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Lalor Park

Field	Value
type	suburb
name	Lalor Park
city	Sydney
state	nsw
image	Lalor Park infobox pic.jpg
caption	Panorama of Lalor Park's central hub, with the community precinct on the left side of Freeman street, and the shopping district with its carpark on the right side
alternative_location_map	Australia NSW metro Sydney
pushpin_map_caption	Location in metropolitan Sydney
coordinates
local_map	yes
zoom	13
lga	Blacktown
postcode	2147
pop	7,834
pop_year
pop_footnotes
elevation	60
stategov	Winston Hills
stategov2	Blacktown
fedgov	Greenway
near-nw	Blacktown
near-n	Kings Langley
near-ne	Kings Langley
near-w	Blacktown
near-e	Seven Hills
near-sw	Blacktown
near-s	Seven Hills
near-se	Seven Hills
dist1	35
dir1	west
location1	Sydney CBD

Lalor Park is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Lalor Park is located 35 km west of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of the City of Blacktown. Lalor Park is part of the Greater Western Sydney 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 Community Garden, where numerous kinds of fruits, vegetables, and flowers are cultivated by volunteers

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,Luke Lewis,Feleti Mateo, Jorge Taufua and Brett Delaney.

On the 16/11/25 it was announced that after 66 years the Lalor Park Kookaburras Junior Rugby League Club was ceasing operations immediately as no committee could be formed to lead the club into the future.

Transport

The suburb is served by the Blacktown-Parklea branch of the North-West T-way and Sydney Trains Seven Hills railway station.

References

{{Census 2021 AUS
Vella, Joanne. (9 May 2014). "Danielle Rawnsley-Galistan calls for locals to participate in documentary about Lalor Park".

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