxton Park Road runs along the northern edge of Lurnea providing access to Liverpool as well as suburbs to the west of Lurnea such as Hoxton Park. It also has relatively easy access to the M5 South Western Motorway to the city and the Westlink M7 to the northwest of Sydney. Lurnea is well serviced by Busabout bus routes with five services passing through the suburb and another three along Hoxton Park Road on the northern edge. [cite web | url= http://www.busabout.com.au/HTML/NetworkMap.html | title=Busabout Network Map | publisher=Busabout | accessdate=2008-04-19 ]

chools

Lurnea High School

Population

Lurnea's population at the 2006 Australian census was 7462, with 55.1% born in Australia, followed by those born in Lebanon 5.7%, New Zealand 2.0%, Fiji 1.9%, Italy 1.8% and Iraq 1.8%. English was stated as the only language spoken at home by 46.4% of persons and the most common languages other than English spoken at home were Arabic 17.5%, Vietnamese 2.7%, Spanish 2.5%, Italian 2.5% and Hindi 2.1%. The religious affiliations responses were Catholic 29.1%, Islam 17.9%, Anglican 18.7%, No Religion 6.1% and Eastern Orthodox 6.0%. The median household income of $743 per week is lower than the national average ($1027) while the rent and mortgage repayments are slightly higher than average.Census 2006 AUS | id = SSC11613 | name = Lurnea (State Suburb) | quick = on | accessdate = 2008-04-21]

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